Introduction To ERP

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Outline

 What is ERP
 ERP Vendors
 ERP Modules
 Implementation Methodologies
 Types of Oracle E-Business Projects
 Roles in E-Business Projects
 Tools for E-Business Suite
 Documentation Methodology in E-Business Suite

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What is ERP

 ERP : Enterprise Resource Planning

 Software application to maintain enterprise resources
 Enterprise – A bigger organization
 Resources - People , Money, Machinery, Documents etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning

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 ERP Vendors
Vendor Product Name Cloud/OnPremise
Oracle E-Business Suite OnPremise
Oracle Cloud/Fusion ERP Cloud
Workday Workday Cloud
Microsoft MS Dynamics OnPremise
Infor Infor Cloud
Coupa Coupa Cloud
Ariba Ariba Cloud
SAP S/4 Hana Cloud/OnPremise
SAP SAP Business One OnPremise

Cloud – SaaS(Software as Service) – Hardware and Software managed by Vendor Subscription based pricing

OnPremise- Hardware maintained by client, software provided by Vendor – licensed based only on the software
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subscription
ERP Modules

 What is Module ?
 Focused on one area of business process
 Ex : HCM (Human Capital Management)
 SCM (Supply Chain Management)
 FIN – Financials
 CRM- Customer Relationship Management
 PLM- Product LifeCycle Management
 And many more..etc

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Implementation Methodologies

 Below are the Software Development LifeCycle Approaches (SDLC)

 Waterfall
 The waterfall model is a project management methodology based on a
sequential design process.
 Hybrid-Agile
 Agile methodology is an iterative process where each stage follows N
number of sprints of the same iterative cycle. A perfect agile process
allows increased development speed, lowers cost, and quick
resolutions of defects whereas the hybrid agile framework is a blend
of the waterfall and agile methodology.

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Types of Oracle E-Business Projects

 Implementation
 Upgrade
 Rollout
 Support

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Roles in E-Business Projects

 Technical
 Functional
 Techno-Functional
 DBA

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 Tools for E-Business Suite
Component Type Tool Programming Purpose
Language
Reports(RDF) Oracle Report Builder SQL/PLSQL Business Communication
Reports
Reports(XML Publisher) Oracle Template SQL/PLSQL/XML Business Communication
Builder For Word Reports
Interfaces SQL SQL/PLSQL/ To integrate with boundary
Developer/TOAD/SOAP SQLLoader systems
UI
Conversions SQL Developer/TOAD SQL/PLSQL To upload data

Extensions Oracle Form SQL/PLSQL/Java Extending the seeded

Developer/JDeveloper functionality
Workflow Oracle Workflow Business Process
Builder Approval/Information
Forms Oracle Form Builder SQL/PLSQL UI Pages Design/Extension

OAF JDeveloper SQL/PLSQL/Java UI Pages Design/Extension

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Documentation Methodology
in E-Business Suite
 AIM – Application Implementation Methodology
 Approach for implementing Oracle Applications
 OUM – Oracle Unified Method
 Oracle Unified Method (OUM), first released
by Oracle Corporation in 2006, is a standards-
based method with roots in the Unified Process (UP). OUM is
business-process and use-case driven and includes support for
the Unified Modeling Language (UML), though the use of UML is
not required.

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