Is BPR Helping ERP or is ERP Helping BPR?




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Muhammad Nauman Habib
Professor, Pakistan

Is BPR Helping ERP or is ERP Helping BPR?

I am a PhD student and my area is BPR. I just want to know your expert opinion (just general) regarding the relationship of BPR and ERP.
It is a fact that BPR uses technology for efficiency however, I have come across that ERP is doing the same.
So my question is how are these two tools interrelated, and which one is helping the other?
Is BPR used to implement ERP or is ERP helping BPR?
 

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Djoki EWANE, Cameroon
 

BPR Helping ERP or ERP Helping BPR

1. Implementing an ERP system requires the company to have all its process properly organized, in order to have the ERP to function properly.
For example, in an industrial company, certain processes need to work in a specific interrelated way:
- Production requires raw materials and derives product demand from clients (sales).
- Production also implies maintenance, so there is a need for spare parts. That requires procurement.
While implementing an ERP, these processes must be realigned to fit with the system. Maintenance for instance, needs to reorganize and describe all the ranges of maintenance. If not, the system will not deliver its best as far as maintenance, spare parts procurement, and inventory management are concerned.
2. On the other hand, in order to implement a BPR initiative, supporting it with an ERP system is not a must, but it is a possibility.
Therefore, to answer your question, depending on the organization of your processes, ERP can oblige you to perform a BPR. But you can achieve a successful BPR improvement without using an ERP system.

 
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Muhammad Nauman Habib
Professor, Pakistan
 

Take ERP as a Part of BPR

@Djoki EWANE: Thank you for your kind insight. Here comes another question in my mind. If BPR is al... Sign up

 
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

Why ERP is Often not a Part of BPR

@Muhammad Nauman Habib: Indeed it seems logical from your viewpoint to have ERP as a part of 'the BP... Sign up

 
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Muhammad Nauman Habib
Professor, Pakistan
 

Why ERP is Often not a Part of BPR

@Jaap de Jonge (Editor): Agreed. However, if you go through BPR-research studies you will find that ... Sign up

 
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

Why BPR Respondents are IT People

@Muhammad Nauman Habib: Perhaps the business people are too busy and ask their IT person to do the p... Sign up

 
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Muhammad Nauman Habib
Professor, Pakistan
 

Why BPR Respondents are IT People

@Jaap de Jonge (Editor): Hahaha well that is not what we call CSR or ethics. I believe that might a... Sign up

 
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

Why BPR Respondents are IT People

Seriously, yes indeed that might affect the outcomes, but I think it is the reality in business / ma... Sign up

   

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