This report is about the ERP systems at Pakistan Railways

1. ENTERPRISE RESOURSE PLANNING

2. ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP):
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business
management software that allows an organization to
use a system of integrated applications to manage.
• ERP software integrates all facets of an operation,
including development, manufacturing, sales and
marketing business. ERP systems is a shared
database that supports multiple functions used by
different business units.

3. BENEFITS:
• Streamlining processes and workflows with a single
integrated system.
• Reduce redundant data entry and processes and in other
hand it shares information across the department.
• Establish uniform processes that are based on recognized
best business practices.
• Improved workflow and efficiency.

4. • Improved customer satisfaction based on on-time delivery,
increased quality, shortened tickets delivery time.
• Reduced inventory costs resulting from better planning,
tracking and forecasting of requirements.
• Provide a consolidated picture of sales, inventory and
receivables to respective people only
• Provide immediate access to enterprise information
• Reduce risk

5. IMPLEMENTATION TIME OR ERP:
• An ERP system up and running can take approximately six
months to 2 years as it took to Pakistan railways. The time
frame depends on the size of the business and the complexity of
the system to be implemented.
• For a mid-sized business, implementation shouldn’t take much
more than six months if everything goes according to plan since
Pakistan Railways is a giant organization linked up through out
the country so its implementation took a longer time than usual
• Just like implementation costs, implementation time frames vary
widely based upon size and sophistication of the organization

6. ERP PROVIDING A SOLUTION TO
PAKISTAN RAILWAYS:
• Integrate financial information
• Portability
• Integrate customer order information
• Reliability:

7. • Usability:
• Correctness:
• Standardize HR information
• Flexibility:
• Maintainability
• Security

8. ERP AND BUSINESS:
• ERP fitting in business environment.
• ERP software will change their one of important business
process.
• Company can change their business process according to
ERP or they can change the ERP software according to their
business process.

9. FAILURES OF ERP:
• Employees of the Pakistan
Railways think that the
better methods are used in
ERP.
• Customization makes the
software more unstable and
harder to maintain.
• Changing people’s habits
will be easier than
customization.

10. HIDDEN COST OF ERP:
• Pakistan Railways underestimate cost while implementing ERP.
• Real cost while implementing ERP.
• Examples of hidden cost: Customization, Consultation, Data
analyst, and Integration & Testing.

11. REAL COST OF ERP:
• The original cost of the ERP for implementing ERP.
• The cost which Pakistan Railways cannot underestimate as
without these cost ERP cannot be implemented.
• Hardware, Software, Training, Reengineering and Data
conversation are the examples of real cost.

12. CONFIGURING ERP:
• Century Old.
• Manually.
• Culture.

14. ERP AND E-COMMERCE:
Two Different Departments:
• Customers.
• Business.
• Difficult Aspects.

15. IMPORTANCE OF ERP:
• Coordinating, Integrating, Quality.
• Information in real Time.
• Communication Gap is Reduced.
• Changes the way of doing Business.