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Design and Analysis of ERP-Sales Order Processing for Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs)
Gayathri Singaravel, M. Jeevanantham
Department of year Information Technology, Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
ABSTRACT
Organization receives lots of benefits by using enterprise resource planning. This can be applied both in small and
medium enterprises (SMEs). ERP implementation cost makes the SMES unable to procure the system. Even if
can implement the system it requires expertise for handling the software, hardware, nor ERP system infrastructure.
In order to overcome this problem and to make the implementation and maintenance easily by SMEs we perform
analysis and design of an ERP system in this paper. This paper focus only on the sales area which is one of the
main business functions. Finally the research yields a generic process model of the ERP system for SMEs in the
area of sales business function.
Keywords: ERP, sales processing, SMEs, sales function, web services.
IJSRSET151130 | Received: 1 Feb 2015 | Accepted: 9 March 2015 | March-April 2015 [(1)2: 71-75] 71
typical ERP system should at least have the following IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY
features:
Componentized- different business
In this research, waterfall process model is used in the
functionalities are designed as different
components. development of ERP system. Planning, analysis and
Integrated- components are integrated and design of the ERP system are the stages carried out
seamless data flow between components during the research.
allows them to collaborate as aone function.
A. ERP Technology
Flexible-system is expandable and compatible
with the old systems, the change to the Initially, ERP systems were used for simple functions
business processes and strategies are easy to such as accounting and human resources planning. ERP
fulfil. systems are later developed as sutie of application with
Real-time- the components work in real time, the advent of web technologies. The technology which
online, and batch processing modes should be has the major impact on ERP systems are web service
available.
and extensible markup language (XML).
Profitable-system must have the potential to
reduce the cost or increase profit, since these
are a company’s basic requirements and B. Web Services
motivations.
Integration made easy and the cost is reduced by the use
Secured- security schema has to be enforced to
protect various enterprise resources regardless of web services. Information can be accessed by the
whether it is appropriate or sufficient. client without going through ERP software. Therefore,
with the use of web services and the composition of web
The business logic in ERP system employs client/server services, clients as well as outsourcing vendors can
architecture to create a distributed computing access many of the ERP application seamlessly.
environment. Generally, the three-tier architecture will Checking bank accounts, placing orders and other
be used, which contains three layers of logic:
services also included in this application. Client can
1. Presentation layer (front): a unified graphical user communicate with legacy ERP software through web
interface (GUI) or browser that collects input, services which reduce the cost of the system. SAP offers
generates requests, and returns the results back to this hub through mySAP and oracle via its e-business
the user. suite.
2. Application layer (middle): application programs
that collect the requests from the presentation layer
and process the requests based on the business rules, C. Security in ERP
functions, or logics. Numerous industries like defence, intelligence, medical,
3. Database layer (back): DBMS that manages the and financial industries uses this ERP systems which
operational and business data throughout the whole
leads to critical environment in providing security. First,
enterprise and the user access to this information.it
may also include the operating system and the we need to develop a security policy and a model for
related hardware. ERP systems. Confidentiality is the main aspects of the
security which is mainly focused by the current system.
D. Design
To model the design of the ERP system we use object
oriented approach. The data requirements for the ERP
D. Payment Out
Fig 3.Sales Activities (2) Business Process
IV. CONCLUSION