The first stage was implementation of the financials, followed by implementation of order management/ accounts receivables across the three divisions and the final was the global rollout of the project to subsidiaries in other regions of the world. .
Decision between Implementing in Stages or Going "Big Bang".
While implementing the enterprise resource planning system, organizations should be very careful in the decisions that they take. While planning on how to implement the enterprise resource-planning organizations should first consider implementation of the system in stages. This is important as organizations are dynamic and they have different departments with different functions. It also enables an organization to make modifications to the processes in the company to be able to suit the enterprise resource planning system. .
By starting with implementation of the system in stages, an organization is able to avoid the possible costs that may arise with changing processes of all branches of the organization where changes are required. After an organization has implemented the system in stages and it is verified that it is compatible with the processes in the organization, then it can make the decision to go "big bang.".
This happens where an organization decides to implement the enterprise resource planning in all the other regions in which it has subsidiaries. This is done to ensure that there is uniformity in the functions and procedures of the organization in all regions where it operates.
Assignment Question 2.
How did Tektronix manage the risks of ERP implementation?.
Tektronix had to manage the risks that were associated with the implementation of the enterprise resource planning system. One of the risks that the company faced was during the implementation of the order management/accounts receivables. For the company to be able to deal with the risk it had to conduct customization and for it to achieve this it had to deviate for the core principles, the call to deviate from the core principles of implementation and to customize the enterprise resource system was derived by two factors.