dc.description.abstract | Mergers and acquisitions have become a trend how enterprises expend. Taiwan’s IC design industry, which plays an important role on the upstream of the supply chain of electronics industry, cannot avoid the trend. The purpose of mergers and acquisitions is to combine and amplify the strength of multiple companies. By sharing technology, information, market, capital, and human resources, mergers and acquisitions can increase production capacity, decrease the operating cost, and enhance competitiveness.
After mergers and acquisitions, enterprise often suffers from the chaos caused by the conflict of different management styles, groups of employees, and computer systems from former companies. In order to optimize the effect of mergers and acquisitions, it is an important management task to integrate two different ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems into one new system, which keeps the strength and eliminates the weakness of the former systems. ERP system integration is a key to management after merger because it will also integrate purchasing, production, sales and distribution, import and export, and other operation cycles of the former companies. As the result, it will maximize the efficiency of operation and improve management.
This research is based on Leavitt (1965) diamond model, and then analyzed and discussed by F’s corporation from the task, people, technology and structure dimensions to understand the difficulties encountered in the implementation of ERP and its problem-solving strategies, cognitive and consolidate its benefits, conclude its critical success factors, achieve the corporation′s strategic objectives, and create maximum profit.
The four elements in the diamond model - task, people, technology, and structure – are interdependent. As the result, an enterprise must consider how each element will affect others when management makes overall strategy. When changes occur in one element, it is necessary to consider how to make corresponding changes in other three elements in order to ensure the positive outcomes of ERP system integration.
Keywords: Enterprise Resource Planning, Diamond Model, Key Success Factors | en_US |