| dc.description.abstract | As business competition escalates over the years, adoption of information systems, efficiently collect, accumulate and analyze accurate data, to assist operations managerial decisions, have become the basic needs of many companies. However, many companies often faced with the challenges of upgrading their information systems. Smooth transition to a new system, achieving intended integrations becomes a real problem.
This study focuses on Conglomerate K, which is multi-national company with production operations in many countries. It has several subsidiaries in different countries, regulated by different set of laws and regulations, with employees from different cultural backgrounds, and operates in areas with different socio-economical settings. It is facing the problem of upgrading its information system to SAP ERP system, and hopes to operate on a single system. Thus, system transition becomes an important problem. Based on the lessons learnt from previous system implementation projects, including the first stage introduction of SAP to its headquarters, this study attempts to derive at a procedure by which the system can be rollout to all subsidiaries. Various internal and external factors are considered, and the objective is to reduce the risk of failure. A set of rollout guidelines is proposed. | en_US |