Ebusiness Tool Review

The purpose of this paper is to research e-business processes for Pyxis Medical Manufacturing Company. Pyxis produces medical equipment and related accessories required for support. Pyxis is familiar with e-commerce solutions as it does conduct some e-business with its vendors. To date Pyxis has not implemented any e-business oriented solutions with its direct customers. The company plans to increase sales by adding the ability to sell its products to hospitals on-line. The Pyxis goal is to increase sales by 15% using these e-business processes and decrease raw materials costs by 10% in 2006 through efficient supply change management. Pyxis is on track to increase internal efficiency by implementing an ERP tool. Focus will be on decreasing cycle time of human resource functions and increasing the effectiveness of inventory management. EBusiness solutions for Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management and Customer Relationship Management will be investigated. Two solutions for each of these solution types will be identified and reported on. Pyxis is a mid-sized firm of 5,000 people with offices in the United States as well as the UK, France, Africa and South America. The company is supported by a network of 6,000 PCs that are connected to corporate Mainframes in the United States. In summary Pyxis hopes to show decreased costs and integrate systems wherever possible.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the PYXIS Medical company will be a major effort on the Information Technology (IT) Department. Our manufacturing of X-Ray machines and accessories in five different countries has presented the company with some logistics challenges.

The initial task is to review two software products that would resolve the company’s current challenges. The project team has selected two packages for review, PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne and SAP Business One. Either of these packages are capable of handling the various locations and current challenges the company faces. Presented here will be a review of the two ERP software packages.

PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne

PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne ERP software is one solution to the current company pains. These company pains include increasing the effectiveness of inventory management, being able to view customer profiles/orders/shipment information at other locations, and decreasing the cycle time’s in human resource functions. With these goals in mind, the project team has reviewed the PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne ERP software as a solution.

Features

The PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne