Answer (1) if a business do not want to change its business processs it cant gain a value from Erp systemtherefore the business will experience wastage of thier time and fundings. They wil not make any profit because they have spent miliions of dollars buying this erp system. Also if they donot apply this system within the organisation thereis no point of thinking about improvements in the future. They will also experience another risk which is there resources such as information about the system,money,time will be a big wastage,if the business donot use the Erp system and get benefit from it. Also implementation costs wil be a big burden for tehm because they send most of there time and resources behind installing the new system within the organisation.
Answer (2) The best of breed approach tends to forcus on the buyers prospectives. it acquires inforamtion about buying differnt things from different sellers according to their need. On the other hand an Erp system is a much more efficient way to communicate with buyers and sellers. It tends to focus on a one stop approach to collect all the things a business needs.
The advantages of best of breed and Erp system are that the best of breed system has various product ranges according to the needs many different business,the system is easy install and can be easily used by any user and the vendors offer various products in order to meet differnt needs for this system to various businesses which is in need of the system.on the other hand and Erp system provides a one stop shop apporch for all businesses so that they can collect any item they want by contacting only one vendor who has all the products,Erp firms can make a profit by understanding waht oppurtunities arise within there surroundings and expolict them for the good of the company and the companies also offer a wide range of services to other companies.
The disadvantages of both systems are that the Erp system takes time to be implemented and when it comes to selling parts of the system to a business sellers can get confused because of the various product ranges because some of the things will not be needed by the business for that system. The best of breed system has disadvantages of not having a favourable seeler on the side of a business, if the seller cannot please the business with the range of proudcts and the system has interface problems as the right interface is hard to choose.
Additional things to keep in mind is cost which is acrucial element to consider when it comes to decide which system the business wants to choose in order to improve its processes. Alo the business needs to consider implementation costs in order to calculate how many parts of the system will be installed within the organisation.
