Abstract4Implementation of an ERP system in manufactur-
ing organization is closely related with customization of the
standard prototype of the system offered by a software house.
In case of manufacturing health-care products some additional
aspects to standard information circuits must be added. These
mean QC, ISO, FDA requested data should be processes paral-
lel to bookkeeping ones. In this paper the use of SAP Fiori in
the QC process in inbound logistic is presented. Adding SAP
Fiori to the existing SAP solution allows to create sociotechni-
cal informal group of the users having new key competences. It
allows to achieve some benefits measured with CBA method for
the organization. It was concluded that integrated IT systems
of ERP class may develop sociotechnical systems in organiza-
tions used them leading to re-engeneering processes and transi-
tion changes. A case study of changes inside a map of process of
the manufacturing health-care products plant is presented and
discussed.
I. INTRODUCTION
HE world is changing, and all manufacturing organiza-
tions want to be competitive and strictly focused on
customer demands and requirements (Kotler, 2007). The
customer wants to receive a product of better quality, faster
and cheaper. One of possible supports for managing organi-
zation fulfilling such demands is implementing the inte-
grated IT system of the ERP class. It will help managers to
take rational decisions based on optimization costs and a
profit, based on constant monitoring of a feed-back between
the initial values of a set of key performance indicators and
the received response from the surroundings being recog-
nized as the value created (Gospodarek, 2012).
T
There are some well-known ERP solutions for industrial
enterprises, like IFS, QAD, SAPS4/HANA, Oracle E-Busi-
ness Suite, (Kimberling, 2020). Each of them has some pros
and cons. There are some comparisons and rankings on the
Internet regarding functionality and operationality, e.g.,
<Top 10 ERP=
1
, The Top 14 Manufacturing ERP Systems in
2022
2
, Manufacturing ERP Software
3
, Best ERP Software
for Manufacturing Businesses
4
, and more. All of ERP sys-
tems must be customized and specifically implemented in
concrete organization, regarding to its map of processes and
the value chain. In all cases it is necessary to define what
1
https://www.top10erp.org/
2
https://tipalti.com/manufacturing-erp-software/
3
https://softwareconnect.com/manufacturing/
4
https://www.softwaresuggest.com/erp-software/manufacturing-industry
does it mean the ERP system, because the gap between
imagination how it should work from the user and the sup-
plier point of view may be the problem in proceeding with
the project realized the way using dedicated methodic ap-
proach.
A lot of specific solutions of implementations of the ERP
systems are available over the Internet. In this paper some
advantages of using the SAP Fiori tool
5
in the manufactur-
ing organization of healthcare scope is presented. SAP Fiori
is a design system that enables one to create business apps
with a consumer-grade user experience, turning casual users
into SAP experts with simple tools that run on any device
(e.g., tablets and smartphones). Implementation of the SAP
Fiori may be recognized as the reengineering process of the
ERP use. The users are deeply involved in process of modi-
fications its functionality and the distribution of knowledge
in the organization. It resembles the SECI model of knowl-
edge socialization (Takeuchi and Nonaka, 1995) and form-
ing a sociotechnical system STS (Mumford, 2006) realizing
the scrum idea (Takeuchi and Nonaka, 1986) during design
the modification (Ghosh & Sahney, 2010). This sociotechni-
cal informal structure inside the organization creates innova-
tive solutions of managing the related map of processes and
becomes the valuable VRIN
6
class human resources with
specific key competences
7
(Barney, 1995; Gospodarek,
2012).
The aim of this research is to prove that economic aspects
of introduction SAP Fiori are effective in increasing func-
tionality of the exploited integrated IT system. It is espe-
cially suitable for agile incremental, spiral variant of ex-
panding usability of the existing SAP system. This approach
involves the users into deep interactions with technology
what allows to form non formal STS increasing productivity
of the whole department.
II.THE ERP SYSTEM
The base model of ERP function in organizations is pre-
sented on the Figure 1. The system is understanding as the
tool of measurement the performance of the organization re-
garding influence of the surroundings on the economic
score. Feedback is the base for time-depending comparisons
5
https://www.sap.com/products/fiori.html
6
VRIN 3 Valuable, Rare, In-imitable, Non-substitutable (The term
derived from the resource based theory).
7
https://embapro.com/frontpage/vrioanalysis/6661-discrimination-job
SAP Fiori as a Cause of Innovation and Sociotechnical System
Maciej Suder
High Banking School in Wroclaw ul. Fabryczna 29/31,
53-609 Wroclaw, Poland
Email: maciej.suder@wsb.wroclaw.pl
Tadeusz Gospodarek
High Banking School in Wroclaw ul. Fabryczna
29/31, 53-609 Wroclaw, Poland
Email: tadeusz.gospodarek@wsb.wroclaw.pl
Communication Papers of the of the 17
th
Conference on Computer
Science and Intelligence Systems pp. 287–291
DOI: 10.15439/2022F152
ISSN 2300-5963 ACSIS, Vol. 32
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