Erp Implementation

They faced challenges from acquiring many companies because during the acquisitions Bombardier inherited the data, processes and systems of each company which created inefficiencies. Systems didn’t communicate with each other resulting in low inventory turns and price inconsistency. This was not productive for Bombardier and was time consuming for the employees. The biggest problem was the low visibility of inventory and the lack of communication between systems. Bombardier had now a global presence but was not organized to maintain growth without changing the vision and processes. Another challenge is resistance to change, this factor can have a huge impact on the new vision and

The case shows the implementation of SAP ERP solution in NIBCO, a manufacturer of pipe and fittings, a mid-size manufacturer with about 3,000 employees and revenue over 460 million USD. The company

What could have done otherwise to avoid the SAP AG’S R/3 ERP implementation failure at Hershey’s Food Corporation?

At this milestone of the project, I could have pushed the issue of the major change proposed by the Philippine Army, this new problem affected; project scope management, project time management, project time management, project human resources management, project risk management and project stakeholder management. However, the “Internal Customer” would have been upset and made life difficult on

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an international American corporation; its head officer is in San Jose, California. It works in designing, making, and selling networking tools. The Systems of Cisco was established in 1984 by Leonard Bosack , Richard Troiano, and Sandy Lerner.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an IT company that specializes in the selling of networking and communication products and services. It is a B2B company where they sell its products primarily to large enterprises and telecommunications service providers, but it also markets products designed for small businesses and consumers such as routers, modems, and home network management software. The products and services aim to transport data, voice and video communication within buildings and campuses as well as around the globe. The services include routing, switching, home networking internet protocol telephony, optical networking, security,

The company had been using a shared-services vision, where purchasing, finance, and information resources were provided via shared services that left the divisions with the customer-facing work. Therefore, Mead used the entire suite of SAP modules except human resources and installed a recent module, Advanced Optimization Planning (AOP), which handles all planning and scheduling. However, SAP was not the perfect solution as it unified the company, but it was a large and complex system and it required strict adherence to its rules. ERP was experimental in 1995; reverse auctions and Web applications were experimental in 2002. Implementing ERP has leveraged resources and central design and thus solved many of the problems and issues the company used to struggle with. ERP helped in easy decision-making as if a business unit wanted to make a change, they needed to have conversations with the others, in terms of what was good for the whole. "The answer might not be reached as quickly, but it is a more effective answer," states McGrane. Standardization and globalization has forced real business discussions to occur as well as

II. Proposed IT Solution: Identify the vendor and the system you selected to improve the process

1. Cisco suffered from inertia when an attempt was made to engage business management in selecting software for their individual areas, and/or agreeing to participate in the ERP implementation project. List and explain reasons why management would hesitate to become engaged in the IT process/project.

Because the managers understood the strong culture and history of the company, they structured the project carefully to create a change in thinking before creating a change in software. The methods they used to survey purchasing people, involve representatives from all areas of the company, understand the process, work with suppliers, and select an ERP provider to grow with company and its future needs. All of these components helped to reduce the risk of the project.

Whirlpool thought they were ready to go live with SAP until September 18, 1999. Whirlpool seemed to be making all the right moves, like dispatcher assignment, having centralized pricing, and vendor interfacing. Even the best laid plans don’t always work. Everything seemed to be going smoothly at first because there were only 1000 system users, once 4,000 users were on the system, performance deteriorated which lead to 4-8 weeks delivery delays to which some customer cancelled their order and went with a competitor. Whirlpool should never have gone live until they realized what impact the red flags

Cisco rapidly grew from a start-up to $500M global corporation by January, 1993 when the case begins with Pete Solvick, CIO of the company faced with the daunting task of upgrading its transaction systems and data warehouse. Cisco had exponential growth through the 1990s, averaging at one point an 80% compound annual growth rate while also accelerating new product development and introductions throughout its direct and indirect sales channels. Systems outages were becoming more common as were product shortcomings due to the IT systems supporting key processes becoming faulty and only partially operating the majority of the time. Clearly Cisco had outgrown its current transaction processes and data warehousing infrastructure.

While implementing a project it is imperative to have the commitment of the management and also employees, the employees were disgruntled as the project threatened their jobs, it would be advisable to avoid the project all together.

SAP stands for Systems Applications and products in Data processing. SAP was founded by five IBM colleagues at Germany in 1972. SAP is centralized enterprise management system which is also known as Enterprise resource planning (ERP), which can allow enterprise to track business and customer. SAP can help to reduce cost and improve resource across the business. It can provide end to end solution and sharing common information with employee.

To uphold a good relationship with them is the answer to minimise the risk. Thus, offering them the new integrated online system which will ease and simplify their deal, will be very advantageous.