Enterprise Resource Planning Is The Fruit Of The Hard Work

Introduction Some years ago, there had been a situation in the market that every Business Company or organization had faced the problem of sharing their data within their different trades of the company. And also the problem of integrating all the information into one base structure, which created a burning problem affecting the efficiencies of the organizations. Every organization was waiting to have an organized system which could save all their work and collaborate all the information and communicate among themselves. It was a situation of having a desperate need of new build system, which would improve their process. The complications aroused in every single business process i.e. from the start to end point of developing and delivering†¦show more content†¦But due to some factors like cost, time etc. it would not be possible. So, there could be some situations that it might fail due to miscellaneous reasons and bringing down the organization to an even more worse condition. Hershey’s chocolate factory Background It is one of the leading chocolate manufacturer in the North America. It is a very famous brand for chocolates that every child wants to have one. This chocolate business is started by Mr. Milton S Hershey in 1876 and was been established in the year 1894. According to the statistics the Hershey’s company contributes 80% of its sales for only chocolates and the remaining 20% on other products. This company products are sold almost all countries across the globe and also provides employment for around 16000 people. Goals The company has decided to implement ERP system to increase its efficiency and the management process in the year 1996, and after deciding on it they have given approval for the project â€Å"Enterprise21†. To implement the ERP system the company has selected the SAP’s R/3 ERP software, Manugistic’s Supply Chain Management software and Seibel’s CRM software and IBM global service to get integrated with these three systems which would be beneficial in bringing good output for the company. The recommend time for the company was 4 years and they did not listen to that and had no patience and ordered to do it in 2.5 years which made it more worse than the present, as the time was not sufficient to deliver