Case Study: ERP Implementation
The Business Issue
A growing manufacturing company struggles to gain true business intelligence from it’s MRP applications. The current solutions are not integrated. Reporting is difficult and undependable. The application is not flexible but restrictive.
Our Approach
- Meet with key management and stakeholders and define the ‘Hotspots’ and problems with the current solutions.
- Gather complete system requirements for a better integrated solution.
- Consolidate and integrated several different applications to share information, provide consistent data from reports.
- Redesign and develop key features that introduce flexibility into the application.
How It Worked
- In identifying the ‘Hotspots’, Management gained a clearer picture of process problems that were unrelated to the application.
- Requirement gathering sessions produced features and functionality that help the company gain efficiency and value.
- Better reporting help the company gain business intelligence which is reflected in the companies profitability.
The Technology
- Customized ERP/MRP application
- Tuned and optimized SQL
- Ingres Relational Databases
- High performance Sun/Solaris Servers
- Hitachi SAN Disk System