Implementation Plan of an ERP Across the organization over a period of 6 years. 6-12 months for each implementation Sequence of implantation locations Manufacturing‚ final assembly and services facilities related to manufacturing are a priority since they are the ones that involve in the most pressing business developments and highest cost. Sequence of implementation tasks and issues: 1- Creating ownership through vision creation and user preparation One of the big lessons learned
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Whirlpool Europe: Case 2 Whirlpool Europe’s implementation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a positive business investment. One of the biggest challenges that Whirlpool Europe faces is a disconnect in the information systems. This disconnect has led to a decrease in product availability‚ loss in sales‚ and an unreasonably high inventory. A new system will allow Whirlpool Europe to improve operating effectiveness and efficiency. The cost of implementation of the ERP is quite
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Whirlpool Europe Analysis Please answer the following question about the NPV analysis: 1. What are the key assumptions of this analysis? Average salary per employee is equal to 100k and a number of participating employees which has 50 employees per each of the 4 waves. The consulting cost is that 15400 per month._ 2. The current NPV is negative. One way to save money would be to reduce consulting costs. Please set the average consulting cost per month in cell b33 to $5000. At
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1. What are the current challenges facing Bombardier? 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
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study highlights Whirlpool Corporation - Europe plans to evaluate project Atlantic‚ with emphasis on capital budgeting. Project Atlantic is an investment in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that would streamline business processes across all European regions and reorganize the information flow throughout the company. The objective of the case is to determine whether or not Whirlpool Corporation should adopt a planned ERP project in Europe – project Atlantic. Whirlpool & Project Atlantic
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Whirlpool Europe Case Case one involved Whirlpool Corporation‚ which is the worldwide leader in the home appliance industry. The company joined the European market in 1989‚ and grew in market share over the next ten years. In 1999‚ the vice president of logistics and the chief financial officer thought about investing in an enterprise resource planning system. This system was known as Project Atlantic. The purpose of this new system was to re-organize the information flow of the entire company
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Financial Management fin855 Whirlpool Europe Case Report Date: March 2nd‚ 2015 The benefits proposed in the case are all reasonable. Half reduction in potential optimal DSI improvement is neither too optimistic‚ nor too conservative. The forecasting on profit margin is based on sales increase. As a benefit resulted from economies of scale enhance‚ but not from products upgrading‚ the limited .25% gross margin improvement is quite reasonable. Together with that‚ if the ERP system can be effective as
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technologies such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems‚ even with a lack of human and financial resources to support such initiatives. Similar to all the other different technological progress‚ ERP systems were primarily implemented mostly at large enterprises. However there are potential benefits in adoption of ERP by SMEs‚ which has increased the consciousness and the positive opinion. Due to this saturation of ERP in large enterprises ERP vendors are now focusing mainly on SMEs‚ this helps
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Issues posed to ERP Implementation Projects in Manufacturing or Public Sector Organisations Vinoraj Selvaraj School of Computer and Information Science University of South Australia Mawson Lakes‚ Australia Email: selvy003@mymail.unisa.edu.au Abstract ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation is regarded as complex‚ cumbersome and costly‚ and‚ very often‚ it exceeds the initial estimated resources. The process involves a thorough examination of the business processes in
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