Caitlin Vodopia
11/22/2010
Vandelay Industries, Inc.
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Vandelay decided to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system,
specifically the R/3 system from SAP AG, in an effort to end the existing
fragmentation of its systems, allow process standardization across the corporation,
and give it a competitive advantage over its rivals.
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Vandelay manufactured and distributed industrial process equipment used in the
production of rubber and latex
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Each of the eight Vandelay plants had selected its own systems for manufacturing
resource planning (MRP), forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, and even
human resource information systems. This patchwork of systems added time and
expense to the production schedule in the following ways:
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Scheduling – manual entry at the beginning of the week, no other inputs
allowed during the week
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Forecasting – plants could decide when to produce the demand within a
month, even though customer orders were specified to certain weeks, resulting
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