Date: 14th April, 2008
Week 4
Q.2 Read the Sumner (2005) case study on pages 52 – 56. Address the following questions: b. What advantages would an ERP provide to Wingate Electric? What other options does Wingate Electric have instead of adopting an ERP?
My response:
In the case of Wingate Electric the organization is struggling with data redundancy and also facing trouble to make queries into its’ database to prepare reports and their entire system is not integrated at all. However, Wingate Electric is willing to move into the e-commerce environment to cope up with the company’s competitors. In a situation like this, adopting an ERP system will help the company get rid of the problems it has at the moment and benefit Wingate with e-commerce and all other aspects of its’ business process.
1.An ERP system can provide integration for the whole business process of Wingate Electric. ERP can bring the finance, sales, payroll and stock available etc. departments all together and the different departments can share data amongst them without requesting or waiting for each other to respond.
2.If an ERP system is adopted by Wingate Electric it can make the database make changes or update in a real time environment. Which will provide updated information to everyone related to the company and save them from receiving invalid data about its products. However, this is very important when the company will be operating in an e-commerce environment.
3.ERP system can definitely make it easier for the company to pass queries to the database and help it to prepare standard reports without spending too much time.
4.With the help of an ERP system Wingate will be able to reduce its’ business cycle time and do their business more efficiently and maximize profit.
5.However, ERP can also allow Wingate Electric to do re-engineering of their business process if the decision makers of the organization consider that appropriate for their business.
