NIBCO's “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation

NIBCO's “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation

Introduction

NIBCO Inc. is a private manufacturing company situated at Elkhart, Indiana. The company had 3000 employees employed within the organization, and the company earned revenues of $461 in a year. The vast structure of the organization and the requirement for better management of business activities created a need for the implementation of ERP software and related activities to be involved within the organization. A brief discussion about the implementation of ERP and its effects is presented as follows.

Reasons behind NIBCO's Decision to Implement an ERP System

The basic reasons for implementing ...