sales declined. Executives in the company have been considering many options to improve its earnings. One of the options is to implement an ERP solution to provide the holistic view of the company’ s performance, such as its supply chain, marketing effectiveness, customer services, and so on. Your main task is to find and quantify an ERP solution for this company, and help the management team establish a project plan to implement your solution. You need to consider its organizational maturity and in-house skill sets since it is not a technology company. You also need to evaluate new technologies that can accelerate the implementation with less cost. Since this company does not have a formal project management office, you need to develop a project plan to demonstrate the key tasks, milestones, expected timelines, deliverables, and high-level cost and resources plans. As part of the assignment, you need to include the project charter and conduct a return on investment( ROI) analysis. Finally, you need to construct a systems architecture that shows the interactions among the ERP modules and other existing applications / systems.
Section 1: Written ERP Solution
Write a ten to fifteen( 10-15) page paper in which you:
Conduct a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats( SWOT) analysis to identify the values of using ERP solutions as a way to turn around this company.