International Business Managment
...(Bangalore), Malaysia and South Africa (Cape Town). The company is headquartered at Liverpool (England). Their development centre for application is also situated at Liverpool. It caters to the food and flavour industry and primarily supplies flavours to the Alcohol, Confectionary, Dairy and Soft drinks industries. Due to diversification of businesses in the international markets with the motive of gaining economical and excellent ingredients, affordable and trained labour and infinite market area, the company has started facing problems pertaining to the control and co-ordination problems. Vast diversified networks believe in expansion in product portfolio through cost effectiveness. The concept of Enterprise Resource Planning can be implemented by Trafford to sustain their competitive advantage in local and global market. Thus the report looks at the feasibility of implementation of ERP at Trafford, its advantages and disadvantages with emphasis on cost benefit analysis.
Through this report an attempt is being made to bring to the notice of the broad members;
• Vital facts of implementing the ERP software at the Trafford Group.
• Analyses the advantages and disadvantages after implementation of ERP.
Several issues arising due to an extreme change in an organization need to be considered and sorted out. The aim of the report is the software systems, its hurdles to be considered by overcoming them for implementation for successive benefits. Report enlightens the procurement of ERP software and helps to plan and prepare the organisation for the implementation of the software using various tools such as TELOS and CBA. As this implementation is a vast investment for the Trafford Group, they should consider all the dimensions and problems with being overenthusiastic and making such a huge investment. Also it is suggested to use a few modules of Enterprise...
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