Suppose there is a company that does all the work manually and has a particular system in each department. After spending a period of time, they wanted to automate all the company's functions and operations, and they decided to apply the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to their organization. Why did they determine to use the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system instead of manually working?

Read the case scenario You walk into your office one morning and see an article on your desk. You pick it up and realize that the President and CEO placed it there! She also has some questions on a post-it note and a request for recommendations.   Alexandria Marvel was exhausted. She had just finished a long meeting with her current VP of Headquarter Operations, Michael Brown. Michael, who was getting ready for retirement, gave her a rundown of a recent crisis that impacted the company. While the dust seemed to be settling, Alexandria recognized that this was one of the worst things to happen to the company. Michael recalls the crisis in the following way:  “On the morning of January 19th, I got a call from Joanne Edwards, my contact at our major distributor, Happy and Healthy Foodmart. She told me that three of her customers had complained that LSN’s echinacea had made them ill. I called our legal department immediately to put them on alert.  By noon that day, the number of reported…

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Major operations and supply planning activities can be grouped into categories based on the relevant time range of the activity. Into what time range category does sales and operations planning i t?