Erp System Implementation in Fmcg Sector

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an integrated set of subsystems that integrates all facets of the business, including planning, manufacturing and logistics, sales and marketing. ERP systems are originated to serve the information needs of manufacturing companies. Over time though, they have grown to serve other industries, including financial services, customer good sector, supplier chain management and human resource sector. With this growth, ERP systems, which first ran on mainframes before migrating to client or server systems, are now migrating to the Web and include numerous applications. ERP is a product that helps automate a company's business processes by employing an integrated user interface, an integrated data set, and an integrated code set. ERP provides two major benefits that do not exist in non-integrated departmental systems: (1) a unified enterprise view of the business that encompasses all functions and departments; and (2) an enterprise database where all business transactions are entered, recorded, processed, monitored and reported [1]. This unified view increases the requirement for, and the extent of, interdepartmental cooperation and coordination. ERP systems are complex and implementing one can be a challenging, time-consuming and expensive project for any company [2]. ERP provides numerous promising functions – such as integration and automation of business processes, promoting common practices, sharing data across the organization, and providing real-time access to the information [3, 4]. Integration of ERP systems with legacy systems is more complex than the integration of ERP modules and integration of e-business applications. It routinely requires the installation of third-party interface software for communication between ERP software systems and legacy systems [5]. Implementation of ERP is a complex exercise, and many adopters have encountered