You have been appointed as a consultant to a small manufacturing company that is planning to select an ERP software vendor. The company has 300 employees spread across India, Germany, and UK.

Select three prominent ERP Vendors and visit their websites to find information on the following. (SAP should be one of the vendors and compared with the other 2 vendors (The other 2 vendors should be anyone excluding MS dynamics and ORACLE))
a. The business functional areas their product support.
b. The Product's industry focus and what size of business their product supports.
c. The average cost of the product or any license fee per seat.
d. How long the vendor has been in business.
e. Any other critical information on the vendor.

Use a table to present the preceding information in a written report to the top management of the company with your recommendations for a product. Please make sure to justify your decision.

In addition, one of the board members of the company has some doubts about the usefulness of ERP. You are required to provide answers to the following questions as well.
1. The board member is of the opinion that ERP does not suit every business and as such the investment is unnecessary.
2. Running and implementing the ERP will be difficult and there are chances that the whole project will fail.

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Ans All functional areas of the company are sales marketing finance accounting customer service human resources research and development manufacturing and distribution The six functional areas of corp... View the full answer