Assign [ppt will be submitted]

1. Submit a document regarding ERP systems of the selected domains containing following content
2. Key ERP vendors of that domain( max 3)
3. Generic Business Process of the domain and Specifically Business Process carried out in any one
of the vendor solution
4. Users of the ERP system
5. Key modules in the ERP System

The assignment with better content and discussion will be graded better. Relative marking will be
utilized.

Q2:KEY ERP vendors:

1. SAP

2. ORACLE

3. SIEBEL

Q3:Generic Business Process of the domain and Specifically Business Process carried out in any one of
the vendor solution

How SAP Helped Cadbury’s to Improve:

1. Almost 11000 employees started sending data to company’s SAP solution which was linked to
1750 applications.

2. after the installation of a new SAP ERP system Cadbury led to an excess of chocolate bars
building up at the end of 2005.

3. SAP also provides financial planning and human resources (HR) systems, called ERP Financials
and ERP Human Capital Management respectively.

4. SAP’s ERP software, consists of numerous modules.

Cadbury’s Reason’s For Adapting ERP System:

1. The point of adopting to ERP system was to bring complete integration to all the
major processes
 2. The major processes such as finance system, human resource and other
departments were functioning in a completely de centralized way.

3. ERP served as an integrating system and provided a solution to their

currently/existing decentralized model.

Cadbury’s Advantages After Implementing ERP:

1. The implementation of ERP brought in a new way of warehouse management systems and
brought in structure to the branch offices and depots.

2. While implementing the ERP systems, the company has built it on the past strengths of the
company thereby not loosing out its competitive.

Cadbury’s Pre-Implementation Of An ERP System:

1. The implementation process in India started from scratch as they were the first to implement
that in all over global application of the Cadbury.

2. Cadbury had many branch and manufacturing operations; each had their own systems which
were running independently in isolation. The department common to all was the finance
department.

3. ERP served as an integrating system for the Cadbury’s and was a solution for their existing
decentralized model.

4. While implementing the ERP, Cadbury’s had trained few of their young professionals who were
open to new and creative ideas and up to date with the technologies and the software. This
reduced their training cost and time.

5. Cadbury implemented the big bang approach.

Cadbury’s Post-Implementation Of An ERP System:

1. Cadburys had many operations in different locations, and all of these were highly centralized.
The management now faced internal issue for which they chose SAP.

2. Cadbury was on a fast-paced growth and could not continue with the old system as its pace was
too slow. 

3. Cadbury had benchmark best practices in the locations and increase the efficiency by bringing
all on the same page.

4. Through the implementation of the ERP, it brought a new warehouse management system
giving a proper structure to the branch offices and depots.
Users Of Cadbury’s ERP System:

This ERP system of Cadbury is used by the following departments:

1. Account

2. Stocks

3. Supplier

4. CRM

5. Human Resource

Key modules of Cadbury ERP:

1. Financial Accounting

2. Sales and order

3. Manufacturing and material management

4. warehouse management

5. Supply chain management

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