hershey Food corp . adopted an ERP system budgeted at over $110 million in 1997
to replace scored of legacy system dealing with inventory, order processing, and other application.
the system was originally scheduled as a four – year project. this schedule was com pressed into 30 months to go live before the peak sales period preceding Y2K.By July 1999,the project was tree month behind schedule, but the system was implemented using big-bang approach anyway.