Real Application : ERp impact on supply chain a hershey
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 orther application.
the system was orginally scheduled as a four – year project.this schedule was compressed into 30 mounths to go live befour 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.