Shell Canada Fuels Productivity with ERP. Shell Canada headquarters is at Calgary‚ which has been in operation since 1911. Shell Canada is viewed to be one of the largest integrated petroleum companies. The company employs up to 8‚000 people across Canada (Shell.ca‚ 2015). The main functions of Shell Canada is to manufacture‚ market and distribute various petroleum products. Some of their products are the Natural gas liquids bitumen and Sulphur. Shell has up to 1809 gas stations that are situated
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MIS: Sinosteel strengthens business management with ERP applications 1) What is the business of Sinosteel‚ what are its major challenges‚ and how would an ERP system address the challenge they face? Sinosteel is a company that is in charge of producing and processing metallurgical mineral resources‚ trading and logistics raw materials and products‚ and it is also related engineering technical service and equipment manufacture. The company is decentralized (it has many subsidiaries)‚ while its
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MAC Development Corporation The McCaffreys are in a sticky situation as they have tied up land for a development project and everything seems to be falling apart. They have deadlines to meet and so many moving pieces that I had to read the Case Study several times to wrap my head around it all. At the start of the Phoenix project‚ there were basically three main puzzle pieces the McCaffreys had to juggle. The first one was the Village of Woodland‚ where the land was located‚ had verbally
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“Sniffing Glue Could Snuff Profits.” H.B. Fuller is a leading manufacture of industrial glues‚ coatings‚ and paints‚ with operations worldwide. There glue is used in everything from cars to cigarettes. Fuller’s glue is not always used in the way that the company intended. Tens of thousands of Central American children sniff the Fuller glue‚ becoming addicted to the intoxicating fumes. H.B. Fuller has been in business since 1887 and has the responsibility to provide a safe product for both
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TiVo’s problem rests in its inability to convince consumers to change their television consumption habits. Improper targeting and positioning have led to an ineffective product‚ price-point and promotion strategy that has stranded TiVo in the chasm between the early market and the early majority. TiVo is a truly discontinuous innovation‚ a product that requires consumers to dramatically change their past behavior with the promise of gaining equally dramatic new benefits. TiVo’s main challenge is
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It’s very difficult to walk into any office or workplace and not finding the Cisco logo somewhere from the beginnings of 1984 in San Francisco Cisco is a largely known company throughout the world in IT creating and selling all sorts of hardware devices such as desk phones‚ routers‚ and switches as well as software. Currently holding over 80 offices worldwide and employing nearly 74‚000 people around the globe with a current revenue of up to 12.6 billion so it is hard to believe that throughout its
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Rolls-Royce – implementing ERP system and overcome issues Yasuf‚ Y‚ Gunasekaran‚ A & Abthorpe‚ M 2004‚ ‘Enterprise information systems project implementation: A case study of ERP in Rolls-Royce‚ International Journal of Production Economics‚ vol. 87‚ no. 3‚ pp. 251-266. Rolls Royce came into private sector in 1987 and became a partner with Northern Engineering Industries in 1989‚ after this year Rolls Royce show the capabilities of industrial power. Currently the Company holds number one
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E-commerce E-commerce is Electric Commerce which is a wide range of business activities through internet or other computer networks. It involves trading or selling of products and services from one entity to another. It follows the same basic principles as traditional commerce that is‚ buyers and sellers come together to swap commodities for money. This principle is used over networked computers rather than shopping stores‚ catalogs or telephone in conducting business. E-commerce allows people to
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BMW Z3 is the first BMW car which is being manufactured in North America which has not been a very big market [roughly around 16%] for BMW because of the inability of the American customer to associate with a foreign brand. Therefore the sales and marketing approach of BMW Z3 will lay the foundations of the future of BMW brand in America. Their phase I was a success‚ and they had two months between the launch and the product availability to further ingrain their brand image in the hearts of the Americans
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do we need ERP? I chose a video on Enterprises Resource Planning. The title of the video is What is SAP? Why do we need ERP? It was found on YouTube at URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYCEQqSM08I. I chose this video because I was drawn into the ERP software as I watched this video. As I watched the video‚ my questions of how and why things worked. By the end of the video‚ I felt that if I was to open a business‚ I would have such a system in place. The video explained ERP from a simple
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