Enhancing Efficiency and Integration with ERP Systems: Atrion Corporation Case Study

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Atrion Corporation is one of the growing business suppliers of medical equipment’s in niche
segments of heath care sector in USA and their product portfolio ranges from cardiovascular
equipment’s to ophthalmology products and devices that are marketed to end users, vendors
and other producers. As Atrion Corp’s mission is to emerge at forefront of technology and
manufacturing in medical sector to fulfil needs of targeted segments so they have decided to
implement ERP system solutions to integrate and optimize their current non-integrated
information systems.
Atrion Corp aims to utilize the information as an input to maximize their productivity gains
and overcome the issues of integration of information systems primarily because there are
many ideal components in their non -integrated information system environment which in
most cases results to duplication of information and to different outcomes. Due to these
problems of fragmentation of information Atrion Corp faces difficulty in getting consolidated
information as there are inconsistent redundant data stored in their systems. Hence, to
overcome these problems Atrion Corp should implement ERP solution as it will solve issues
arising from non-integrated IS by aggregating functions, business process and data in one
integrated system to support their needs of business. ERP systems acts as management
solution systems that permits administration of resources in a firm in an integrated way
through automation of departments or functions, thus making information available in real
time. Also, ERP systems help firms in making effective decisions by allowing decision
makers get real time overview of different organizational situations and problems as per
functionality of every department and along value chain including internal and external
process so as to support decision making needs accurately. ERP software systems
standardizes, streamlines and compiles business process through entire functions such as
human resource, procurement, distribution, finance and other department by operating under
integrated software platform which helps to use common data thus making firms operations
function through single database for optimization.
The main positive features of ERP system are:
Enterprise wide integration: business functions get integrated end to end across departments
and business units through ERP. For instance, any new order can be initiated automatically
for credit verification, query checks for product availability and updates for procurement and
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