Enterprise System Implementation for Pacific Steel

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Discussion......................................................................................................................2
ERP system for Pacific Steel......................................................................................2
Sales and distribution process in Pacific steel............................................................5
Material management in Pacific steel........................................................................7
Conclusion......................................................................................................................9
References....................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
This report aims to discuss the required consultancy service for the Enterprise
Information System implementation in the Pacific Steel enterprise. A detailed discussion of
the company is provided in the report along with the discussion of the products, history and
the organisational structure. An ERP system is selected for this company and then the sales
and distribution along with the material management is provided in this report. Lastly this
report concludes with an appropriate conclusion for the report.
The company Pacific Steel that is based in New Zealand, in the city of Auckland is
popularly known as the manufacturer of the high quality reinforcing steel rod along with the
bar products for the almost 50 years ("Pacific Steel | Pacific Steel", 2019). The main products
of the company are the SEISMIC Reinforcing Bar and Coil, WIREMARK Fencing Wire
Steel for Mesh, Manufacturing Wire (Galvanised), and Bright Wire (Non Galvanised). The
organisation works using a strict organisational structure and this provides the company with
the ability of making the required hard business decision easily and efficiently (Loporcaro,
Pampanin & Kral, 2016).
Discussion
ERP system for Pacific Steel
ERP system helps in managing the resources of the organisation more efficiently and
effectively. The company Pacific steel intends to implement the ERP system for allowing the
enhanced management of resources (Tarhini et al., 2015). The two best ERP system in the
present times are the NetSuite ERP and the SAP ERP.
NetSuite ERP: This ERP system is scalable, complete ERP solution that is targeted at
the high growing, mid sized businesses and the large enterprises. This system automates the

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processes of the front and the back office that includes the revenue management, financial
management, order management, fixed assets, inventory management and billing. In this
manner, this offers the complete organisation form top management to crucial clerical staff
with a customisable view of the key performance indicators and the reports for the role
(Seethamraju, 2015). The ERP is developer hosted, ERP platform that is based on the cloud
and it is offered as the SaaS, factually, this software is utilised by several companies and it
provides the companies with improved processes. The NetSuite offers the functionality of
ERP management for supporting the requirements of the finance, sales, HR, operations and
the service departments. The application provides the host of benefits that includes the
enhanced productivity of the employee using the cross-departmental system integration and
the automation of the system. This presents the data visibility in real time that assists in the
improved decision making. With the NetSuite ERP, the expenses of the support of
technology by the outsourcing of the application hosting and the elimination of the costs
associated with the investing in the server hardware (Chofreh et al., 2014). Additionally, the
company could deploy the self-service business portals working in the B2B environment for
enabling the effortless supplier and the customer collaboration and therefore improve the
relationships among the business and the partners.
SAP ERP: This ERP system is the ERP software that is designed by a German
company SAP SE. This ERP software combines the crucial business functions of the
organisation. The business processes that are included in the SAP ERP are the operations,
financials, human capital management and the corporate services. There are several modules
that are included in the SAP ERP like the Controlling, Financial Accounting, Material
Management, Sales and distribution, Product Planning, project system and the quality
management. The implementation of this ERP system is done in five phases which are the
Project preparation, business blueprint, realisation, final preparation and the golive support