ERP Architecture in Candy Manufacturing Company.

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ERP ARCHITECTURE IN CANDY MANUFACTURING COMPANY
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ERP ARCHITECTURE IN CANDY MANUFACTURING COMPANY1
Table of Contents
Type of ERP System...............................................................................................................................................2
Benefits of the System.............................................................................................................................................3
Challenges and Mitigation Strategies of the System...............................................................................................4
Determination of Preferable Vendor and Business Functions................................................................................4
References...............................................................................................................................................................6

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Type of ERP System
The candy manufacturing company in Riyadh, the SugarSquared, Inc. is a growing organization that
successfully produces sweet products and distributes them in various regions of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The number of employees working in the organization is 300 and the company has its manufacturing sites in
three different locations. However, the functional businesses of these three locations are completely separate
from each other and cannot update each other about any information. The data generated by them are
maintained separately in their legacy systems and the three sites are not aware about each other’s business
operations. The company also incorporates an online retail site that helps them to gain customers digitally.
However, due to the unawareness of the operations, the managerial body has decided to implement an
Enterprise Planning System that will connect all the three sites, generate data and extract important information
out of it, thereby reducing the consistent effort of the managers to conduct the operations manually. Now the
most beneficial type of enterprise system for the given organization will be the Enterprise Resource Planning
System that will manage the resources of all the three locations and maximize its usage to conduct the business
operations from one single software package (Giachetti, 2016). The different applications available in the ERP
systems will smoothen out the functionalities of the operational activities and monitoring of the quality of these
activities will be enhanced to a significant rate.
It will be best for the company to integrate a customer relationship software as well as a supply chain
module in their enterprise system. The package of customer relationship will help the organization to manage
three operations efficiently- selling the sweet candy products to a wider range of customers, attending the
complaints and the issues from the customer’s end and adopting digital marketing strategies through this
software (Appelbaum et al., 2017). The CRM systems integrated within the ERP will help to manage the
inventories better than before. Again, the systems of supply chain management will help the organization to
acquire raw materials from their vendors in an organized manner by tracking the goods, storing them in
inventories and supplying the manufactured products to the stores and the customers (Panetto et al., 2016).
Thus, an integrated ERP system will prove to be effective for the sugar candy manufacturers of Riyadh in Saudi
Arabia.