Donnelly Custom Manufacturing: ERP Solution Implementation Report

This report examines the need for an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for Donnelly Custom Manufacturing, a company facing challenges due to outdated systems and a lack of communication. The report analyzes the company's background, current situation, and the components hindering its efficiency, including outdated software, manual processes, and a need for improved customer satisfaction. The proposed solution involves implementing EnterpriseIQ software to streamline operations, improve real-time monitoring, and enhance communication. The report highlights the benefits of EnterpriseIQ, such as its comprehensive functionality and ease of use, as well as its ability to integrate with the company's existing processes. The implementation is expected to simplify operations, improve data entry, and improve communication between internal staff, suppliers, and customers. The report concludes that the ERP system will enable Donnelly to focus on its core competencies, meet customer demands more effectively, and achieve greater success in the market by leveraging the capabilities of EnterpriseIQ.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
1. Background of the Company (Donnelly Custom Manufacturing)..............................................2
2. Analysis of the company’s current situation:..............................................................................3
3. Components responsible for developing the ERP solution:........................................................3
3.1. Lack of communication:.......................................................................................................3
3.2. Outdated techniques:............................................................................................................4
3.3. Outdated software’s:.............................................................................................................4
3.4. For customer satisfaction:.....................................................................................................4
4. Implementation of the ERP solution:..........................................................................................4
5. Future development for Donnelly Custom Manufacturing:........................................................5
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................6
References:......................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
ERP or enterprise resource planning refers to the integrated management of the core
business processes where software and technology acts as one of the most important factor
(Monk, & Wagner, 2012). The main things that are included in the ERP are planning of the
product, planning for the production of the product, the manufacturing process and the delivery
system, the sales and marketing department, management of the materials, management of the
inventory and many more. Leon (2014) explained that ERP can also be referred to as the
business management software that can be used by an organisation to collect, store, manage and
interpret data from the business activities.
This report discusses about the needs of ERP solution for the Donnelly Custom
manufacturing so as to deliver good product on time and to tackle with the difficulties they are
facing right now. Along with this the report also discusses about the possible future outcomes of
the company and how the company is going to earn benefits from the new suggested ERP
solution.
1. Background of the Company (Donnelly Custom Manufacturing)
Donnelly Custom Manufacturing company was founded in the year of 1984 and has its
headquarters in Alexandria. It is a multi-national company that serves a number of renowned
customers like the Diebold, Graco and many more. Donnelly aims at perusing the best practices
of an industry so as to fulfil its promises of delivering the good products on time. After its
foundation the company has played a great role and has earned a lot of reputation in a short
interval of time (Donnmfg.com, 2017). The company had a can do attitude which helped it a lot
in setting standards of its work in a very short time. There are almost 225 employees of the

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company who are focused on doing this job. They are able to manage about 2800 active molds
along with that about 600 different materials are used and about 15000 mold changes every year.
In the business of manufacturing precision and efficiency are the paramount so they are having a
relentless war on the waste-backed advanced technologies, innovative processes and their tireless
commitment for their whole team. The annual revenue of the company is around $25 to $50
million (USD) per year (yahoo.com, 2017).
2. Analysis of the company’s current situation:
Donnelly aims at providing short-run manufacturing and value added services to the
original equipment manufacturers who provides a good quality good from the industrial to
commercial products. they want to perform its operation in a short interval of time. They make
use of the OS/2 operating system and various software for the purpose of managing their
operations. Besides that, they also used manual process for the purpose of making the production
schedule. The need of ERP solution arises due to the fact that the growth of the company is
outpacing because of the capacity of the system(Donnmfg.com, 2017). According to the
president of the company Kirscht “Manufacturers today operate in a flat world”. He also stated
that” The playing field between the U.S and the off-shore market is growing more level by the
day, and every player along with the supply chain is intertwined. If your information technology
platform does not support lean operations and EDI transactions, you will fall below the curve”.
3. Components responsible for developing the ERP solution:
3.1. Lack of communication:
The customers of the company want to communicate and interact by the use of electronic
means which is not possible by the use of the current system they are having.

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3.2. Outdated techniques:
The company also identified that the traditional method of scheduling the and managing
the shop floor manually was an out dated process and requires lot of labour. The main reason for
which the ERP (Babu, & Bezawada, 2012) solution needs to be developed is the limitation of the
number of the peoples who are able to remain in the same module at the same time have become
unsustainable.
3.3. Outdated software’s:
The customers of the company were looking forward towards the development but the
old software’s that the company was having was not ready for meeting the demands of the
customers (Tarhini, Ammar & Tarhini, 2015). The company also wanted an ERP solution for the
purpose of handling the requirements of the injection moulders.
3.4. For customer satisfaction:
The most essential reason for which the company is in need of an ERP (Tsai et al. 2012)
solution is to fulfil the promises that they have made to the customers of delivering a very good
quality product and the best service.
4. Implementation of the ERP solution:
The company was looking for a fit system which could function in the future very
properly. By looking into the needs of the company the best ERP solution for the company
would be by the use of the EnterpriseIQ software from the IQMS. EnterpriseIQ is a different
type of software which helps in avoiding the hustle of Off-the-shelf ERP solutions (they are not
good and may require a third party software for customization.). The main reason for choosing
this EnterpriseIQ is that it can incredibly fit in accordance to the requirements of the company.

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One of the advantageous factor of EnterpriseIQ is because of its comprehensive functionality and
its design which is made for every type of manufacturing. EnterpriseIQ (Howarth, 2012) has the
ability of handling the distinctive issues that are related to the model of injection. Many of the
major aspects of the business are easily handled by the Enterprise IQ. There are also other factors
which are responsible for choosing the EnterpriseIQ and this includes the ways of using it which
is a very easy process along with the fact that for using this software only a little amount of
training is required. EnterpriseIQ is contained and extendable in within a single database without
nay third part add-ons has made it appropriate for using it in the ERP solution Commitment of
IQMS to enhance and improve the single-source software in the future for the success of the
customers seemed to be critical for the company but the best fit and functionality provided by the
IQMS at an attractive price made EnterpriseIQ a platform that will help the company to be
around and vibrate in the future (Zarei & Naeli, 2012).
5. Future development for Donnelly Custom Manufacturing:
The implementation of EnterpriseIQ will greatly help in simplifying the operations of
Donnelly across the shop floors. The software will help in real-time monitoring of the production
which will initially help the shop floor supervisors to access all the production data of the
company anytime from any place of the world (Ahmad & Cuenca, 2013). This will help the
supervisors in saving time by avoiding the travel from one shop to another so as to check the
presses. Besides this the software will also help in eliminating the entry of the excess data
thereby saving a lot of time of the supervisors or team leaders as they do not have to work
overtime beyond their shifts for the purpose of only entering the data. The communication
between the internal staffs of the company, the suppliers and the customers will also be improved
by the use of this software (Shaul, & Tauber, 2013). The time required for the invoicing also gets

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decreased. Donnelly will stand up and keep running by the use of all the modules of
EnterpriseIQ including the Real-time monitoring of the production, management of the quality,
and many more. The employees of Donnelly will be able to manoeuvre all the levels of business
very easily and will be able to save a lot of time along with eliminating the mistakes that could
have taken place in case of manual process (Kwak et al, 2012).
Conclusion:
The report helps to conclude that with an ERP system the company will be very much
successful in supporting and confirming the different business strategies that will help it out in
focusing on the core competencies of the company and will also help in detecting of the
situations when it can gain more advantage of the market. By the involvement of the Enterprise
IQ the company will be able to achieve more success and will be able to meet its customer
demands at a much faster rate. Donnelly believed that knowing the customers and their business
is one of the leading factors of success and due to the fact that IQMS is working on the same
region for adapting towards the customers’ requirements with a very little cost and effort lead the
company chose EnterpriseIQ as best ERP solution. All the Requirements of Donnelly will be
fulfilled by implementation of the EnterpriseIQ thereby helping the company in meeting the
demands of the customers. EnterpriseIQ will also cost low and will greatly help the company in
saving of time as well as money. Most of the complexities will be removed if Donnelly makes
use of the EnterpriseIQ.

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