INF60012 Semester 2: ERP Analysis and Implementation for CLR Recycling

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of CLR Recycling's current ERP system, addressing its challenges and proposing solutions for efficient business operations and expansion. The report begins with an executive summary and an introduction to CLR Recycling, outlining its business goals and the need for an improved ERP system. It then delves into the scope, audience, and background information, followed by a detailed analysis of the company's current situation, identifying areas for improvement such as user-driven approaches, customer services, and regulatory control. The report evaluates software options, with a recommendation for SAP ECC 6.0, and discusses risk and change management strategies. Ultimately, the report offers recommendations to enhance CLR Recycling's capabilities and competitiveness, leading to a more efficient and successful business.

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ERP ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION
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Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Scope................................................................................................................................................4
Audience..........................................................................................................................................5
Background information...............................................................................................................5
Objective......................................................................................................................................6
Analysis and evaluation...................................................................................................................6
A review of the current situation..................................................................................................6
Software selection..........................................................................................................................10
SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA..........................................................................................11
Investigation of new solution......................................................................................................11
Risk management...........................................................................................................................12
Change management...................................................................................................................13
Overall summary...........................................................................................................................14
Recommendation...........................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15

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Executive summary
In this paper, we are going to look deeply on the current ERP system that CLR
company is using its benefits and challenges that the company is facing with their current
system, every business dream is to thrive and expand its business, this goal are crippled by the
failure of the system to adopt new and changing technology in which one cannot evade, we will
look on how to overcome this challenges and implement new ERP system, which will lead to
expansion of the company and efficiency operation of the company
CLN recycle bin company wants to expand its business which is a ‘dream’ of every
organization that wants to thrive and achieve their goals, the company also wants to come up
with a way of producing non-toxic and bio gradable materials that are nature friendly, cooping
and moving with the trending IT technology, improve networking, relation with customers,
delivery of the products, this is some of the critical issues that will be looked upon in this paper.

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Introduction
The CLR recycling company is a company dealing with recycling of product and selling
the final products to both national and international, its targeting to facilitate the efficient
production of the materials and also expanding the business to more international country , hence
to accomplish this the company needs to implement an ERP system that is capable of catering for
both current requirement and installation of drives that will cater for the future operation and
expansion of the organization
This concern brought to me that new ERP system needs to be implemented to cater for
current challenges such as IT limitation that makes it difficult for the company to improve its
sales and also expands its business internationally, the IT that the company is using now does not
support data analysis and standardization that is needed for costs and profit analysis, the CLR
company also needs to make sure their customer are satisfied and their products are availed at
time to the customers without fail, the ERP system will help the company to research on how to
produce products that are nature friendly and last longer than the previous ones, the company
also focuses on improving its managements , the ERP system contains integrated software’s that
an organization needs for collecting, storing, managing and interpreting of data which is crucial
in this case, the merit of implementing the system is that there will be efficient flow of business
activities leading to success of the business this issues that affecting the CLR company led to
findings and solution to both current challenges and upcoming challenges, as depicted ERP
provides an integrated and continuously updated view of core business processes using
common database maintained by a data base management system

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Scope
The scope of this report covers the CLN recycling company that is faced with the
challenges of operating its business to efficient and meeting the need of the consumer both in
product delivery and in communication and also in networking, hence leading to coming up with
an ERP solution to cater for all aspect as depicted earlier
The research of the project majors in implementing ERP system with software’s that are
able to overcome the challenges faced by the CLN recycling company, leading to gathering of
information especially secondary information concerning the system, the findings from the
project most qualifies for the CLN recycling company others do not, some of the companies that
provide the software’s sampled to get the best software that suits the organizations
Audience
This report is dedicated to the BOD and CEO of the CLN recycling company which
provides both the requirements and the drivers needed for the efficient and smoothing running of
the business
Background information
ERP system from an organization overview it comprises software tied together that
integrates to help small, medium and large companies to run their business. (Gruber, 2014). He
observed that companies face challenge’s due to the desire of wanting to expand, run business
efficiently and maintain good relationships with their customers, implementation of the ERP
system project was expensive and time taking because research had to be done evaluated, and the
analyst had to come with the right soft wares to suit the organization (Harmelen, 2015). The
system is set to make work easier in providing workflow program that makes processes of an
organization to move efficiently, ERP got its roots in 2016 after large evolving of technology in

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e-business, e-commerce, and e-government, it marked an error of change and development
regarding commerce and business both nationally and internationally
The statistics show that most of the big companies have implemented ERP system and their
business are thriving in an ambiguous level that is pleasing, also the small and medium
organization are trying to compete with the already established company due to implementation
of the system, customer relation has increased due to the implementation of this project, in early
2005 companies using the system were less because of lack of information and benefits of the
system that is vividly depicted by companies that use the system, (Bogaard, 2016 )
Now in 2014 the ERP has become widely used in most of the companies, the IT
companies have ventured into this system and they provide a platform for building up software
that makes the system run smoothly and also cater to the requirement of the company in both
daily requirements and also in both future requirement of the company in its operation,
Objective
The objective of the project is to come up with the ERP system that
i) Enables interaction of customers with the CLN organization
ii) Improve expansion of the business internationally, e.g., by use of e-business
iii) Improve sales plan and product design
iv) The company to maintain networking suppliers
Analysis and evaluation
An analysis of the current situation
For the business to thrive there is a need for business requirements and drivers these are

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1. User drive approach, it's a driven by the user whereby the user suggests changes in the
system, the feedback helps to identify what suitable for the user, this help in developing
and implementation of the phase that suits the user. CLN recycling company needs this
feature to be able to interact with their client even those who are at overseas
2. Business process improvement, this is understanding the performance and process of an
organization on how they work this is to provide an effective plan to achieve the desired
goals whereby CLN company needs business process improvement to help them create
networking
3. Customer services, most of the company are focusing in providing better services to their
customer either by making procedures to be easier, products to be delivered in time,
communication to be improved and create a thriving e-business globally, this helps CLN
company to expand their business to overseas.
4. Cloud-based ERP, cloud-based drivers are being upheld by most of the companies and
eliminate to reduce cost in management; it helps not only in cost management but also in
asset management which are crucial things when it comes to management in
organizations
5. Cognitive analytic, most business nowadays are thriving in unveiling the dynamic change
in behavior of customers , their expectation towards the product if it will cope with the
growing technology, and if its friendly enough and the product is flexible to cater for
their needs, hence the companies are coming up with system that can unfold new
business opportunities and act as platform for business growth

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6. Mobility support, due to dynamic change I technology, mobile has become a must feature
to an ERP system, both the executive, employees and sales team need information to be
able to know when to make the critical decision, most of the business are transacted
through internet hence need for mobility support system
7. Express delivery model, the cloud-based ERP enables customers globally can get their
products in time withou6t delay and monitoring of the system is easy, CLN company
needs this ERP system to cater for their customers to avoid delays of the product
8. Regulator control, CLN company needs an ERP system that has a regulator to detect
hazardous and toxic material to be produced because it aims to produce products that are
less toxic and are environment friendly and lasting
9. Management model, the CLN company, need a management model that will support
managing of products and also sales, the system is equipped in the manner that helps the
senior manager supervise the process in an organization and Alsop help in making of
critical decision making
10. Process manufacturing functionality, CLN needs an ERP system that can adopt to the
manufacturing requirement, this enables the ERP system to save time and maximize the
time is taken by the workers in the manufacturing process which is crucial in the CLN
recycle company
ERP drivers and Business Data source

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requirements processes
User driver
approach
Drivers Communication Information from
customers
intact
Business process
involvement
Requirements administration Admiration
information
NetSuite ERP
Customer
services
Drivers communication Customer
feedback
odor
Cloud-based Requirements finance Accounting and
cost control
Intacct
Cognitive-based
analytic
Drivers Information
technology
Research on
consumer
behavior
odoo
Mobility support
Express delivery
model
Drivers Information
technology
Technology
information
odoo
Regulatory
control
Drivers manufacturing Research
information
Netsuite ERP
Management
model
Requirement administration ERP expert Bright pearl erp
Process
manufacturing
functionality
Requirement manufacturing Workers
information
Netsuite ERP
Software selection

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SAP ECC 6.0
It’s a planning software that provides sales, finance, manufacturing, human resource,
distribution, project management and customer relation it also contains an individual module for
each aspect of business operations, it provides integration of information as any action that is
generated by the sales and distribution module is available and usable by those in the financial
sector of the organization, the software also detects any changes in price increase or decrease and
also any stoppage of work, its efficient and more advanced because it allows multiple modules in
multiple suits which is not the case with other software (Sumner, 2018). The software is suitable
because it covers all aspect that requires planning and running process using the computer. Is
taken as the best because its dynamic and its flexible it changes with dynamic change in
technology, technology is taking over, and one needs to incorporate new technology to fit and
compete fairly in the market, this kind of software suits the CLN recycle company because it acts
as an umbrella covering all the aspects covered in this report
SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA
It's a software that involves in delivering innovation also business process area; it uses new data
model optimized for the new code lining, the software is meant to cover day-day activities in an
organization, its termed as the transformation of EPR but questionable regarding functionality
and pricing
As a technological consultant I will recommend CLN recycling company to adopt SAP ECC 6.0
system because it covers all its need, in terms of administration, communication, technological
changes and also I caters for financial aspects, the software also allows the company to interact

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with its employee and make work processes to be easy than the traditional methods (Grönlund,
2016)
Investigation of a new solution
According to the conference attended by the CNL company manager ( John MacDonald ) the
solution offered by (Ariba, Concur Technologies, and Cadillac cloud companies), was
implementing SAP EPR which could cover all the activities that revolve in a business this will
help CNL recycling company because the company needs to install IT program (Tarhini, 2016)
be able to deliver their product at a fast rate and also be able to communicate with their
customers and many more as shown on the table above, hence SAP helps to take control and
efficiency which leads to saving cost of production of the items (Aubert, 2016)
Through installation of a software in SSP known as Cadillus cloud software which
enables to run sales manufacturing and human resource function, this add-on is suitable to cater
for the companies emerging issues such as CLN company being able to compete with changing
business organization, improve interaction with customer globally which will lead to expansion
of the business, and increase the mobility of the mangers and also the employee including the
customers, creation of networking is also important for CLN recycle company and it requires the
ERP system that can cater for it.
Risk management
Risk management is the process of identification, evaluation, prioritizing of the risk and creating
a way of dealing and overcoming future occurrence of the risk in a business organization, risk

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management plan is important because it helps evade limitation such as ineffective strategic
thinking planning, poor project, and inadequate change management, these may lead to failure of
EPR system( Tarhini,2016)
Risk management plan, should have control which mitigates a risk that may occur during the
process, the risk should be assessed not to occur and the system should contain all the possible
mitigation of dealing with any occurrence of the risk, some of the risks that may affect the
system are poor project team skill, inadequate business process re-engineering, inadequate
change management
name description Source likeliho
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impac
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rating mitigation referen
ce
Lack of
top
manageme
nt support
CLR
management
does not
provide
resources to
the
implementati
on project
-lack of
proper
communicati
on
-lack of
resources
-change
priorities
Medium
–lower
-high
-
medium
Sever
chroni
c
-acute
significa
nt
-best
better
-Develop
communicatio
n- plan
-predict
reserve
funding in the
budget

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Change management
Is dealing with transition and transformation of organization goals process of technology,
managing change is effective in ERP system because it allows one to add the human factor in the
system, helps in getting the organization entire team on board and finally you can recapture and
re-assess best practices
I propose Lewin's change management model
REFREEZE UNFREEZE
(Solidifying the desired change) (PREPARING THE
DESIRED CHANGE)
Change
(Implementing the desired change)
The model can help in implementing the new system by solidifying the desired change,
preparing the desired change and implementing the desired change
The strength of Lewin's model is that it’s easy to comprehend and handle, also user-friendly, it
also concentrates on the fear of the employees who want to evade the change, on the other hand,
the model does not focus on all aspect as depicted in Kotter's model

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Overall summary
This report gives an overview of what ERP system is how it works, and the benefits of
the system to an organization, by incorporating the system in CLN recycling company, the ERP
system will be able to curb the limitation of the company and also overcome the incoming
challenges, as shown above, ERP system is capable of dealing with all aspect and make the
company archive its goals, the system provides a platform whereby it enables the company to
interact with its customers and get feedback about the product which leads to critical decision
making, creation of mobility to both the executive the sales team and also the employee ,
communication also will be done easy and sharing of information will be highly uplifted,
networking will also be incorporated into the system and mostly of all IT will be incorporated in
CLR company, and this will lead to venturing in overseas business hence leading to expansion of
the companies
Recommendation
I would recommend BOD and CEO’s to implement the ERP system in the system because
the system will lead to the achievement of the goals and success of the company, such as
expansion of the business, efficient administration, and also help in financing sector, this system
it will act as an ‘umbrella’ to all process of the business.

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