Assessment – Individual
To be uploaded onto Blackboard Dropbox
Assignment: Report of 1,000 words
Submission: Blackboard Midterm [assignment] Dropbox
The objective of implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is smoothly integrating data and processes across an organization – yet many companies fail during the implementation and there is a negative impact on their revenues, market share, and share price.
The assignment will be to individually write a 1,000 word report on an ERP implementation failure for one of the following companies (choose only one)
- Hershey’s (1999)
- Nike (2000-01)
The report needs to cover:
- What was the goal behind the ERP implementation (what were they trying to achieve);
- What ERP system were they using and what was the cost (of the system);
- What was the failure;
- What was the impact of the ERP failure in terms of revenues, market share (sales), share price, etc;
- How was the problem resolved?
*The report must be properly formatted, well written (grammar and punctuation), and properly cited using at least 3 peer reviewed (i.e. scholarly) publications, in addition you may also use industry/trade publications (i.e. not Wikipedia) or properly researched media (e.g. Financial Post, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, … or other similarly respectable media).
Hint:
- You can search for scholarly articles on: https://scholar.google.ca/ … is easy to use but will not let you download the articles without paying, so……
- You can download journal and scholarly articles (free) from the Humber Library at: https://library.humber.ca/ (use your Humber credentials to Login).
Note: Your submission will be checked for plagiarism when you upload it onto Blackboard, so ensure that the work is your own – and do not share your work with others in the class. If you are quoting ensure that you cite the source.
GOOD LUCK
