Executive Summary For Bombardier Case

Summary for Bombardier Case

Bombardier is a company that has presence in almost every continent in the world. Bombardier has been involved in a lot of acquisitions and mergers over the time and that has not gone that great with the company in terms of IT integration. IT Management never realized that having different data systems for each location or each department will impact the organization terribly in the coming years. As the business expanded, it created redundancies in the system and business processes were duplicated in each function leading to increased costs. Eventually it became very difficult for the management to make well-informed decisions as complete information for product costs, pricing etc. was not available since there

A system integrated approach would improve the business process and hence enable the different functions to share information. It was clearly identified that the ERP deployment would benefit the company through all these elements. In the case, benefits of ERP adoption were not quantified but improved cost and better pricing strategy were discussed to justify the ERP project financially. It can be interpreted that ERP, leading to improved cost analysis, cost control, less redundancy, optimized production and better pricing, would result in low costs and hence higher profit for the company. Financial justification for the ERP adoption can also be inferred through the fact that it would lead to resolution of several problems which the company faces

They incremented the implementation process by creating an inclusive project team. Everyone in the management were assigned with specific responsibilities on project vision. Bombardier did learned from the first failed implementation project attempt. Therefore, this time they contracted SAP consultants to assist, but less than they engaged during the initial launch by 10:1 ratio. Project team created a detailed project blueprint of the system requirements this time. Certain employees were designated from the functional areas to be on project team to create a project vision. This way Bombardier did a fairly decent job in the overall risk management