Nibco Executive Summary

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NIBCO’s background NIBCO is a well-established company with 3,000 employees and more than 20,000 stock-keeping units located in various countries. The company mainly produces flow control products like valves, fittings, hangers. NIBCO has a wide range of customer base which includes industries like residential, commercial construction, industrial, irrigation, commodity markets. Its major customers are F.W. Webb, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Menard’s, Ace Hardware, True Value and also some small customers (Brown 2011, 279). The main goal of NIBCO is to become a worldwide choice for flow control products. Their main aim is to provide value added services with reliability and relatively less cost compared to their competitors so that they can retain …show more content…

It is typically the bill issued to the buyer by seller. Benefits to VMI’s approach for NIBCO and NIBCO’s customers NIBCO has gained a lot of popularity, success and became an IT leader by implementing its initial ERP package - SAP R/3 to replace their legacy systems. Benefits associated to NIBCO for implementing SAP package are: improved customer service, developing multichannel service and electronic partnerships for customers, and increase in effectiveness and cost reduction (Brown 2011, 283). NIBCO stood as first company to offer VMI by providing value-added services to its customers with electronic integration capabilities. Some of the benefits to NIBCO for implementing VMI program are: • The major benefit to NIBCO is smoothing of demand. • With this new initiative, NIBCO has become the first company to invest and succeed in IT. The main aim for NIBCO is to create a unique value-added service. With so much internal experience on SAP, NIBCO will definitely have that initial competitive advantage compared to others in the …show more content…

All these metrics have been achieved by almost all of the customers who used VMI program. New initiatives for NIBCO NIBCO’s main aim throughout their implementation of IT systems is to provide good value-added services to its customers. It has always been achieving heights by implementing new services and maintaining loyalty with customers by providing reliable services. Having so much experience in using SAP processes, I think the best initiative for NIBCO would be to implement an information warehouse with SAP platform. The company can make use of SAP BW/4HANA warehouse in order to perform any analytical operations on real time data. Using this data warehouse the company can generate reports which will be helpful: • For the business managers to know more about their product manufacturing and distribution costs. These reports will provide them with necessary information so that they can build new ways to reduce overall

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