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Examine the Information System environment of your employer or that of a firm with which you are familiar and determine if its systems are integrated or disparate (silo)1. .

1. If the systems are not integrated, which business functions do they support? How would integrating the systems benefit that particular company?

2. If the systems are integrated, is the company using an ERP vendor or are the applications home grown? Which business areas does the integrated information system support

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1. My company X (don't want to mention the name) that has a lot of stake holders and a lot many data points from which data is collected and feed into different systems, such as MRP, ERP, WMS, and other different kind of planing tools such as SAP, Salesforce etc. In most geographies and at different ends of the value chain they have not integrated the data. For e.g.: they haven't integrated the data from the demand generating points to the planning points. Still today they download data from SAP in excel format and then upload the data into different planning tools. This is true for Sales and Operations planning, Capacity planning, production planning.

Integrating the system will help in the following ways:

a. Real time forecasted data will be available

b. No fear of Data security issues.

c. No sanitization required for the data, and hence there won't be any loss of data.

2. For certain geographies the organization has started using Anaplan since past few months, which receives capacity, demand and loss related data as a input directly from SAP. The integrated system supports the capacity planning fro short term and long term and a part of the sales and operations planning. but is limited only a few geographies.

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