With this success, Nike's Single Instance Strategy became the desired approach for many companies implementing ERP software. Nike used SAP for 95% of its global business. An AMR Research5 survey of 110 companies of annual revenues of $500 million or more using ERP revealed that only 23% had adopted a single instance strategy while 36% were planning to put it in place, while another 17% were trying to get the instances down to one per major global region and were investing considerable funds to achieve this...
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Analysts acknowledged that Nike had indeed taken a bold step when it adopted the single instance strategy with its first ERP rollout. During the late 1990s, most companies avoided it due to its huge costs and bandwidth problems. Christopher Koch, Executive Editor, CIO Magazine, remarked, "If it was easy, everyone would just do it...
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Case Study Questions The flow of products from publishers to distributors to customers must be rapid and reliable in order to satisfy customers. The flow of information back through the supply chain allows all members to coordinate efforts...	2 / 344
Supply Chain The most important relation in this chain is among the adjacent departments. They work must smoothly so that the task can be carried from one to the other...	5 / 1148
Crm And Scm If the company must develop a new solution in response to a unique customer query, the information could be added to the knowledge database for the future use by other representatives...	3 / 612
Supply Chain Function Transportation Management solutions allow a company to make intelligent decisions that maximize transportation capacity utilization, create least cost shipment plans, optimize routes, incorporate expediting, and take into account various transportation modes, e...	3 / 818