Autosystem: The Business Value of a Successful ERP System for a Small Manufacturer

Dr. Md. Mahbubul Alam Joarder Faculty Member

Prepared For:

Nazia Tasnim Joty ID:UG01-23-10-090 Section:23(c) Department of Business Administration(BBA) State University of Bangladesh

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Topic
Autosystem: The Business Value of a Successful ERP System for a Small Manufacturer

Overview Of Autosystems

Autosystem is an automotive lighting designer and manufacturer . Located in Belleville,Ontario, they employ approximately 800 at three facilities. Autosystem trading partner include General Motors, Visteon, Ford, Chrysler, Saturn, Harley-Davidson, Mack Truck, and Bombardier. Established in 1986, Autosystem manufactured its first headlamp assembly in 1987, and by 1997 had manufactured over 10 million headlamp assemblies .

Problems
Until a few years ago, Autosystems was still trying to manage there manufacturing process with a variety of paper documents No PCs on the shop floor. Each plant was using individual sets of paperwork. Supervisors were not trained.

Solutions

Installed an ERP( Enterprise resource planning) system from Infor Global Solutions called TRANS4M.

Autosystems has gotten some positive changes after implementing ERP system
Now they have 20 PCs throughout three plants. The plan is to move to a fully electronic system. Supervisors are trained now.