eliveries to customers, reducing the finished
             good inventory at the warehouses and shipping docks.
             Standardize HR informationâ€"ERP provides HR with a unified, simple
             method for tracking employees' time and communicating with them about
             The ERP vision of one application and one database for everything your
             company is doable, there are many factors that must be considered before
             embarking on such a tremendous undertaking (Worthen, 2003). First, ERP
             systems are extremely expensive and time consuming. AMR, a leading
             research and advisory firm, advises that moving to a single instance will
             cost companies $7 million to $12 million for every billion of revenue, and
             that projects will still take from one to three years. Even after the
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