... that ERP system would allow Whirlpool to better serve its consumer market for stand alone appliance and contract market for built in and at the same time reduce its inventory by 12 days of sales. These competing goals would be accomplished through an information system that would allow a country sales office to view product throughout the supply chain, thereby increasing the efficiency of the distribution process. Whirlpool also expected implemented ERP to provide some integration with suppliers and to increase inventory visibility across the supply chain. This would enable Whirlpool to improve product availability and have a substantially lower inventory level. Add to the above that implemented ERP system will allow Whirlpool to build products to the specific orders from contractors. With ERP, Whirlpool Europe's disparate information systems would be retired and replaced with a single computing architecture for all Europe. Using ERP will create a lot of benefits to ...

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