OM 101 Operations Management

Group Project Part B: Operations Consulting - Due Tuesday, March 18

Work with your group and focus on the following:

1.  Fine-tune your findings on ERP: a. Top 5 ERP vendors, b. Most recent versions of their ERP products, and c. The market share of the top 5 ERP vendors.

2.  Fine-tune your findings on Business Analytics and Big Data Management.

3.  As a group of consultants, you have been asked to analyze one of the fortune 500 companies in order to help make the company more competitive, focusing on the following aspects:

    a) Briefly provide the company profile of your choice, including annual sales, number of employees, total assets, a chart of stock prices over the past 12 months, and main products of the company.

    b) Who are major competitors? What are the major challenges that the company is current facing?

4. Write a brief report (5 pages) on Items 1, 2, and 3, including data, charts, references.

5. Each member of the “project team” must submit via Blackboard a Peer Evaluation Form for each of the group members, which most accurately and objectively indicates each member’s performance on the Case Analysis and Case Report, using the attached Evaluation Form B.