Nike Erp Implementation

Case Study

CASE AUTHOR: MANISH KUMAR JAIN, CASESTUDYINC. COM

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Table of Contents

1.

Introduction - Supply chain management problems at Nike ....................................................................... 3

2.

Nike Background ............................................................................................................................................................ 3

3.

Nike’s Futures – An advance-order purchase system..................................................................................... 5

4.

Nike’s supply chain project - from make-to-sell to make-to-order ........................................................... 5

5.

An ERP solution gone bad .......................................................................................................................................... 6

6.

Playing the blame game. What went wrong? ..................................................................................................... 7

7.

Nike’s business model and Inadequate Data problems ................................................................................. 7

8.

The Turnaround ............................................................................................................................................................. 8

9.

Questions for discussion ............................................................................................................................................. 9

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