Index

I. Proposal Paper II. Powerpoint Presentation III. Financials IV. Customer Survey and References V. CEO Announcement Memo

Project Summary Castle Metals was once considered to be a state of the art company in the metal service center industry. We were ahead of the game as far as technology and what it has to offer. Many events, both economical and organizational occurred over the past few decades. These events were not positive in all cases. We have now found ourselves behind the times – very behind. Not only had our largest competitors replaced or enhanced their core business systems, our customers and suppliers were in process or completed the same. This left us in a very unfavorable light for competitive advantage or futuristic growth in the technology realm. This brings us to the current need to look hard at the existing mainframe legacy business systems that are in place today. The project proposal outlined in this paper and presentation has been dubbed the Business System Replacement or BSR. The need is outlined as looking for the replacement of these existing disparate systems that have become outdated and unsupported. We are looking at Business Process Enhancements which include such elements as significantly improved inventory management and control, improved controls surrounding financial reporting, real-time reporting and visibility of information and reduced reliance on manually generated databases and reporting. In addition, we defined IT related improvements involving such items as system documentation on-line which offers us additional evidence to support Sarbanes-Oxley, reduction in specialized IT resource support and hardware support and overall enhanced security over critical financial processes. We determined specific identity processes that differentiate Castle Metals from our competitors and what