JACG Consulting Group
JACG Consulting Group

SAP ERP Implementation
SAP ERP Implementation

By Jonathan Deroza, Audry Vazquez,
Crystal Wheeler and George Sergi
By Jonathan Deroza, Audry Vazquez,
Crystal Wheeler and George Sergi

Abstract
We are working on the implementation of an ERP system from SAP for our coop with a total of 51 member owners. We are under a compelling opinion that the SAP R/3 software package gives us the best opportunity to achieve our objectives by reducing reporting and invoicing errors, reducing labor and transition costs and increasing productivity throughout JACG and its membership companies.

1. Overview
JACG is a consulting firm modeled a coop that provides innovation business solutions in the food industry for their member-owners and customers. Today JACG has 51 active members with sales totaling fourteen billion dollars. JACG leverages the total volume, knowledge and loyalty of their membership to establish a competitive advantage by reducing costs and offering business building competencies. The value proposition that JACG brings to the membership is defined in many area including procurement, sourcing, quality assurance and best in class consulting services for its member-owners. The AS400 system JACG has in place today is very antiquated. The system is more than 20 years old and has been customized to the juncture where the updates to the software suite provided by the manufacturer are no longer useful; it is not flexible, scalable or robust enough for our company in which it needs to go forward. Today our employees are doing many functions of their jobs out of the system and it has become a manual and cumbersome process. Relying on the human knowledge makes the functions our end users every expensive to train and maintain, along with increasing the transition costs having a very specialized workforce. Being a