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Management Information Systems 13e KENNETH C. LAUDON AND JANE P. LAUDON CHAPTER 15 MANAGING GLOBAL SYSTEMS CASE 2 Lean Manufacturing and Global ERP: Humanetics and Global Shop VIDEO CASE Systems SUMMARY Humanetics is a small, private precision machining firm located in Carrollton, Texas. In order to expand into a global corporation, Humanetics needed to find an enterprise-wide system that could coordinate not only its local American production, but also its production in Mexico and China. L= 8:15. URL /watch?v=bOy1Q7s9lls CASE Enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) started out in the 1990s in the manufac- turing sector in the United States as systems that could track incoming orders and automatically churn out the required inputs, their prices, suppliers, and total cost. They were initially called “material requirements planning” systems, and later, “manufactur- ing resource planning” systems (MRP). MRP systems soon expanded their capabilities beyond tracking resources and into related areas, such as planning and scheduling of production, project management, inventory management, accounting and finance. These systems expanded into supporting management functions—tracking sales, customer relationship management—and became known as enterprise resource plan- ning systems. In both the back and front office, ERP systems today attempt to integrate all the critical activities of the firm into an integrated and seamless experience. ERP systems promise to create one system for the firm using a single database. conti