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The Ocean County Utilities Authority (OCUA) is a regionalwastewater treatment organization that serves 37 communities in Ocean County and Southern Monmouth County, New Jersey. OCUA operates three wastewater treatment facilities with a combined treatment capacity of 80 million gallons per day (MGD). In 1998, OCUA recognized a need to modernize the business system employed to manage its financial accounting functions. At the same time, work order tracking systems and the inventory management systems had also reached the end of their useful lives. OCUA recognized the fact that these systems ideally should communicate with each other to achieve overall Authority goals. Accordingly, OCUA enteredinto an agreement to develop an Information Technology Master Plan (ITMP). The ITMP document recommended that OCUA pursue an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, which could provide financial, maintenance, human resources, and inventory management functions in a single software system. OCUA selected and implemented the SAP R/3 system as a solution for its functional requirements. This paper describes the ways in which the integration of maintenance, inventory, and purchasing has worked to achieve gains for OCUA and provides an analysis of the challenges this integration presented. Includes figures.

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Edition:

Vol. - No.

Published:

01/01/2001

Number of Pages:

9

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1 file , 240 KB