Assignment

Rohm and Haas is an international specialty chemical company that has expanded rapidly over the last two decades through acquisitions and divestitures. This had resulted in numerous (over 300) different IT systems with separate reporting systems. Management decided to integrate activities across the functional departments' business processes ­and improve the performance of each organization's resource planning, management control, and operational control.

In this case study, you will be investigating their decisions for the SAP implementation and how total quality management (TQM) was effected. Identify both the purpose and benefits that their system was to have provided and whether those were achieved. Major focus should be given to the decisions and assumption made as well as the reasons made for their selection. There are no specific references given for this case study, only some background information references to help you in your research. It is suggested that in your research, you pay particular attention to the difficulties their rapid expansion caused and how these were addressed.

In this step, you need to find out the questions "what", "how" and "why" of Rohm and Haas SAP implementation. Start with some basic research on the company and its growth: Research into this company will require you to research the actual software incorporated by Rohm and Haas and what it provides to companies like them. For example, they made extensive use of IBM's Lotus Sametime solution. What did this provide and in what area of quality management did it assist them?

Case Study

Title: Topic title here.

Introduction

The aims, context and things you think are linked to the topic. You can use the information in the case study tab as a start.

Research Review

This is a section where the research into existing web articles that may impact on the topic is reviewed and discussed.

Findings

What were the results of your investigation and what answers do they give you? You could insert images, tables or graphs that support your observations

Conclusions

What were the results of your investigation and what answers do they give you? You should refer back to the original topic that you would have stated in the Introduction. Does the research results answer your questions? Is the information complete? Are there any unanswered questions?

References

You may have some references that you talked about in the main case study. It could be a DFES document, it could be a newspaper article, it could be a web page. This is the section where you carefully say where the reader can find that information. It's a burdensome area where you will have to follow the rules as closely as possible.