Successful computerisation programs require an enterprise-wide orientation. If one lets each of the departments attempt to deal with their portion of the materials process independently, one may create a very complicated situation.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with having multiple solutions, each meeting the needs of its users. Purchase can have their specific software, warehouse can use inventory control software, quality control can use a statistical analysis package, vendor development team can use some other package, etc. But unfortunately, while they may meet their own functional needs, they create problems for the materials department or organisation as a whole. If one takes a point-by-point solution approach to computerisation, how does one get all these tools to work with each other ? The answer is they don't ! What the company ends up doing is entering and maintaining the same information about a prospect in six different places. For example, the purchase department would be having its own list of vendors with its own ratings on the computers while the vendor development team has its own duplicate or modified list.
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