Shijiazhuang Iron & Steel steals a march on the competition with IBM and SAP. Overview ¦ Business Challenge Shijiazhuang Iron & Steel found that there was literally not enough space at its manufacturing location to increase production volumes. Faced with growing competition from high-volume manufactur- ers able to capitalize on better economies of scale, the company needed to make a radical change in direction in order to maintain profitability. Choosing to reinvent itself as a producer of specialist steels, Shijiazhuang determined that its existing IT systems could not support the stringent quality standards required by customers. ¦ Solution Shijiazhuang implemented mySAP ERP software on the IBM System i5 TM platform, replac- ing disjointed, largely manual system

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