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PROFILE
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Brian Edye
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Company: ABRO.
Interviewee: Brian Edye.
Job Title: Project Manager.
The Subject: A trading fund of
the Ministry of Defence, ABRO is in the throes of becoming
a fully commercial organisation and is using supply
chain ERP technology to help it make the leap.
PERSONAL FILE
NAME: Brian Edye.
BACKGROUND: For the past 14
years Brian has worked as an independent consultant
with AMA, helping manufacturing companies implement
new business systems and gain more usage from their
existing systems. He specialises in ERP implementations.
For the past two years, he has been
working with ABRO to introduce its new Cincom system.
Before that, he spent six years with Lucas Aerospace/Goodrich
Controls implementing the same system across 24 sites
worldwide. Prior to that, he spent six years working
in materials management for various UK manufacturing
companies including SKF Bearings. Brian has a Master’s
Degree from Cranfield University in Production Management..
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Q: WHAT PERSUADED ABRO TO ADOPT ITS NEW
ERP SYSTEM?
A: ABRO was the on-vote repair organisation for the army.
It still sits within the Ministry of Defence but was vested
as a Trading Fund in 2002 with the objective of becoming self-sufficient
by March 2005.
Certain functions already existed within ABRO but there was
no front-end sales operation; any materials you wanted, you
could just help yourself; and it operated on the basis that
you have a certain amount of money as the budget for next
year, and off you go.
The organisation also had islands of old technology, on various
sites. It wanted to form as a company and thought that IT
would be an enabler to get one common organisation. The feeling
was, to find something good which could force commercial disciplines.
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