After careful assessment. Wim decided to hire the services of epicor software Corporation for their ERP needs. Epicor is a software solutions provider to various enterprises in the manufacturing. Distribution, retail, and service industries. Epicor has over 40 years of experience and has more than 20,000 customers in over 150 countries. “we reviewed a number of ERP vendors. We looked at each system and its functionality. Epicor stood out with its ability to link to our operations and provide the data we needed” said Leong. The first step was to put together a functional team comprising project management, IT systems managers, and executive management, The project management team defined the scope of the ERP system. Assessed available resources at WIM and budgeted the cost of implementation. The executive team ensured that the resulting system achieved business objectives and strategies. While technical expertise and support was provided by the IT team. A communication plan was designed to keep each individual member informed about current progress and the next steps in the plan. This was an essential part of change management at WIM. The system was implemented using a phased approach, since Epicor believes that key functionalities of the system need to be implemented in the first phase. followed by less major processes in the second phase, and so on.