Abstract
Business merger, a trend in modern business world, an activity that can be defined as restructuring in which results in some reorganization with the aim to provide company’s structure integrity, greater market share, positive business growth and other merit such as supply chain integration; however, not all business merger conclude in positive results. This study focused on analyzing the process of relocating business resources and integrating system underlying merging activity. This study employed a real modern business merging of three companies as a case example to analyze the effect of material related integration. To provide efficiency in the management of data and source integration, and therefore result in the positive growth of the organization, the following sequences were proceeded: Early stage data collection, new material number’s naming rule definition, data base arrangement, IT system analysis evaluation, and system testing procedure and employment.The results revealed the benefits of unified management: providing one platform for material application and one material naming rule, and including attributes and data base format. The conclusion of the study indicated that the primary procedure for integrating ERP related material number and system integration is to review all the processes and related SOPs, analyze source data and reconstruct procedure process. The notion of unified management simplifies operations in logistic management and supplier management and therefore the organization operates more efficiently. Unified management solutions help enables faster, more efficient process by promoting collective order solution, tracking logistic related data accurately, providing various support in raw materials for manufactures sites, evaluating price competitiveness for purchasing and reducing cost in capital, operation and raw materials.