The business houses find it difficult to manage and control several projects simultaneously at multiple locations. With the urge of controlling several sites at the same time, the manufacturing industry is facing challenges right from the project estimation, bill of materials creation, quote submissions, multiple sites handling to project profitability report.

Global competition is continuously driving the companies to deliver more products at a faster rate, without compromising on the quality. So it is required to assess the project which is timely, relevant and available in a variety of formats. Most of the firms do not have integrated view of multiple functions, As a result, decisions taken carries risk and uncertainty.

As multiple sites are required to be handled and the materials need to be shipped to different locations, it is necessary to have real, well informed decisions. Quick access to reliable business information is the major set back as the firms possess disparate systems including manual paper-based processes, that lead to disconnect amongst the supply chain constituents. The inaccurate data leads to delay in deployment at the project sites.

Another crucial challenge that is faced by the discrete manufacturing industry is integrating the business processes and implementing them. Usually deployment time is quite long compared to any other business function initiatives. Hence, productivity, which is the most preferred measure for evaluating IT effectiveness in discrete manufacturing industry, does not show growth with immediate effect.