Review the following case study and then answer the questions that follow: Companies that got Business Success using ERP Solution - R.A.S Logistics A profound appliance delivery service provider introduced since 1998. It got to expand its business by integrating with the last-mile delivery service when a company needed help with delivering its appliances for Home Depot. Along with the sales of the appliance and furniture sales, Home Depot got bigger and so did R.A.S Logistics. Over time more new retail customers were joining in and it started operating from more than 20 locations worldwide. Challenges Faced As the company grew bigger, many customers began to come to them for delivering furniture, spas, mattresses and exercise equipment etc. And soon it started to operate from a single location to 21 locations. So it became quite challenging for the company to manage each of the separate legal entities of each location. As sales crossed the milestone of $40 million, the QuickBooks of the company was unable to keep up with the huge number of entities. So it began to crash more frequently than ever. And they were unable to handle the consolidations of the financial statements of all the various legal entities of intercompany. The manual account processing and its paperwork by the accounting team became quite a laboursome task. Benefits achieved with ERP Solution Thus far, the company was doing almost everything manually. And a very few of the accounting functions were integrated with its core system. So they felt the need for an ERP solution that could provide them with better data insights, easier consolidations, correlated business processes, and financial statement management. So they have turned to a Cloud ERP and experienced the following benefits. Automation of the whole account management process - Complete Integration with the financial system - Real-time data insights \& information - Web-based solution with internal server - Flexible as the business changes & grows bigger - No custom programming required to move SQL database program - Faster access to any database they want from anywhere Note: In your answers, you will be awarded more marks for integrating the theory and application. Q.3.1 Assess the benefits of ERP systems with the use of examples from the case (10) study. Q.3.2 Suggest business benefits of IT/IS alignment with application to the case study