{"id":3134,"date":"2010-07-20T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T18:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:18:12","slug":"american-lafrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3134","title":{"rendered":"American LaFrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>American LaFrance \u2013 USA<br \/>\nProject : <\/strong>ERP (counting, purchasing, inventory, production, payroll and finance services)<br \/>\n<strong>Date : <\/strong>Jun 2007<br \/>\n<strong>Cost :<\/strong>$Undisclosed, but ALF blames Chapter-11 bankruptcy on the failure of the project<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nALF (the world&#8217;s largest builder of customized fire fighting trucks and equipment) files for chapter-11 bankruptcy following a botched ERP project. \u00a0When the new system was switched on reports indicate that production was thrown into chaos resulting in disruption to cash flow and ultimately a liquidity crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press :<\/strong><br \/>\nFew details released, reports indicate serious deficiencies that affected the cut-over resulting in loss of information and severe operational disruption.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN2848407720080128\" target=\"_blank\">Firetruck maker files for bankruptcy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. American LaFrance \u2013 USA Project : ERP (counting, purchasing, inventory, production, payroll and finance services) Date : Jun 2007 Cost :$Undisclosed, but ALF blames Chapter-11 bankruptcy on the failure of the project Synopsis : [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,77],"tags":[96,132,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-sector","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail","tag-failed-erp-project","tag-private-sector","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}