Ocean County Utilities Authority（OCUA）是一个区域性污水处理组织，为Ocean County和新泽西州南部蒙茅斯县的37个社区提供服务。OCUA运营着三个废水处理设施，综合处理能力为每天8000万加仑（MGD）。1998年，OCUA认识到需要对用于管理其财务会计职能的业务系统进行现代化。与此同时，工单跟踪系统和库存管理系统也已达到其使用寿命。OCUA认识到，理想情况下，这些系统应该相互沟通，以实现总体的权威目标。因此，OCUA签订了一项协议，以制定信息技术总体规划（ITMP）。ITMP文件建议OCUA采用企业资源规划（ERP）系统，该系统可以在单一软件系统中提供财务、维护、人力资源和库存管理功能。 OCUA选择并实施了SAP R/3系统作为其功能需求的解决方案。本文描述了维护、库存和采购的整合为OCUA带来收益的方式，并分析了这种整合带来的挑战。包括数字。

The Ocean County Utilities Authority (OCUA) is a regionalwastewater treatment organization that serves 37 communities in Ocean County and Southern Monmouth County, New Jersey. OCUA operates three wastewater treatment facilities with a combined treatment capacity of 80 million gallons per day (MGD). In 1998, OCUA recognized a need to modernize the business system employed to manage its financial accounting functions. At the same time, work order tracking systems and the inventory management systems had also reached the end of their useful lives. OCUA recognized the fact that these systems ideally should communicate with each other to achieve overall Authority goals. Accordingly, OCUA enteredinto an agreement to develop an Information Technology Master Plan (ITMP). The ITMP document recommended that OCUA pursue an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, which could provide financial, maintenance, human resources, and inventory management functions in a single software system. OCUA selected and implemented the SAP R/3 system as a solution for its functional requirements. This paper describes the ways in which the integration of maintenance, inventory, and purchasing has worked to achieve gains for OCUA and provides an analysis of the challenges this integration presented. Includes figures.