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This case is about SAP R/3 (Enterprise Version 4.7) implementation process at Network Clothing Company Pvt Ltd, (NCC) located in Tirupur (an industrial town in the Southern State of Tamil Nadu in India), also known as the textile valley of India. The company manufactures ready-made cotton garments for leading international store groups such as Carrefour in France, Wal-Mart in Canada, Health Tex in the US and Mothercare in the UK. With a production capacity of 50,000 units per day in garments, it was facing data integration problems with the legacy system. Therefore they required a system, which was integrated and would give accurate figures at any given time. After the dismantling of the multi-fibre agreement in international textile trade from 1 January 2005, the Indian garment and hosiery industry was strongly hoping to capitalise on this opportunity and was very optimistic it would sell all that it produced. Sustainability in the global market is directly related to the degree of competitiveness a firm can achieve. One such measure of competitiveness in today''s global market scenario is a firm''s ability to optimise the use of information technology in its business operations. The case study narrates how a small-scale enterprise (SME) could brave through the challenges of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation towards being globally competitive.