When you start tying all these systems together, it becomes a chain, and there's always the chance you'll have weak links. What happens, for example, when you rely on an application that feeds the shop floor system the bit of information you're looking for and that application fails?

We had a chance down the stretch. Look at the stats from the second half compared to the first. I like the shots we were getting. They were all pretty good shots.

It's reality. If you don't shoot it at least somewhat better than that you're not gonna have a chance to get a W.

We're not where we're at in the standings if it isn't for Andy. He gives us a chance to win every night he's out there.

Before, purchase orders would be initiated, processed and paid through the individual plants. Each plant used its own coding approach, product number system and so on, and that information would sit there in a silo.

We weren't in the position to make the investment needed for a single-instance ERP system. You can always spend $2 or $3 million on software, and sometimes you get the benefit, sometimes you don't. We were looking for a low-cost integration strategy we could reuse for a number of different e-business objectives.