Nestle ERP

1. Discuss the objective of ERP Implementation at Nestlé USA. Did they achieve

these objectives?

The project’s main goal was to use common business processes, systems, and

organizational structures across the autonomous divisions within the United States.

These common systems across Nestle USA would create savings through group

buying power and facilitate data sharing between the subsidiaries.

Nestle successfully achieve their goals because with SAP, they be able to get a

significant return on investment (ROI). Common database and business processes led

to more trustworthy demand forecasts for the various nestle products. In addition, it

will allow the company to reduce inventory and redistribution expenses.

2. In this case Dunn faced with cases of Nestle USA must change the way of doing business and employees face opposition to new business processes. Then he put the new stakeholders to design the business processes. But he has a deficiency in communication to employees about the changes. Web-based system will be fully compatible with this new business process. Nestle there are a large company, it will automatically have a lot of workers and spread throughout the world as a global company. 
Then Nestle also has a lot of different products, therefore Dunn need
something that is easy to integrate with existing internal systems and external trading partners. In other words Dunn require internet platform that can provide a wide range of End Users with access to the ERP application over many different locations via the Internet. The first employees resist change, but Dunn had to make something change it to be more easily understood and studied. So that employees can accept these changes well.

3.Discuss the benefits and limitations of ERP implementation at nestle USA

Benefits  :  1. Increased revenue until $8.1 Billion with 16.000 Employee

                  2. Make nestle USA are in a competitive market competition.

                  3. Increase the standardization of their business.

Limitations : 1. Planting high value of the ERP investments.

                     2. conflicts employees having to adjust to changes in
                         business processes.

                     3. Long-term and Intangible ROI (Usually several years)

4.  Why should ERP architecture include a discussion on organizational

structure,business process,and people instead just information and technology and systems?
 
Because ERP touted as the heart of the company which covers all the component or the scope of the company, and because ERP is an integral part of a company that produces information by using technology to improve the quality of the company in order to still be able to survive in the market
  

 5.Why is server-centric architecture better than client-centric architecture?

Because server-centric architecture enable us to access it from anywhere and anytime as long we can connect to the internet by using browser like internet explorer with a few plug-ins such as java virtual machine. There is no need for a user interface applications on the client.  Meanwhile, client-centric environments will needinstallation of Software Development Kits, proper configuration, and integration with the client device for the application to work properly.
Server-centric architecture have many more other benefits, including:

- Writing code in server-centric is more secure than client-centric as the business logic is not exposed client-side

- This architecture tend to be more productive as they allow direct access to server resources such as databases

- The system is implemented using frameworks so it will be easy to maintain


6. In general, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) allows in terms Flexibility,    Scalability, Usability than do traditional architecture. By reducing costs, accelerating the movement, and provide data.

These are some of the benefits in the short term. The main long-term benefit is to
provide flexibility to the traditional systems that do not have to provide services
anywhere on the system or network.

Benefits:

1. Services for business software across heterogeneous platforms

2. The service will always exist in the system and network

3. Searching dynamic and connectivity to other services 

Short-term benefits:

1. Increased reliability

2. The cost of hardware decreases

3. Provide a data bridge between the technology that is not compatible

Long-term benefits:

1. Provides the ability to build composite applications

2. Create a good infrastructure to reduce costs

3. Provide real-time decision making applications

Benefits Business Value:

1. Knowing the market demand quickly

2. Acquisition cheaper and maintenance technology

3. Empowering the management of business functions

4. Leveraging existing investments

Limitations:

1. The inconsistent performance

2. The security system must be advanced

3. Costs can be high because the service does not match expectations