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Electronic Industry- A world Leader
- One of the world's largest electronics companies
- Headquarter in Europe
- 262,500 employees in more than 60 countries
- Sales: USD 41 Billion in 1996
- Product Divisions: Lighting, Semiconductors, Components, Consumer Products, Professional Products & Systems, Software and Services.
- World Leader: Lighting, Color TV, Electric Shavers and recorded Music (Polygram)
R/3 at one of the product divisions:
- Implementation of globally standardized system in 120 sites, covering 60 sites.
- Global Standardization.
- Integral Supply Chain Management.
- Investments in future information Architecture.
- Managing Change is the Key issue.
Objectives to be achieved at the end of the SAP R/3 implementation
- Integrated Supply Chain Management of goods, money and information, covering 80% of the turnover, supported by SAP R/3 system.
- One common system, with local update for country specifics based on SAP R/3.
- World-wide availability of on-line, real-time transactions 24 hours a day.
- Consistent, reliable and accessible data within 2 seconds response time.
- Plug and play infrastructure, including connectivity for customer and supppliers.
- End-to end systems management control, based on common operating environment, central configuration and release control.
- Measurable and comparable IT operation cost.
- Different way of working, different processes.
- No consistent data management/data ownership.
- 4000 point to point interfaces.
- 8000 connected end-users.
- Different hardware platforms, from mainframe to Unix servers.
- Yearly update of the IT strategy and IT master plan.
- Global commonality (Processes, master data and way of working) drives uniform IT systems policy.
- Business ownership of Re-engineering and improvements program, including IT projects.
- Virtual networking within small business entities needs global information & data access, on line and real time.
- IT becomes a critical business enabler.
- Same processes companywide globally
- Core Configuration by experts
- Roll out of the core configuration worldwide in 5 years with minor configuration touches
- Confirming 'Business Scenarios' worldwide to ensure minimum gaps in core configurations thus minimum change in configuration to suite local requirements and to ensure 'same process worldwide' policy.
- The company has successfully implemented SAP R/3 in it's head office in Europe and few plans in different parts of the world in the first phase.
- Global Rollout is going on successfully as per the plan.
- Global rollout in all the plans and sales offices will be finished by year 2002.