8:28 -.. 10 Nestl case study - Read only Read Only - You can't save changes to this file. Nestle ERP - New Systems & Processes In June 2000. Nesse SA signed a much publicized 200 million contract with SAP? and threw in an addition milion for coding and maintance to talan ERP system for its global antart. The Sand-cardure goods gant interes to the SAP system to help Curtalize a conglomerate that curs 200 operating companies ind tidades inmune Not surprisingly a more of this magnitude pared skepom Arne Alexandre analyst who czwar Nest for HSBC Secure in London the company is traded only in Europe, downgraded har condition on stock a year after the project was announod. While she say that ERP system will have long term benefits, she is wary of what the project wil do to the compan along the way. touches the corporate culture, which is decentralized and tries to centralize it.sh says. "That's risky, is always a risk when you touch the corporate outure." tin art that Jari Dunn, vion president and Codes USA the $8.1 on US today, knows too wel. In 1997, the Glendale. Call based company embered on an SAP project code named Best Business excellence through Systems technology. By the time it reaches the finish line Best wil we gobbled up skyears and more than $200 milion the same amount is grobal peront intends to spend Dunn now says she was the light at the end of the bannel The last roots will take place in the first quarter of 2009. But the implementation has been fraught with dead ends and cesty. It is cautionary til lasacra ritory for its Swasparent but for any Fortune 1000 company in an enrise wide was implementation book contornine autonomous division and said we are going to be common proces, and organization camera Dunneste SA is looking at Tous countries and ng the same thing. They reprgfup a reach they go in with an audeathere's not going to be resistans and as they're going to be disappointed." Nestle's gobal SAP project, which is tied in to a larger 5500 milion hardware and software data center resoul wil be integrated with its American subordiay's soon to be completed ERP.And Dun is geen lending 70 of her own stor for the global Inte, as well as some other hand-on apertu. But while the vascut in all out on the global pred, the pain angry employees,coaty Neangrering and long periods when it seemed the project would never end? Wie worth to Nesse USA, Dunn says. To she claims the Best project has saved the company $3,25 million Because Nesisteacute;is headquartered outside the United States, it doesn't have to discloses francial information to the SEC) Regardless of the project at ROI, the consumed redThe primary lesson Dunn saya she has taken away from the project is this. No major store inplantation la really about the tware. It's about change management you weren't concerned with how the businessman you could probably install the ERP share in 1810 24 months," she says. Then you would probably in the complaining in 1926 m Nestered the hard way that a reprise wide rol in much more than amply in sota When you move to SAP, you are changing the way people work. Dun says. "You are challenging their principles, their beliefs and the way they have done things for many, many years The Wol: 2 Brands of Vila Varillas may be the world's last editing ingredient? the word is een synonym for bland Dutta want the USA where alla presented a piquant pisthora of inefficiencies and mased opportunities Before 1991, Neste was simply a collection of independently operating brands, such as Stouffer's