Implementation Strategy: Nestle's Enterprise Resource Planning System

Implementation Strategy

Introduction

Nestlé implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (EPR) system to its company. EPR is a method for solving a company’s problem. Implementation of an EPR system offers a company the chance to redesign their business process, coordinate the systems of geographically dispersed locations, consolidate date and also empower users by giving them the fully access to all the company’s data. But these opportunities take a high cost regarding monetary expenses. Due to the outcome, every EPR implementation holds significant lesson to be learned for organizations considering their own EPR implementation.

As for Nestlé USA, throughout the implementation, Nestle committed a few mistakes that almost failed the entire

After two years, they were able to recover the money that they spend on the system. Further on, Nestlé UK encountered the problem of decreasing their stock levels; they control their stock inventory and became ore disciplined attitude towards their business processes. Most important is about the ERP implementation at Nestlé UK encouraged a “culture of continuous improvement”. Nestlé said, in order to be success in this business, firstly is appreciate the internal opportunities, secondly, business-to-business and lastly business to consumer. This attitude is demonstrate by the fact that ERP implementation successfully pullout and they hired a process development manager. This development manager responsibility is to act as a bridge between business and the Information Technology department and to confirm that their employees concentrate on their job and continuously having improvement rather than just simply try to maintain the existing system without any

There were clearly breakdowns and also the way of solving problems and how did they success. Besides that, now they are successful and they now have the amount of money to consolidated the system that they having in place and the amount of the money that they are saving due to the ERP implementations. By looking at the encounter of Nestlé USA, different organization can learn same lesson also, so that it can be used for their company also. Most of these lesson and experience came from the reports of Nestlé USA executives.

The first lesson that can be learned from the Nestlé USA case is that in the first place for an ERP implementation to the effective as the right individuals need to be involved in the process from the beginning. Every company or human being is the same, we all learn from mistakes.

Besides this, another lesson that can be learned from Nestle USA case is that an ERP usage is not the venture of that organization should attempt to force into particular course. Moreover, with the fate of the organization, it is important to define that business goals of the project and then create a timeline that will help them accomplish those goals. Aim for the goal, do thing effectively and