Sap Ag and Brady Corporation Redesign

Case Study Can Brady corporation Re foundation Its Systems for Success? Executive Summary The Brady Corporation is branded as the oldest & the most successful companies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin founded in 1915 and a leader in high performance labels, signs and related industrial safety products. They give up 44 task units that produce and distribute its labels from 47 locations in 20 countries on five continents around the knowledge domain. Despite its growing success, the company found it was campaign into trouble in the mid 1990s that fear of f bothing in arrears with its competitors in the use of Internet to save costs on already low profit margins.In 1997, Brandy launched a major Web job the new digital governing body was called Web-to-Workbench which enable customers to be able to design and order their own signs online and the website would automatically forward the new order to its deed facility. However problems were encountered Brady relied heavily on tuition syste ms (IS) to support most of its business process, but were antiquated (out of date), & could non communicate with for each one other.In February 1999 Hudsons assess the company could not continue growing because it was Stymied by an bag that had reached well beyond practical limits She concluded that the company must pass by its business process totally to move fully into the digital age. Brady call for to revamp al its system. The goal business-led Project for the on the whole company and not just a softw be or information technology pick up was made clear by CFO David Schroeder Brady. I. Viewpoint From the Bradys chief executive officer KATHERINE HUDSON II. Time Context In year 2000III. Statement of the Problem dis head enterprise software was not a good foundation for Bradys new systems creating problems in various areas of the company. IV. Statement of the Objectives 1. In year 2000, wipe out will tie-up with other systems projects 2. In year 2003 upon installation and interrogation of all systems and then if it fails, its time for Brady to redesign its system 3. aim people for maintenance of the new information system for the company simultaneously with the installation of the system. V. Areas of Consideration TOWS MATRIX Strengths Weaknesses Business units act independently from each The pioneer in high performance label and other. signs. information systems are not in synch with each Has 44 business unit for the manufacture of itsother. products Information systems are out of date. Has a unique system that lets customers customise their own design in the product they intend to purchase. Opportunities SO WO Maxi-Maxi dodging Mini-Maxi dodge Use a firms internal strengths to dispense This are strategies aimed at improving internal advantage of external opportunities weaknesses by taking advantage of external opportunities Threats ST WT 1. Brady is falling behind with its competitorsMaxi-Mini Strat egy Mini-Mini Strategy in the use of Internet to save costs on already low profit margins. Use a firms strengths to nullify or reduce the This are defensive tactics directed at reducing impact of external threats internal weaknesses and avoiding external threats VI. Assumption Computers and Information Systems Year In Review 2001 The recession year 2001 hit the computers and information systems sector hard. Already reeling from the collapse of dot-com companies a year earlier, the constancy had to deal with reduced demand for its products and services. That in turn produced a bulletproof stream of corporate cutbacks and layoffs. The terrorist attacks in the U. S. on September 11, which stunned the world and sent the U. S. consultation Encyclop? dia Britannica. om, retrieved from Analysis The information age had run a wall in its technological advances. After the millennium bug the word about the dot. com collapse and the terrorist attacks, people begun to qu estion the reliability of computers and the system. Companies began searching for a cheaper and more reliable system to place. exhaust Needs More than tech Help to Fix Problems SAP has made a lot of gravid headlines. An SAP rollout at Levi Strauss went awry, leading to delayed product shipments for a whole week during the second quarter, which in turn caused a bad mesh quarter. News of price hikes and a forced transition to the new SAP Enterprise support. Silicon. om best summed up the problem that this SAP is claiming this as an deepen offering, it is difficult to see how it will be able to justify this take aim of fees for customers whose deployments are complete or which do not wish to upgrade. Source ITBusinessEdge, Lorraine Lawson, July 2008 Analysis Systems had become unreliable that companies in the US had become hesitating in installing new and improved information system in their production. Another bad scenario that had come up is the burst of the dot. com bubble di fference most Ameri potentiometers awry about computers and the system that runs them. VII. Alternative Courses of perform ACA 1 Change for Oracle System ACA 2 Hire technicians to troubleshoot and upgrade the system ACA 3 Extensive use of the internet for the conglutination of transaction of all units of Brady corp. VIII. ANALYSIS ACA 1ACA 2 Hire technicians to troubleshoot and upgrade the system Advantages By hiring technicians, they can do preventive maintenance of Bradys system and at the same time can upgrade the system. The can install programs that can help Brady in its information system problems. Disadvantages More expensive because of the human beings factor that is attached upon the ACA ACA 3 Extensive use of the internet for the unification of transaction of all units of Brady corp. Advantages Internet usage had been proven less costly and the vastness of its reach is unlimited. Disadvantages Brady might just replicate the problem that it already has. IX. Conclusion D ecision Matrix Criteria ACA 1 ACA 2 ACA 3 Cost-driven 1 3 Effectiveness 4 4 Easy to implement 3 4 Total Rating 1-4 (1 is the lowest and 4 is the highest) X. Plan of Action Activities Person in-charge Costs Timeframe ACA 1 HRD The minimum wage it has to pay 2001 ACA 2 for the technicians that will handle the information system (44Business Units/One person per unit) I. T. / engine room Dept. Internet usage is said to be 2001 ACA 3 free of charge but the system that a company has shell out to have a decent internet connection varies