Case Study: Nestle's Success with Integrated Information Technology Infrastructure

Assessment
Brief:
Component B
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1) Does the biggest payback come from i) IT savings, ii) savings elsewhere in the business,
iii) higher sales, iv) something else?......................................................................................3
2) How to get the individual countries to take part and be involved in the project? How do you
avoid the 'kiss of death' which would be bestowed on an 'IT project driven from the center?6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
The growth and advancement of information and communication technology and supported
businesses in improving their capabilities and reaching new heights. Both small businesses as
well as multinational corporations have exploited information and communication technology for
a training better position in their industry and acquiring a global audience (Uddin, 2019). This is
specifically through in case of multinational companies as many corporations have adopted
different types of information communication technology to customers to their specific
requirements so that they are able to offer consumers better products and services. It can even be
said that absence of information and communication technology reduces the ability of an
enterprise to succeed on an international level because managing operations at international level
requires some extent of support from information and communication technology.
This report looks at the enterprise resource planning system which was adopted by the
Swiss company Nestle which was also termed as the implementation of GLOBE technology .
This report is based on the case study of Nestle achieving success on a global scale with the help
of one size which all enterprise systems implementation and instead answer the question about
what was the biggest payback from the implementation. In addition to this how individual
countries can be persuaded to take part and be involved in an international information
communication technology project and avoiding damages caused by IT projective in from the
centre (Freudenberg and Nestle, 2020).
MAIN BODY
1) Does the biggest payback come from i) IT savings, ii) savings elsewhere in the business, iii)
higher sales, iv) something else?
Nestle is a good manufacturing company based out of Switzerland with international reach and
white product portfolio. The company is currently headquarters in vevey Switzerland and was
founded in the year 1886. On the basis of revenue and other financial metrics Nestle is
considered as the worlds largest publicly held food company since the year 2014.
It is present on multiple stock exchanges across the world and is there a world renowned
band with huge success in different international markets including Europe America Asia and
Africa. This type of huge success often Nestle across the world cannot be only limited to its
product portfolio and quality of its products. In fact information and communication technology
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