Brose Case Study
1. What is the Brose Groups business and what are the critical success factors (CSF’s) in a business like Brose’s? [lists] * International automobile industry and delivery mechatronic system and electric drives to automotive manufacturers and suppliers * Brose standardize their operation, and uses ERP application. * Well-established Information technology management * Hire professional consultants to train employees * to better use ERP application system
2. What operational, management and control, and corporate learning/innovation challenges were faced by Brose during its rapid expansion over the last two decades? [table] Operational | Management and control | Corporate innovation | Difficult to get customer’s data or suppliers data from each department | Hard to control the business between two countries | Innovate products but hard to sell to customers | Difficulty of transmitting information to different countries | Making decisions might cost longer time due to the database that has not been integration | Spend a long time to adjust company’s structure to better adapt the expansion in the international business | Making traffic between different countries will be hampered because of lake of integrate system | Hard to capture inventory situation, so it might lead to wrong forecast about company’s abilities of storage | |
3. What would be the benefits and the risks of retaining the functional application software found in each Brose location prior to the move to SAP? [table] Benefits | Risks | It connect many applications, like accounting, HR, manufacturing and supply chain management | Hamper communication among suppliers, plants and customers | Vertical business application, manage transaction and can share data | Cannot to support the company's emerging operational, control and planning/innovation need | | Lake of standardize because of many different information systems |
4. What were the
2. What operational, management and control, and corporate learning/innovation challenges were faced by Brose during its rapid expansion over the last two decades? [table] Operational | Management and control | Corporate innovation | Difficult to get customer’s data or suppliers data from each department | Hard to control the business between two countries | Innovate products but hard to sell to customers | Difficulty of transmitting information to different countries | Making decisions might cost longer time due to the database that has not been integration | Spend a long time to adjust company’s structure to better adapt the expansion in the international business | Making traffic between different countries will be hampered because of lake of integrate system | Hard to capture inventory situation, so it might lead to wrong forecast about company’s abilities of storage | |
3. What would be the benefits and the risks of retaining the functional application software found in each Brose location prior to the move to SAP? [table] Benefits | Risks | It connect many applications, like accounting, HR, manufacturing and supply chain management | Hamper communication among suppliers, plants and customers | Vertical business application, manage transaction and can share data | Cannot to support the company's emerging operational, control and planning/innovation need | | Lake of standardize because of many different information systems |
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