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Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
General MillsInformation Systems
Careers
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
Agenda
• GMI• IS Culture • IS Structure• IS Technologies• Career Opportunities• SAP Careers at General Mills
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
General Mills
Worlds 7th largest food company
Marketed in more than 100 countries
$11 billion in sales
27,500 employees
HQ Minneapolis
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
Award Winning IS Division
“The 100 Best Places to work in IT”
“25 Most Influential IT Executives”
“HP Bravo Award”
“Information Week 500”
Four GMI Chairman's awards
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
IS Guiding Principles
• Hire great people, develop them, and value their contributions
• Partner with our businesses to achieve company goals while leveraging integration
• Leverage our strategic vendor partnerships for infrastructure, applications,& services
• Standardize technologies, systems, processes, & data
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
Information Systems Structure
• Centralized function – Focused, consistent and efficient
• Physically decentralized Application Development– High involvement w/ business partners– High business knowledge within IS– High business partner satisfaction
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
Information SystemsRole Break-out
IS Organization~ 600 Employees
ComputerOperations
~ 180
Desktop Services~ 120
Application Development
~ 300
SAP Systems~ 150
Non SAP Systems~ 150
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
Focused Architectures
SAP Applications
One of the largest single-instance implementations in the
world
HP 64 bit Itanium servers
HP-Unix
Oracle Relational Database
SAP GUI, SAP NetWeaver & mySAP
Web Applications
Early adopter of .NET.Integration across
applications.
Compaq Windows Servers
Windows XP
MS SQL Server
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
Career Development
• Clear & Individualized Career Paths
– 2-3 rotational assignments in first 5 years
– Individual Development Planning Process
– Technical and Management Ladders
– Entry level positions: Desktop Support Analyst, Programmer Analyst & SAP Programmer Analyst
• Excellent Skill Development
– Work with “team of experts” - turnover <2%
– Access to training & certification options and continued formal education
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
SAP Careers at General Mills
• SAP - Mainstream Leading Edge Technology
• SAP – Key Technology for all major business operations at General Mills
• Our SAP staff - Highly skilled and successful
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
SAP @ General Mills
• One of the worlds largest & most successful
implementations of SAP– Early adopter of SAP
– SAP is first consideration for any new application
– Projects managed by GMI - not consultants
– Full functionality & latest software release
• (ERP, HR, Data Warehouse, Analytical Applications)
– Consistent global rollout
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
General Mills Information Systems Application Portfolio
Finance• FI: Finance• CO: Controlling• COPA: Profit. Anal.• PS: Project Systems• FA: Fixed Assets• TR: Treasuary
Operations:• SD: Sales & Dist.• MM: Materials Mgmt• QM: Quality Mgmt• PP: Production Planning
Data Warehouse: SAP Business Warehouse
PLM:Product
Life Cycle Mgmt
APO:Forecast
&Demand optimiz.
HR:Human
Resources
SEM:StrategicBusiness Planning
ERP
SAP
Demand Chain
R&D and QRO HR Finance
•Hyperion – Consolidations•SMART – Tax Mapping•Expense Reporting•Gemini – Coupon Tracking•A&SP – Consumer Spending
Supply Chain •Retail Planner•Equity Marketing •Consumer Insights & Research•CRUNCH – Consumer Response
•WMS – Warehousing•SKEP – Production Planning•MQIS – Manuf. & Quality Rpts•Manugisitics – SC Mgmt•Maximo – Plant Maintenance
•Profile – Nutrient, Ingr/Formula•ECLIPS – Keyline workflow mgmt•ELN – Electronic Lab Notebook•QSD – Plant inspections/audits
•Apps/Stts – Time & Attendance•EBC – Equity Based Comp.•Brass Ring – Recruiting•Merit & Incentive•Medical
•Trade – Plan/ Pay/Analyze•VADR – Volume Analysis•Category Management
•Nistevo – Transportation Tours•Age Reporting & Trace Recall
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
2004 2005Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Treasury Upgrade to my SAP ERP
PLM
N.A. mySAP ERP
APO-SNP (Deployment)
SAP ProjectsSAP Projects
Irapuato -Irapuato -
(version 3/12/2004)
APPS/STTS (Big Ben)
BW 4.0 Eval.
Decent. Spec Rollout
HR – Single Sign-on
Merit/Incentive Study - TBD
HR – mySAP ERP
Material Master Archive
Capital Project Planning?Capital Project Planning?
Product Data ExpansionProduct Data Expansion
International
E-Recruiting?
HR – International Employee Master Data?
International ERP
CATS for EngineeringCATS for Engineering
Supplier Performance (Phase I)Supplier Performance (Phase I)
Plant Maintenance Prototype Plant Maintenance Prototype
N.A.ERPHotpack
A/P Re-EngineeringFront Page
SOX - ICE
TPM Study
Australia / New Zealand
Enterprise Unicode
Intl. BW Unicode
BW 3.5
CATS Analytics (BW)CATS Analytics (BW) xRPM? Engineering?xRPM? Engineering?
Supplier Performance (Phase II)Supplier Performance (Phase II)
Plant Maintenance? Plant Maintenance?
HR – Pension Payroll
HR – Canadian Payroll
Intl. SEM – Hyperion Repl.
Coupon
Netweaver (BW) 7.0
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
SAP Job AssignmentsEnhancing your career growth opportunities
A Day In The Life Of A:
Demand Chain
Supply Chain
HRIntegrated Systems
Inter - national
Operations
I.S. Analyst
Developer
Master Data Analyst
BW Analyst
Technical Writer
Basis Analyst
Security Analyst
Management
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
SAP Careers At General Mills
Growing your skills
• Conquering challenges
• Business process design
• Leading technologies
• Business understanding - depth & breadth
• Team building
• Communication
• Change management
• Leadership
• Making a difference
Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004
Thank Youwww.generalmills.com
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