Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 General Mills Information Systems Careers

Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

General MillsInformation Systems

Careers


Agenda

• GMI• IS Culture • IS Structure• IS Technologies• Career Opportunities• SAP Careers at General Mills


General Mills

Worlds 7th largest food company

Marketed in more than 100 countries

$11 billion in sales

27,500 employees

HQ Minneapolis


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


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


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


Information SystemsRole Break-out

IS Organization~ 600 Employees

ComputerOperations

~ 180

Desktop Services~ 120

Application Development

~ 300

SAP Systems~ 150

Non SAP Systems~ 150


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Thank Youwww.generalmills.com

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Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 General Mills Information Systems Careers