Mis Implementon by Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Problems before MIS Implementation and the MIS Solutions
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC) has been quite a success, being the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in the United States. This organization is a leader in manufacturing, selling and distributing. However, there were problems that occur in their project costs.
Based on a case study done by Microsoft in 2009, the company’s Information Systems and Service (ISS) Department had been utilizing a project management software solution where the maintenance agreement had already expired and this is where CCBCC expected an amount of time, money, and effort for upgrading this solution. Therefore in March 2007, the company’s ISS started to search for a better method to forecast and capture project costs. The company had lacked of many of the advanced functions that they wanted which included historical cost reporting and the capability to hold multiple project baselines according to Mary Morabito (2007), the Information Systems and Service Project Manager at CCBCC. Further dilemmas were occurring – they were unable to track cost elements, such as labour and material cost in one repository, Jason Charlisle, the Senior Property Accountant at CCBCC said this. In addition to what he said, senior management would want information on a project which includes the true cost to the company and this is where he said that they would want to spend ample time and put in more effort in gathering data from numerous locations.
In handling this situation, CCBCC decided on a few solutions to it. They thought about a few project and portfolio management vendors. So eventually it chose the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, which included Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Sercer 2007, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007. Morabito (2009) says that they would like to simplify their software footprint to consist mainly of SAP and Microsoft
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC) has been quite a success, being the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in the United States. This organization is a leader in manufacturing, selling and distributing. However, there were problems that occur in their project costs.
Based on a case study done by Microsoft in 2009, the company’s Information Systems and Service (ISS) Department had been utilizing a project management software solution where the maintenance agreement had already expired and this is where CCBCC expected an amount of time, money, and effort for upgrading this solution. Therefore in March 2007, the company’s ISS started to search for a better method to forecast and capture project costs. The company had lacked of many of the advanced functions that they wanted which included historical cost reporting and the capability to hold multiple project baselines according to Mary Morabito (2007), the Information Systems and Service Project Manager at CCBCC. Further dilemmas were occurring – they were unable to track cost elements, such as labour and material cost in one repository, Jason Charlisle, the Senior Property Accountant at CCBCC said this. In addition to what he said, senior management would want information on a project which includes the true cost to the company and this is where he said that they would want to spend ample time and put in more effort in gathering data from numerous locations.
In handling this situation, CCBCC decided on a few solutions to it. They thought about a few project and portfolio management vendors. So eventually it chose the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, which included Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Sercer 2007, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007. Morabito (2009) says that they would like to simplify their software footprint to consist mainly of SAP and Microsoft
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