Lego embracing change by combining business intelligent with a flexible information system

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ASSIGNMENT 2 – CASE STUDY 4TITLE: LEGO – EMBRACING CHANGE BY COMBINING

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WITH A FLEXIBLE INFORMATION SYSTEMLECTURER: PROFESSOR DR. RUSLI ABDULLAH

(email: [email protected])

GROUP 13 Matrix No:1. Hj Nasseruddin Bin Hj Abdul Jabar - P13D142P

2. Hj Zulkifflee Bin Hj Sofee - P13D136P3. Chong Min Fatt - P13D154P

Prepared by: Hj Zulkifflee

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INTRODUCTION

• The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen• The world’s fourth-largest manufacturer of toys.• The original Lego toys started with a wooden duck.• On 7 June 1968, the first Legoland Park was opened in Billund.• In 1969, the Duplo system went sale. This was a newly developed

system, targeted towards younger children.• With such a vast international expansion, Lego needs to keep track of

its operations efficiently. Lego uses the SAP business suite system for this purpose.

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Questions

LEGO – EMBRACING CHANGE BY COMBINING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WITH A FLEXIBLE INFORMATION SYSTEM

Question 1. Explain the role of database in SAP’s three go system?

Question 2. Explain why distributed architecture are flexible?

Question 3.Identify some of the business intelligence features included in SAP’s business software suite?

Question 4. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of having multiple database is a distributed architecture? Explain.

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Question 1. Explain the role of database in SAP’s three go system?

First tier, a client interface – a browser- type graphical user interface (GUI) running on either a laptop, desktop, or mobile device-submits users’ requests to the database-system-receive and process clients requests to the database system-the third tier-which consists of one or more relational databases.

SAP’s business suite supports database from different vendors, including those offered by Oracle, Microsoft, MySOL, and others.

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continue The relational database contain the tablets that store data on LEGO’s products, daily operations, the supply chain, and thousands of employees.

Managers can easily use the SAP query tool to obtain reports from the databases, because it does not require any technical skill.

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Question 2. Explain why distributed architecture are flexible?

Because they adapting company operations to these changes required a flexible and rebust IT infrastructure with business intelligence capabilities that could help management perform better forecasting and planning.

LEGO chose to move to SAP business suite software, SAP AG, a German company that specializes in enterprise software solutions, is one of the leading software companies in the world.

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SAP’s software products include a variety of applications designed to efficiently support all of a company’s essential functions and operations.

LEGO chose to implement SAP’s Supply Chain Management (SCM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) modules.

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Question 3.Identify some of the business intelligence features included in SAP’s business software suite?

Supply Chain Management (SCM): Included features such as supply chain monitoring and analysis as well as forecasting, planning and inventory optimization.

Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) module enables managers to optimize development processes and systems.

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Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) modules includes among another applications, the Human Capital Management (HCM) application for personnel admistration and development.

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Question 4. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of having multiple database is a distributed architecture? Explain.

AdvantagesMultiple database contains the tables that store

data on products, daily operation, supply chain and thousand of employees.

Managers can easily use the SAP query tool to obtain reports from the database because it does not require any technical skill.

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Advantages Distributed architecture enables

authorized personnel to have direct access to database system from the company’s various locations including in Europe, North America and Asia.

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Disadvantages The additional overhead of these

transactions can be a performance penalty when the total amount of data in the network is small.

Users also see slower performance when accessing user data that is not local.

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Disadvantages Increased the use of database space. Every

table must exist in every database. When the number of tables is very large, the amount of space used this way can be significant.

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As a conclusion, combining business intelligence with a flexible information is very important.Due to changing, in business Intelligence features some SAP’s business suite such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) module,Enterprise Resources Planning(ERP) modules and also the Human Capital Management (HCM) application which is for personnel administration and development play important role.

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HAJI ZULKIFFLEE BIN HAJI SOFEE - P13D136PHAJI NASSERUDDIN BIN HAJI ABDUL JABAR - P13D142PCHONG MIN FATT - P13D154P

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