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From order-to-cash to wall-to-wall: Four SAP implementations at Smithfield Foods

Site: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2043886918819302

Can you answer these questions after reading the article above?

Questions:

1. First SAP implementation (2005): what were the business reasons for replacing the existing systems? Which business processes were targeted by the new system? How and why was SAP selected? How was the migration planned and managed?
2. Second SAP implementation (2008): what were the business reasons for the system change? What was included in the system scope? How was the migration planned and managed? What benefits were achieved?
3. Third SAP implementation (2014): what were the business reasons for system change? Which business functions were affected? How did the two systems get integrated? What benefits were achieved?
4. Why did Smithfield need to customize the SAP system? Explain the tradeoffs between process reengineering and customization. Give examples.
5. Fourth SAP implementation (2017): What were the business reasons for system change? How different is the SAP S/4 HANA from R/3? How was the migration planned and managed? What benefits were achieved?

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