MIS

Case study – Honda Motors

BY
JYOTINDRA ZAVERI

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 MIS
 Managementt Information
M I f ti Systems
S t i a
is
general name for the academic discipline
covering the application of people,
technologies and procedures — collectively
technologies,
called information systems — to solve
business problems.
 A d
Academically,
i ll the
th term
t is
i commonly l used d to
t
refer to the group of information management
methods tied to the automation or support of
h
human decision
d i i making,
ki e.g. Decision
D i i
Support Systems, Expert systems, and
Executive information systems

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 THE MIS ADVANTAGE
 THROUGH COLLABORATIVE
SOLUTIONS FOR PLANNING,
REPORTING AND ANALYSIS; MIS
EMPOWERS COMPANIES TO DRIVE
PERFORMANCE IN TOMORROW’S
DYNAMIC MARKET PLACES

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 P
Presenting
ti ttwo cases

 HONDA

 BAYER

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 MIS USING DECISION
DECISION-WARE
WARE
Each quarter Honda Motor Europe updates
its pricing and profitability-forecasting
system, which breaks down the
factory to showroom prices and costs
factory-to-showroom
for its 14 different models.
The system was based on 182 linked
spreadsheets with each of the thirteen
spreadsheets,
countries requiring separate files listing
the details of each model, exchange
rates and other key variables.

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 MIS USING DECISION
DECISION-WARE
WARE
Honda Motor Europe chose
MIS software package, a
multidimensional analytical
y
engine with seamless
integration into MS Excel
During the first two days the
project team discussed and
optimized the structure of the
database before embarking
on the detailed development
work. At the end of ten days
the model was up,up running
and fully documented.
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 Bayer
 Due to the company's substantial global
presence, enterprise planning and
control present a significant challenge for
B
Bayer. E t
Enterprise
i reporting,
ti ffor example,
l
must account for heterogeneous system
environments, multiple languages,
currencies and even time zones
zones.
 Bayer, therefore, elected to replace its
technically obsolete reporting system
with a state-of-the-art
state of the art information system
with a client-server architecture and a
graphical user-interface.

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 Bayer

Bayer created ‘BayInfo’, a customized

MIS ((management
g information
system) built using various
components of MIS, Excel Integration
as the flexible front end and centralized
data storage
storage.
 CIO took on the task to implement a
system that all affiliated companies
could use for reporting to the Group's
Group s
headquarters in, Germany.

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 THANKS

PRESENTATION BY
JYOTINDRA ZAVERI
(Computer Engineer, Germany)
I. T. CONSULTANT ….. SINCE 1975

email j.zaveri@dnserp.com

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