Consumer Goods Manufacturing

Yobel Supply Chain Management, based in Lima, Peru, provides customers in Latin America and the United States with supply chain planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. With growing competition and increased demand for innovation in bringing products to market, Yobel began surveying customers, partners, and employees on their operational efficiency and service. But without a structured process for gathering and using feedback, data entry and analysis were slow and ineffective. Yobel deployed the 2007 Microsoft® Office system to standardize and automate the assessment process. Using this integrated system of programs, Yobel can automatically generate survey forms, aggregate and analyze response data, and dynamically display results using charts and performance indicators. Yobel eliminated tedious manual data work and gained valuable insights that customers can view online.

General Mills Manages Information with Comprehensive Records Management

One of the largest food-product manufacturers in the world, General Mills operates in more than 100 countries. Like any global enterprise, General Mills generates an enormous number of electronic records that need to be managed for varying degrees of retention and easy access by authorized users. General Mills needed to develop an enterprisewide records management system to store, prioritize, and manage its very high volume of electronic records while minimizing disruption to the way people worked. The company used Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to develop a records management solution to store and manage millions of documents. General Mills is implementing coherent records retention policies, managing the capacity of its data center, reducing costs, saving time, and improving the ability of employees and decision makers to locate and access the information they need.

Tyson Foods Improves Collaboration and Business Insight, Creates Process Efficiencies

Every day, the 15,000 information workers at Tyson Foods share information with one another to develop and market hundreds of products. To speed employee connections, strengthen business insight, and improve efficiency, Tyson deployed Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 as its companywide collaboration platform. Using the software’s Enterprise Search capability, employees can find the people and data they need quickly, and employees have created more than 700 personal sites to share skills and experience. Users can access dashboards that expose SAP data through SharePoint sites to aid decision making, as well as business intelligence tools that integrate with Microsoft Office desktop programs for improved insights. In addition, the IT staff has been able to quickly create powerful, new Office Business Applications that are boosting productivity and savings across the company.

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