Assignments 2-Case Study Week 2

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LEGO – EMBRACING CHANGE BY COMBINING BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE WITH A FLEXIBLE INFORMATION SYSTEM
ASSIGNMENT 2 – CASE STUDY 4
TITLE: LEGO – EMBRACING CHANGE BY COMBINING BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE WITH A FLEXIBLE INFORMATION SYSTEM
LECTURER: PROFESSOR DR. RUSLI ABDULLAH
(email: rusli@upm.edu.my)
GROUP 13 Matrix No:
1. Hj Nasseruddin Bin Hj Abdul Jabar - P13D142P
2. Hj Zulkifflee Bin Hj Sofee - P13D136P
3. Chong Min Fatt - P13D154P
Prepared by: Hj Zulkifflee
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2. 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
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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.

4. 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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 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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6. 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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8. 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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10. Question 4. What are the main advantages and
disadvantages of having multiple database is a
distributed architecture? Explain.
Advantages
Multiple 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.
Conclusion
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15. THANK YOU
• PREPARED BY GROUP 13:
HAJI ZULKIFFLEE BIN HAJI SOFEE - P13D136P
HAJI NASSERUDDIN BIN HAJI ABDUL JABAR - P13D142P
CHONG MIN FATT - P13D154P
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