New Systems Help Work Flow More Smoothly at Moen Case Study Team MIS 535 – Managerial Applications of Information Technology

New Systems Help Work Flow More Smoothly at Moen Summary In 1939 Al Moen founded Moen Incorporated which is North America's number one faucet brand. Besides faucets, Moen also produces a broad range of household applia ...

New Systems Help Work Flow More Smoothly at Moen Summary In 1939 Al Moen founded Moen Incorporated which is North America's number one faucet brand. Besides faucets, Moen also produces a broad range of household appliances such as sinks, showerheads and other varieties of accessories. With the constant launching of new products capital expenses rise for product development, which is why Moen implemented SAP to help with the breakdown of sales, service, and manufacturing. SAP was helping Moen Inc. become more efficient, but recently initial capital expense became an issue again. After researching they figured that how they were requesting capital costs were too manual and only a few finance companies could understand their application. Another problem was manual documents easily lost or replaced, and with his manufacturing companies being in different countries it's hard to get in touch and ask about information. Once Moen became aware of the situation he decided to find an electronic system that will work with SAP as other software systems they have. With the help with Clear Process Solutions, Moen chose a software in 2013 with Winshuttle. In our topic discussion, we're going to discuss Winshuttle helped Moen with the effects and the implementation process that had to take place. Support According to Bloomberg.com, "Moen Incorporated is a company which designs and manufactures kitchen and bath faucets, shower, accessories, bath safety products and kitchen sinks for residential and commercial applications in the United States and internationally (Bloomberg, 2017)." The company was founded in 1937 by Alfred M. Moen and has its headquarters in North Olmsted, Ohio. Al was the one who invented and created the Single Handle Kitchen Faucet in 1939. The company was formerly known as Stanadyne, Inc. and changed its name to Moen Incorporated in November 1989. It has offices in Oakville, Canada; San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico; Guatemala, Guatemala; Shanghai, China; Gurgaon, India; And Hong Kong. Moen Incorporated is a subsidiary of Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. Moen used Winshuttle as a solution to help streamline their business process better. As a lightweight alternative to Master Data Management for large projects, Winshuttle offers a web-based application with data entry forms in SAP. Among its other tools, Studio Query software makes it possible to perform operational reporting in Excel from the data of the ERP. Winshuttle was initially known as its bulk load data into SAP solutions from Excel or Microsoft SharePoint. For intensive users of ERP, Studio is an alternative input for superior productivity. Also, the publisher of Winshuttle has developed another tool, called Foundation, to design light applications over SAP. Nowadays, this product has evolved with over thousands of customers worldwide. (Winshuttle.com, 2017) Based on data in current times, companies have to involve management information systems for them to stay competitive. With the rising of information systems to manage the business, a company can either be forced out of the market by other firms due to competition or close its operations due to increased cost operations and low-profits inflow (Peters, Richardson & Weidmenmeir, 2012). This is the main reason why Moen had to involve management information systems, and Winshuttle was the best choice. Winshuttle proved to be the best option for Moen since it posed characteristics of a sound management system. It was clear and easy to use since the users can automate the relevant processes with no or minimum IT support. The implementation of Winshutlle system replaced the old manual process where operations were passed from one inbox to another. Also, the software enabled users to build and adapt Excel and SharePoint-based interactive form which is less costly and also does not compromise on the security controls (Willcocks, 2013).