Manufacturing Industry
Acquisition integration aided by business intelligence's single version of truth.(CASE-IN-POINT)
Manufacturing Business Technology, November, 2005
When San Francisco-based Del Monte purchased the business unit that made brands such as StarKist seafood and Kibbles 'n Bits dog food from H.J. Heinz, Del Monte management had a strategy for making the acquisition succeed. "The executive team, headed by [Chairman and CEO] Richard Wolford, insisted that we focus on forming one company, with standard processes, and that all decisions about how to make that happen be based on facts," recalls Andy Wojewodka, Del Monte's director of business systems and decision support.
"We had redundant systems and processes everywhere," Wojewodka adds. But the executive team's directive meant that only the best ones--whether they originated on the Del Monte or Heinz side of the corporate fence--would be retained. ...
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