Data Management & Sustainability

J. Burger

EFT, Brussels November 2009

History

1871 Founded in Osnabrueck by Carl

Heinrich Hellmann

1949 Opening of the office in Hamburg

1953 Opening of the office in Bremen

1981 First high rack warehouse in Osnabrueck opens

1982 Opening of Hong Kong – later branches in China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam

1987 Opening of Sydney and later further

branches in Australia and New

Zealand

1988 The first US branch in Long Beach in

California was opened, further

expansion in the USA, Canada,

Mexico, South America and UK

2004 Induction of a new terminal in 2004 Induction of a new terminal in

Shanghai

2006 Opening of branches in Sri Lanka,

Japan and later in India and Pakistan

2007 Implementation of the European Logistic Centre for MAN

2008 New building in Osnabrueck wins the

Best Office Award‘

Facts and Figures

▪ 8,900 employees worldwide

▪ Turnover 2.87 billion Euro

▪ More than 13 million shipments per year,

51,800 shipments per day

Facts and Figures 2008

51,800 shipments per day

▪ 210 own branches in 45 countries

▪ Network: 16,500 employees in 443

branches in 157 countries

Products and Services

a(s) IS Landscape

To be IS Landscape

Customer Management

ProductionManagement

Financial Management

Controlling

Human Resource ManagementENTERPR

ENTERPRManagement Management Management

CRM

CDM

Air Sea Road CL AR/AP

Billing etc.

Enterprise Connectivity

RISE

PORTAL

RISE

PORTAL

7 years transitionFocus on : Interoperability, Common Data

Model, Seamless Integration

3 Key Points for a Programmer…. to ensure that your company does NOT develop good Data

Management & Technology Sustainability

1. Use always different naming conditions – the maintenance will

stay with you and your job safe.

2. Forget about structured programming as well as layeredmodells – performance is anyways better without this de-tours.

3. Create fast, hands on solutions to problems – they come fast,

never go away and again your job is safe.

3 Key Points for a Architect…. to ensure that your company does NOT develop good Data

Management & Technology Sustainability

1. Use different technologies for data modelling – who cares about

modells from yesterday.

2. Ensure you create enough application silos based on different

modells – only you are able to understand the why again later.

3. Flood your communication with buzzwords – that makes life

easier as most people will never ask.

3 Key Points for a CIO…. to ensure that your company does NOT develop good Data

Management & Technology Sustainability

1. Make sure your team has enough FTP and File Interfaces – forget

about programming standards etc. just implement the customer or

the function – and your job is safe.the function – and your job is safe.

2. Have a large group focusing on SOA – the more people think

about complexity the bigger it gets – a nice wall to hide behind.

3. Always allow your business to select their favourite applications –

who talked lately about governance and business and IT alignment ?

….. for a Company in Transition…. to ensure that your company DOES develop good Data

Management & Technology Sustainability

1. Ensure 80:20 in functionality – best practice is most of the times

better than what you have.

2. Layer your Enterprise Architecture based on abstract modelling –only this ensures to have the right functions in the right place.

3. Ensure corporate governance rules – make Information Systems asa topic a part of the Board Agenda not necessarily as a person.

Thanks for listening !