General Mills Information Systems Careers Indiana Kelley School

General Mills Information Systems Careers Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

Agenda GMI IS Culture IS Structure IS Technologies Career Opportunities SAP Careers at General Mills Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

General Mills Worlds 7th largest food company Marketed in more than 100 countries 11 billion in sales 27,500 employees HQ Minneapolis Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

Award Winning IS Division “The 100 Best Places to work in IT” “25 Most Influential IT Executives” “HP Bravo Award” “Information Week 500” Four GMI Chairman's awards Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

IS Guiding Principles Hire great people, develop them, and value their contributions Partner with our businesses to achieve company goals while leveraging integration Leverage our strategic vendor partnerships for infrastructure, applications,& services Standardize technologies, systems, processes, & data Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

Information Systems Structure Centralized function – Focused, consistent and efficient Physically decentralized Application Development – High involvement w/ business partners – High business knowledge within IS – High business partner satisfaction Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

Information Systems Role Break-out IS Organization 600 Employees Computer Operations 180 Desktop Services 120 Application Development 300 SAP Systems 150 Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Non SAP Systems 150

Focused Architectures SAP Applications Web Applications One of the largest singleinstance implementations in the world Early adopter of .NET. Integration across applications. HP 64 bit Itanium servers Compaq Windows Servers HP-Unix Windows XP Oracle Relational Database MS SQL Server SAP GUI, SAP NetWeaver & mySAP Microsoft Internet Explorer Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

Career Development Clear & Individualized Career Paths – 2-3 rotational assignments in first 5 years – Individual Development Planning Process – Technical and Management Ladders – Entry level positions: Desktop Support Analyst, Programmer Analyst & SAP Programmer Analyst Excellent Skill Development – Work with “team of experts” - turnover 2% – Access to training & certification options and continued formal education Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

SAP Careers at General Mills SAP - Mainstream Leading Edge Technology SAP – Key Technology for all major business operations at General Mills Our SAP staff - Highly skilled and successful Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

SAP @ General Mills One of the worlds largest & most successful implementations of SAP – Early adopter of SAP – SAP is first consideration for any new application – Projects managed by GMI - not consultants – Full functionality & latest software release (ERP, HR, Data Warehouse, Analytical Applications) – Consistent global rollout Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

General Mills Information Systems Application Portfolio WMS – Warehousing SKEP – Production Planning Nistevo – Transportation MQIS – Manuf. & Quality Rpts Tours Manugisitics – SC Mgmt Age Reporting & Trace Maximo – Plant Maintenance Recall Supply Chain APO: Forecast & Demand optimiz. PLM: Product Life Cycle Mgmt Demand Chain Trade – Plan/ Pay/Analyze VADR – Volume Analysis Category Management SAP ERP Operations: SD: Sales & Dist. MM: Materials Mgmt QM: Quality Mgmt PP: Production Planning Finance FI: Finance CO: Controlling COPA: Profit. Anal. PS: Project Systems FA: Fixed Assets TR: Treasuary Retail Planner Equity Marketing Consumer Insights & Research CRUNCH – Consumer Response HR: Human Resources SEM: Strategic Business Planning Data Warehouse: SAP Business Warehouse Profile – Nutrient, Ingr/Formula ECLIPS – Keyline workflow mgmt ELN – Electronic Lab Notebook QSD – Plant inspections/audits R&D and QRO Apps/Stts – Time & Attendance EBC – Equity Based Comp. Brass Ring – Recruiting Merit & Incentive Medical HR Hyperion – Consolidations SMART – Tax Mapping Expense Reporting Gemini – Coupon Tracking A&SP – Consumer Spending Finance Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

2004 SAP Projects 2005 (version 3/12/2004) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec N.A. ERP Hot pack Product Data Expansion BW 4.0 Eval. TPM Study Treasury Upgrade to my SAP ERP N.A. mySAP ERP BW 3.5 Irapuato - Coupon SOX - ICE A/P Re-Engineering Front Page Material Master Archive Netweaver (BW) 7.0 APO-SNP (Deployment) CATS for Engineering CATS Analytics (BW) Supplier Performance (Phase I) xRPM? Engineering? Supplier Performance (Phase II) Capital Project Planning? PLM Decent. Spec Rollout Plant Maintenance? Plant Maintenance Prototype HR – Pension Payroll HR – International Employee Master Data? HR – Canadian Payroll HR – Single Sign-on APPS/STTS (Big Ben) HR – mySAP ERP E-Recruiting? Merit/Incentive Study - TBD Intl. BW Unicode International ERP Enterprise Intl. SEM – Hyperion Repl. Australia / New Zealand International Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Unicode

SAP Job Assignments Enhancing your career growth opportunities A Day In The Life Of A: Demand Supply Chain Chain HR Integrated Inter Operations Systems national I.S. Analyst Developer Master Data Analyst BW Analyst Technical Writer Basis Analyst Security Analyst Management Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

SAP Careers At General Mills Growing your skills Conquering challenges Business process design Leading technologies Business understanding - depth & breadth Team building Communication Change management Leadership Making a difference Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004

Thank You www.generalmills.com Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004