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Marketing and Nestle

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Nestle Case Study What are the environmental and internal forces that argue for Decentralization Vs Centralization at Nestle? The “Nestlé way” is to dominate its markets. Its overall strategy can be summarized in four points: * think and plan long term * decentralize * stick to what you know * Adapt to local tastes For many companies, such a long-term strategy would not be profitable, but it works for Nestlé because the company relies on local ingredients and markets products that consumers can afford. It 's a global company living mostly on local brands. Company prefers to be local and people regional. Nestle grabs a lot of its growth simply by getting on the plane, and into new markets, first. Centralized: The …show more content…

Nestlé figured it could cut the number of suppliers on record to 167,000, from 600,000. And save $750 million a year in the process, Chief Financial Officer Wolfgang Reichenberger would figure in 2002. If GLOBE succeeded, Nestlé—and Brabeck—would have greater operating profits to plough back into innovation, stocking shelves with popular products and satisfying its main multinational customers, like Wal-Mart Stores and Tesco, the large United Kingdom-based food retailer. The GLOBE project also stood as the largest-ever deployment of mySAP.com. But whether the software got rolled out to 230,000 Nestlé employees or 200 was not the point. The point was to make Nestlé the first company to operate in hundreds of countries in the same manner as if it operated as one. And that hadn’t been achieved by any company—not evens the British East India Co. at the peak of its tea-trading power—in the history of global trade. Advantages: First the centralization of back-office functions such as financials and human-resources management should be done. Tasks such as producing consolidated reports on global operations become easier when the data is centralized in one database. For that reason, it may make sense to consolidate the back-office functions of an enterprise planning system, even

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