Case Study
Promoting Business Process Re-engineering by Rebuilding the Enterprise Systems with Cloud
IT Case Study NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL CO., LTD. Considering the enterprise systems rebuild with cloud computing NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN CHEMICAL is producing a wide range of revolutionary products including new materials for cellular phones and similar. The company has formulated a “grand design” of long-term goals to be attained by the year 2020 and is currently promoting business process re-engineering to achieve the goals. As part of this drive, the company began to look into rebuilding its enterprise systems in the autumn of 2010. The systems were running on mainframe computers but were suffering from various drawbacks, such as lack of functions for multi-type small-lot production, and the difficulty of adapting to new or revised legal regulations. As a result, a pla