A Tutorial Case Study: Pasta Company

Abstract

This case study is intended as a tutorial. The case solution is given up to the endof the business process redesign stage. The SAP implementation (quite similarto that described for EA Cakes Ltd.) is left to the readers of the book (or tothe students, if the book is used in education). The main lesson of this case isthe following: though the company does not look like EA Cakes Ltd., and thegoals of the production planning systems are different, nevertheless, analogousSAP solutions can be used to give computer support to the production planningstaff.