LUIS MIGUEL CELY MORA

VALENTINA AGUILAR
IKEA CASE
There are applications such as enterprise resource planning, with which systems are
expected to increase efficiency as they promote the seamless integration of information
flows flowing through a company. Also, it improves the performance of technology and
product development through project management systems along with simulation and large-
scale computer modulation. An installation is defined as any equipment used to create or
transform products and information, IT systems are precisely facilities that process data
through complex hardware and software, these systems manipulate signals and symbols
and produce through internal hierarchical layers of symbols and messages that people use
as information to make decisions. The toolbox analyzes the facilities of each item, within the
technical affairs committee it refers to three other types of resources related to technical
development processes.

The resource that most interacts with the facilities is the product, any artifact exchanged
between economic agents. The Product in Focus is one of IKEA's biggest bestsellers in the
scope of the study application, limited to how PIAA is used for development projects on the
products. IKEA handles product development from an overall picture and business unit in
charge of developing the gap, the product and the connections to other resources are
introduced later. IKEA manages a worldwide organization of 65,000 employees, more than
550 directly controlled business units and 165 points of sale.

IKEA is a core business that collects, processes, and disseminates a large amount of
information, using computer media to facilitate activities ranging from order management to
product development. IKEA products are developed and designed for
manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail display. The production technology
enables IKEA to make strong and sturdy furniture that is both low weight because it is mostly
empty on the inside and built on the role of «honeycomb» structures. The IKEA developer
teams play a central role in the process, as they are in charge of initiating and managing all
development projects, the teams also include specialists providing their experience in
material and production technology.

Developers consider the entire IKEA system extending from raw materials to consumers'
homes and includes a few value-creating elements connected activities and
resources, IKEA's systems are expected to offer support for development projects. that
require large amounts of information and data to be collected, processed, and
disseminated. The administration of development projects is accomplished by entering and
retrieving data in a series of ''tabs'' within PIA that resemble a paper file. A ''planning'' tab
prompts product managers to enter the detailed time schedule for each project, including all
scheduled activities .

In addition, technical specialists are expected to compile the TEDs, while ISTRAs are
responsible for entering ''cost/price'' and ''supplier'' information into the PIA. PIA produces
and disseminates a large amount of product information that becomes highly relevant to
many more individuals in the rest of the IKEA organization, all the way down to the retail
stores . News, TEDs, and all store information carriers depend on regular and accurate
inclusion of data in PIA by product developers and other IKEA-oS
stakeholders. However, most of the interaction between people involved in development
projects occurs outside the PIA system, through face-to-face meetings, discussions, etc...
Use of PIA in the "printed veneer":

In 1999, IKEA-oS initiated a large and extensive project addressing the veneer problem in
Lack. IKEA wanted to lower costs by eliminating veneers, but at the same time offer
consumers the «veneer feel» with comparatively good aesthetic results.
What role did the PIA system play in the printed veneer project?
In turn, this type of formalization imposes the institution of routines to create documents
that must be detailed, unambiguous and even binding for the supplier, IKEA-oS and the
IKEA retail organization. The two most important documents to be created are the TEDs
and the notices, which are generated by the retail-oriented part of PIA and transmitted to
the IKEA retail organization.
Case analysis: PIA, a network-integrated or non-networked IT facility?
In fact, IKEA is populated by many enterprise IT systems that vary in function and
extent. The underlying logic is that these IT systems must be able to track data and
information about all core processes and activities involving internal and external
resources in the IKEA system , from development to production, from transportation to
storage, from ordering to retailing.
Which IT system features and functions are used or not used or stimulated to even
be blocked?
An analysis of the business network of a computer system usually reveals that there are
many more users than intended and explicitly recognized, where some are direct
users, while others use the information transmitted by the system, some are active
users, also involved in entering data into the system, while others are only passive users.

All computer systems represent resources in some way.

Some IT systems may be a precondition for a certain behavior of a business unit.
systems automatically monitor and issue signals about products, facilities, business
units, and relationships.
IT systems perform calculations on products, facilities, units and relationships.
computer systems directly direct the operations of computerized production facilities.
systems can serve as a bridge for information and data flows between units and between
other computer systems, even if they were not originally conceived as ''communication
tools''.
systems require data input from a business unit that encodes the relevant information, or
from another computer system. In addition, data input from other computer systems often
involves coding of the information and time-consuming manual feeding, which is done
elsewhere.