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CASE STUDY -1

Managing Technology Assets pay off for


American home products

 Presented by

Group-Vidyut
 Himanshu Jadaun(22)
 Manpreet Nagi(31)
 Pallab Bose(46)
 Sainyam Sharma(58)
 Sanjeeb Tamuli(60)
 Sumit Mishra(69)

CASE INTRODUCTION
ØAmerican home product , a pharmaceutical giant
well known for the drug Premarin.
ØAs of the annual report of AHP in early 2000, it
showed huge loss in 1999. Though AHP was in
profit in 1998.
ØAHP’s popular drug dexfenfluramine and
fenfluramine(fen-phen) caused heart damage in
some users.
ØHuge charges paid for settling lawsuit in october
1999.


Contd….
ØThe pharmacompanies were under huge
pressure in 1990s..reasons-
• Healthcare costs were increasing in US.
• Pressure from insurance companies to lower the
prices.
• Global competition

Measures taken by AHP
to reduce operating cost
ØERP
ØReform and consolidation of their networks.
ØImproved supply chain.
ØAsset Management of its IT infrastructure.
Drawbacks in IT infrastructure of AHP
ØCompany executives didn’t had knowledge about
their IT assets.
ØLack of communication
ØNo centralized management of record
(hardware/software)
ØEach unit maintained record in old fashioned
way.


Affects of IT infrastructure drawbacks
ØDuplication
ØThe loss of volume discount
ØPurchase of too many different systems
ØUnable to track vendor performance
ØCosts and contract execution could not be
controlled, monitored or understood.
 All these resulted in unnecessary increase in
expenses of AHP.
Issues faced by Bluestone while executing
asset management system
Management issues
Ø Cost factor
Ø Lack of control on different units
Organizational issues

Ø Networking of different units


Ø Lack of hierarchy
Technical issues

Ø Choice of software
Ø Implementation of software
Ø


Does the organization need to change the
way it does business

 Yes we agree that application of asset management


in an organization bring several changes in the way they
do business..like-
Ø Responsibility of each one is defined
Ø Time spent on inventories is reduced
Ø Proper flow of instruction is maintained
Ø
Conclusion
Ø Ultimately the top management decided to choose such
technology that was beneficial for their organisation
financially and technically also.
Ø They preferred a combination of Argis and
NetCensussoftware instead of taking ASP service.
Ø By using that company was able to manage their assets
properly and able to keep track on their hardware and
software assets.
Ø First the company applied this system in 20 units of US.
Later on to the whole unit.
THANK YOU

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