A&P_IT_System

A&P IT System What problems did A&P have with its business' A&P was once the most famous supermarket chain in the United States and it had one time the second largest revenue reported followed by General Motors in 1950. However, by 1990, this famous old America supermarket faced depression in its business mainly due to serious competition and its old information system, which could not keep up with new trends of business. Strong competitors such as Safeway, Kroger and Wal-mart have their excellent information system to help their decision makers to manage inventory efficiently and to serve customer better. In the other hand, A&P still had a number of serious problems. “Its obsolete information technology infrastructure was composed of a complex web of stitched-together old legacy systems. The company was primarily using 12- to 20-year-old software running on two large mainframe computers.” (Laudon, Pg 67). Loli explained, “We had extremely antiquated systems, from finance to merchandising to store and warehousing systems.” (Laudon, Pg 67). Basically, they had outdated software ap, system, software, information, computer, hardware, business, time, systems, old, wal-mart, technology, supermarket, speed, serious, same, problems, pg, outdated, new, makers, law, laudon, inventory, famous, every, efficiently, double, demand, decision, capability, 67, years, year, world