1. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 General Mills Information Systems Careers

2. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Agenda GMI IS Culture IS Structure IS Technologies Career Opportunities SAP Careers at General Mills

3. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 General Mills Worlds 7 th largest food company Marketed in more than 100 countries $11 billion in sales 27,500 employees HQ Minneapolis

4. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Award Winning IS Division “The 100 Best Places to work in IT” “25 Most Influential IT Executives” “HP Bravo Award” “Information Week 500” Four GMI Chairman's awards

5. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 IS Guiding Principles Hire great people, develop them, and value their contributions Partner with our businesses to achieve company goals while leveraging integration Leverage our strategic vendor partnerships for infrastructure, applications,& services Standardize technologies, systems, processes, & data

6. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Information Systems Structure Centralized function –Focused, consistent and efficient Physically decentralized Application Development –High involvement w/ business partners –High business knowledge within IS –High business partner satisfaction

7. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Information Systems Role Break-out IS Organization ~ 600 Employees Computer Operations ~ 180 Desktop Services ~ 120 Application Development ~ 300 SAP Systems ~ 150 Non SAP Systems ~ 150

8. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Focused Architectures SAP Applications One of the largest single-instance implementations in the world HP 64 bit Itanium servers  HP-Unix  Oracle Relational Database  SAP GUI, SAP NetWeaver & mySAP Web Applications Early adopter of.NET. Integration across applications. Compaq Windows Servers  Windows XP  MS SQL Server  Microsoft Internet Explorer

9. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Career Development Clear & Individualized Career Paths –2-3 rotational assignments in first 5 years –Individual Development Planning Process –Technical and Management Ladders –Entry level positions: Desktop Support Analyst, Programmer Analyst & SAP Programmer Analyst Excellent Skill Development –Work with “team of experts” - turnover <2% –Access to training & certification options and continued formal education

10. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 SAP Careers at General Mills SAP - Mainstream Leading Edge Technology SAP – Key Technology for all major business operations at General Mills Our SAP staff - Highly skilled and successful

11. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 SAP @ General Mills One of the worlds largest & most successful implementations of SAP –Early adopter of SAP –SAP is first consideration for any new application –Projects managed by GMI - not consultants –Full functionality & latest software release (ERP, HR, Data Warehouse, Analytical Applications) –Consistent global rollout

12. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 General Mills Information Systems Application Portfolio Finance FI: Finance CO: Controlling COPA: Profit. Anal. PS: Project Systems FA: Fixed Assets TR: Treasuary Operations: SD: Sales & Dist. MM: Materials Mgmt QM: Quality Mgmt PP: Production Planning Data Warehouse: SAP Business Warehouse PLM: Product Life Cycle Mgmt APO: Forecast & Demand optimiz. HR: Human Resources SEM: Strategic Business Planning ERP SAP Demand Chain R&D and QRO HRFinance Hyperion – Consolidations SMART – Tax Mapping Expense Reporting Gemini – Coupon Tracking A&SP – Consumer Spending Supply Chain Retail Planner Equity Marketing Consumer Insights & Research CRUNCH – Consumer Response WMS – Warehousing SKEP – Production Planning MQIS – Manuf. & Quality Rpts Manugisitics – SC Mgmt Maximo – Plant Maintenance Profile – Nutrient, Ingr/Formula ECLIPS – Keyline workflow mgmt ELN – Electronic Lab Notebook QSD – Plant inspections/audits Apps/Stts – Time & Attendance EBC – Equity Based Comp. Brass Ring – Recruiting Merit & Incentive Medical Trade – Plan/ Pay/Analyze VADR – Volume Analysis Category Management Nistevo – Transportation Tours Age Reporting & Trace Recall

13. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Treasury Upgrade to my SAP ERP PLM N.A. mySAP ERP APO-SNP (Deployment) SAP Projects Irapuato - (version 3/12/2004) APPS/STTS ( Big Ben) BW 4.0 Eval. Decent. Spec Rollout HR – Single Sign-on Merit/Incentive Study - TBD HR – mySAP ERP Material Master Archive Capital Project Planning? Product Data Expansion International E-Recruiting? HR – International Employee Master Data? International ERP CATS for Engineering Supplier Performance (Phase I) Plant Maintenance Prototype N.A. ERP Hot pack A/P Re-Engineering Front Page SOX - ICE TPM Study Australia / New Zealand EnterpriseUnicode Intl. BW Unicode BW 3.5 CATS Analytics (BW) xRPM? Engineering? Supplier Performance (Phase II) Plant Maintenance? HR – Pension Payroll HR – Canadian Payroll Intl. SEM – Hyperion Repl. Coupon Netweaver (BW) 7.0

14. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 SAP Job Assignments Enhancing your career growth opportunities

15. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 SAP Careers At General Mills Growing your skills Conquering challenges Business process design Leading technologies Business understanding - depth & breadth Team building Communication Change management Leadership Making a difference

16. Indiana Kelley School SCOOP Session September 2004 Thank You www.generalmills.com