Cloud Strategy Road

Map

Road Map

Critical Success Factors (CSF's)

Execution Plan
Risk Management

Critical Success Factors (CSF's)

Higher service levels for Modern Trade Customers
Overall Logistics Cost Control and Reduction

Transportation Cost
Safety Stocks
Mixed Product Categories
High Real Estate Cost

Seamless integration and Data Availability

Risk Management for an Org going for Cloud

Risk

Mitigation
Plan

Probab Impact
$
Index
ility
(Likert
Value
Scale: 1-7, 7
=> High
Impact)

Feasibility

Brokers
(Cloud)

X1

X2

X3

X1*X2*X
3

Security

Private

Y1

Y2

Y3

Y1*Y2*Y High
3
Priority

Business
continuity

Seamless
Integration
of systems

Z1

Z2

Z3

Z1*Z2*Z High
3
Priority

Cost

Remarks

Savings via C1
C2
C3
C1*C2*C Mid
Cloud
3
Priority
services &
Data
Availability
* RB would undertake less critical task first due to being in 3 rd phase of the

Cloud Brokerage
Aggregator
Which service IaaS
API's, UI's, Applications
Consultants

Integrator

Provide Infrastructure - HP, IBM

Service, adaptors
Security Data wrt Product Innovation, Patents & Copyrights
Shared service Logistics and Sourcing

Optimization of "On Premises" & Cloud Integration of JD Edwards ERP system, Manugistics
demand planning system, Oracle based PDP system, MRP system
Enabler
Compress data
Porting
"DR(Disaster Rights)" protection - for Business Continuity(BC)

Roadmap for Cloud

Identification of
different
processes
Identifying
processes
which can be
taken on cloud.
Finding out
transactions in
different
processes and
issues involved

Testing and
Verification
Creation of a
test
environment
Ensure all
processes work
as expected
Verify data
security and
recovery
Pilot run

Total Cost of
Ownership
More
investment
required for
Private cloud
Training costs in
order to
acquaint
internal
resources to
cloud services
Cross-functional
integration with
existing services
Linking existing
enterprise
services with
new services
Integration with
PDP tool and JD
Edward system
and ensuring
smooth
transition

Selection of Cloud
Service and
Deployment
model
Iaas and PaaS
to be adopted.
Evaluate
available
offerings and
associated risks

Revisiting Service
Level Agreements
Check whether
a service level
should be
improved or
lowered with
the adoption of
new strategy
Adding
appropriate
penalty clauses

Assigning roles
and
responsibilities
Determine
people who
would be
involved in
developing,
testing and
deployment of
the cloud
services

Maintenance and
support
Employee
support
services
Customer
support service
Disaster
recovery
program