Can I have the names of all manufacturing companies in the Minneapolis
/ St. Paul area that are running SAP enterprise wide software in their
facilities and headquarters?

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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 08 Nov 2002 10:13 PST

Georgesdad --

Having done user searches for several enterprise installations, we can
usually find a number of companies, but alas -- only SAP could
identify them all.  Well, knowing SAP, maybe not.

But a quick check reveals at least a dozen SAP users in your area. 
Please let me know if you'd like a researcher to proceed on that
basis.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Request for Question Clarification by kyrie26-ga on 08 Nov 2002 15:45 PST

Hi georgesdad-ga,

It would be impossible to list ALL the companies in
Minneapolis/St.Paul using SAP. Will you accept a list that does not
include ALL? How big of a list are you looking for?


kyrie26-ga

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Clarification of Question by georgesdad-ga on 11 Nov 2002 07:23 PST

Good morning and thank you for your interest in answering this
question. My satisfaction would increase in direct porportion to the
list size, thus anything is better than nothing. So - 12 names is
worth it, but if Kyrie26 can supply a list that dwarfes the 12 I would
naturally be interested in that.

Now lets talk about money- the original 50 bucks I will pay to
whomever gets me a list with at least 15 company names on it in the
general Mpls/StPaul vicinity. After that I am willing to re-negotiate
and pay extra for more. Is that allowed?

I hope this is helpful.

Georgesdad –

Here's a list of companies using SAP in Minnesota, including some
contact people.

One source of data is Minnesota SAP Users group:
ASUG, Region: Minnesota
(undated)
http://www.asug.com/events/location.cfm?area=14

I've left out specific e-mail addresses for contacts, as this is a
very public forum.  But by using the ASUG link above you can find
e-mail links for many of the people mentioned.

Another source of SAP users is culled from looking at who's hiring SAP
specialists.  Several may be in service-related businesses (such as
Blue Cross or two of the power companies) but I've provided them as
well:

ADC
Eden Prairie, MN  55344
* Nancy Chauvet, Heidi Hegenbarth, Mike Krzmarcik, Stacie VerBrugge,
Bob Wiley

Allete, Inc.(Minnesota Power)
30 W. Superior St.
Duluth, MN  55802

Blue Cross
Eagan, MN
* Don Schwarzhoff

Boston Scientific/Scimed 
One Scimed Place 
Maple Grove,  MN  55311-1566 

Buckbee-Mears
Minnesota
278 East Seventh Street
St. Paul, MN 55101

Ecolab
St. Paul, MN
* Mary Wiley

Entegris, Inc.
3500 Lyman Boulevard
Chaska, MN 55318 USA
* Tim Stepp


General Mills
One General Mills Boulevard 
Minneapolis, MN  55246
* Cindy Burlet, Kurt Grotenhuis, Jennifer Rathje, Ben Swanson

HEI, Inc.
1495 Steiger Lake Lane 
Victoria, MN 55386

IBM iSeries Manufacturing (AS400 Systems)
Rochester, MN

Innovex Inc.
5540 Pioneer Creek Dr
Maple Plain MN 55359-9003

Metris Companies
10900 Wayzata Blvd
Minnetonka MN 55305

Michael Foods
401 Carlson Parkway 
Suite 300 
Minnetonka, MN 55305
* Karen Dudgeon, Lauri Spidahl

MTS Automation Division
2101 North Broadway
New Ulm, MN 56073
* Kathy Dupre, Doug Mielke, Jackie Roufs, Clyde Stephens

Osmonics
Minnetonka, MN 55343
* Mary Burdorf, Amy Powell

Parametric Technology Corp.
St. Paul, MN

Tennant Company
Minneapolis, MN 55440-1452
* Brian Bakken, Diana Meyer, Karen Sembauer

Toro Company
Bloomington, MN
* M.J. Smith, Diane Stamos

Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.
14905 23rd Avenue N.
Plymouth, MN 55447

West Group (Thomson Corp.)
Eagan, MN 55123
* Lisa Barker, Ron Boller, Valerie Howard, Karin Tillotson

Xcel Energy (AEP, Northern States Power)
414 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55401


Google search strategy:
SAP + "user groups"

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Great work - the names were a fantastic addition. More companies would
have been appreciated.