Advantages And Disadvantages Of Internally Focused Process Integration And Management

Having the decision-making authority resting with the managers was feasible while the number of subordinates was small. As the company started to expand though the higher placed personnel did not have the time to devote to deck plate level decisions. By examining the technology that was employed by Idlenot, the Functional Structure is again a logical choice. With a low variety of tasks and the procedures to handle any exceptions in place the employees were armed with the requisite tools to accomplish the jobs at hand. The environment of the organization will also lead the organization toward a specific structure. In this case the company 's environment would be describes as stable, simple and integrated. The stability came from the company 's suppliers. The same farmers had been delivering milk to the dairy since its opening. There was no likelihood of change in the immediate future. The number of inputs to the diary was small and far from complex. As far as being integrated with the environment, the dairy had a limited number of customers in the local area and a short list of products.

with Director of IT, Director of Quality, Director HIM and two of the associates within the HIM

In recent years, the requirements of commercial and industrial operations in the production of services and goods have been subject to vast changes. In the present era of globalization and increasing international competition, a trend away from vertically integrated organizations has become more and more evident. In fact, most companies nowadays tend to solely concentrate on their own core competencies, outsourcing different steps of the production. However, including a great many of other organizational units to the production systems, has lead to rising complexity in terms of the operations management (Plenert, 2012).

The increased number of IT investment is applied in organization. It is clear that information technology has become the competitive fact in world business. Collaboration is the new trend in business world. No one can deny the importance of information technology application. Besides the profits outcome, the impacts of information technology deployment also create commitment, trust and value. Advanced information system can improve each steps of business process. It enables people to share information, performance task simultaneously and making decision efficiently. IT companies designed different products to satisfy each step of business operation in terms of manufacturing and human resources. Seminole should apply this new IT infrastructure to business operation. Firstly, company can use the transaction processing systems (IPS) to keep track of all business activities and transaction of the organization such as payroll and employee record keeping. IPS also shows all information from internal and external operation. Secondly, Business intelligence systems are designed for decision-making support. Management information system (MIS) is a system that helps managers to keep track of company performance status, which purposed for decision-making and evaluation. Decision-support system (DSS) is purposed for future business decision-making. Thirdly, Enterprise application systems are designed for integrating business process from different functions, such as supply chain

This implementation will also enable you to uses your full suite of communication tools in all lines of business. EDI transactions, Bar Code reading, and decision software, such as EDSS, will enhance your senior leaders ability to make sound judgments on a stable base of information at any site. This, of course, becomes a tremendous help in streamlining inventory stock levels, purchase order generation, and vendor delivery predictability. Forecasting raw material needs will no longer be a guessing game. Financial data from each plant will be available from all sites without manual processes.

The goals of this organization are to be more effective with this implementation of new system. The main goal of them was to integrate the job requirements in to one program by eliminating the existing program. Initially they have said that there will be a new program coming in to the picture in a short while. Then we was given a date of installation then realized that the day of installation would be the change of the organization. On that day every one was asked to sign off and the program was upgraded by IT team. The ETA for this upgrade was given as 10 hours but in few locations it took weeks to complete the installation. This affected all the employees in the organization, every one has a load of work to complete after this installation and also there was no one who knows how to use it, they had training sessions and it had a huge work on the employees by learning the work and on top of it doing the overload work at a time. The main challenge over here was that the training did not went well as there were many questions unanswered. For this solution

The main stakeholders involved with this project will include the following departments and personnel. The Finance and Accounting division will participate in the organizing the General Ledgers and monthly income statements. The Sales, Marketing and Inventory divisions will participate in communicating the needs and processes of ordering, material supply, and product delivery. The IT department will make recommendations based on department needs and corporate demands to improve eficientcy and advance the current computing

The ability of the systems to communicate between departments and support the manufacturing demands of the company is a huge advantage for the entire company. The new system would increase strategic processes for the different departments from planning to manufacturing to distribution to accounting by using the resources more efficiently. NIBCO would be able to identify discrepancies within their planning, purchasing, or manufacturing stages immediately. By decreasing redundant processes the firm is able eliminate waste in order to increase their profit. Another advantage for NIBCO was in establishing a timeframe in their strategic plan with a ‘go live’ date for the implementation of the IS system which meant that the company would be able to resume normal operations. A typical timeframe of installing a new IS system in a company typically occurs within a three to five year plan and NIBCO planned on having the software installed and operating within twenty-four months to limit the interruption for the

In order to alleviate its server capacity constraints, speed its data retrieval process and reduce the number business systems used, Williams-Sonoma should upgrade to Windows 2000, purchase new servers and implement the SAP program. SAP is a customized program package that integrates a company 's supply chain. It 's primary function is the ability for order management, sales and distribution to communicate electronically with the financial systems and controls by providing real-time information for decision making. The system is fast, user friendly and most importantly real-time. It is beneficial because it reduces human error, improves productivity, improves data

The solution to be implemented should felicitate higher coordination among the business partners leading to better information circulation and targeted customer approach, i.e. to make efforts that the same technician handles the same customer.

Labor-intensive purchasing process is an expensive and low value-added work. Currently, the company has no centralized management to perform strategic purchasing. It was a concern that whether employees would come up with speed to the dramatic changes coming from re-engineering. Some of multiple hand-offs between department look complicated and redundant. An example of solution would simplify the process from demand planning to raw material planning to be implemented by less employees within a close group. In addition, the organization should be re-designed to a more “customer oriented” to align with the turnkey

Currently their information system (IS) is not fully centralized and this is causing a lot of problem in their expansion and cross-company

The system allows to company to modernize its strategies and processing more efficiently than its competitors

Excellent customer service is a way to set the organization apart from its competitors. Differentiation can be achieved through fast and correct execution of product ordering. To improve on the order process it is important to have the correct information provided in a timely fashion to all divisions. For integration to be successful information must be available throughout the entire supply chain.

In an era where companies compete in global context to provide the best solutions, products or services in order to gain loyal customers, every detail in the processes within the organisation contributes massively to its success or failure. Every organisation’s desire is to match supply and demand in a timely manner with the most efficient use of resources. Meanwhile, the key component of success is to understand customer’s needs and to translate them into value, and eventually into products. In order to meet both the above, the organisation desires its internal processes to have a clear and adequate mechanism that will link all departments and ensure high quality and trust.