Business System Planning For Indian Railways For The Economic Health Of The Country

This process reduced not just customer’s satisfaction but also profit; there is a need for a financial information management to integrate all their business processes. SAP (System Applications Program) was introduced to the company to ensure efficient communication among the different modules of the business process.

Information system is a combination of hardware, software, infrastructure as well trained personnel who organized and facilitate planning, control, coordination and decision making within an organization. Information systems are also able to implement a vital integrated set of components for collecting, storing, and processing data. With this, it provided organizations with the necessary information, knowledge, and digital products needed. Information system bring the meaning of business applications that manage their operations, compete in the market place, manage accounts and human resources. This system have a vast variety of components that are crucial for a enterprise, business to function at his highest level, IT software is responsible that all system are reliable and up to date.

A business process combines manual and automated tasks that ultimately add measurable value to a product or service. A model for business model diagram of these manual and automated processes is a picture of the business process works as is or should work in the future to be. To develop an effective application that optimally supports the business process. Business process analysis identifies bottlenecks in efficiencies disconnects and other problem areas. Developers need solution functional and non-functional requirements to develop or modifying application. A good business process implementation will increase the visibility of the company’s activities making it easy to monitor and control the critical business processes of the company. It provides management with an increased ability to identify bottlenecks, make improvements that needed and reassigned resources to meet customer demand. It also provides an increased to identify further areas of optimization that will provide customer satisfaction or lower transaction

What caused Ranbir concern was the lack of consensus among the various stakeholder groups in the Indian Railways about the idea of ‘tracking’ the rolling stock (freight railcars, passenger coaches, locomotives). The need to automate such tracking – especially for freight railcars6 – had been felt for almost two decades. Initially, the available technology was too expensive, and experimental in nature; however, lately, technologies had stabilized, and costs had come down. Various options had become available to automate the tracking, ranging from the use of RFID tags to the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS)-based technology. Other available alternatives were the use of optical tracking systems using OCR, or the use of hand-held devices to manually record wagon identification data.

Business processes comprise a set of sequential sub-processes or tasks, with alternative paths depending on certain conditions as applicable, performed to achieve a given objective or produce given outputs. Each process has one or more needed inputs. The inputs and outputs may be received from, or sent to other business processes, other organizational units, or internal or external stakeholders. Business processes are designed to be operated by one or more business functional units, and emphasize

BNSF Railroads provides services to the vast majority of the United States of America; stretching from Atlanta, Georgia to Oakland, California, up to Vancouver, Canada, down to parts of Mexico through El Paso, Texas. In all BNSF covers 28 states, covering 32,500 route miles. BNSF is able to cover this immense territory by having 48,000 employees, 138 new or expanded rail-served facilities, nearly 8,000 locomotives and over 40 ports. In order for BNSF to achieve such a feat they have haulage agreements with other railways and use parts of the UP/SP trackage rights. In 2014, BNSF invested in nearly $1 billion to expand their facilities and to increase efficiency, they also invested $1.7 billion into locomotive, freight cars and other equipment (acquired, renewed, or replaced). BNSF plans to invest a record $6 billion in 2015, with 25% going towards expansion and efficiency and 23% towards locomotives, freight cars and other equipment.

In the case of “Creating a vision” , Vice President of the company created a vision ‘One Company’ where he meant to integrate organization where the employees would share common data using single set of combined systems and processes. In terms of successfully implementing an ERP system, all the functions i.e. Methods, Quality, Production, Work and Material Planning and Procurement needed to identify their key performance indicators required to run the business and the skills required for the function to realize their proposed vision. A need to reduce the clerical task and paperwork and increase analytical focus was emerged and also to align the outputs of the visioning process with the overall project vision to address this issue the Bombardier Aerospace, vice president of the operations and the Project Sponsor participated in the road shows and the presentation where the employees were explained the implementation of the BMIS and their effects in their everyday working lives. Everyone was included i.e. all levels of the management were included while passing

Baria Planning Solutions (BPS) was a publicly traded firm with $95 million annual sales. As a consulting firm, BPS provided advices of spend analysis and spend management, which helped its clients decrease cost of procurement and enhance the overall performance at every stage. Because of its first mover advantages, BPS had gained rapid growth in years before 2008. In 2007 and 2008, BPS acquired 3 firms, which served government sector, manufacturing companies and retail sector respectively. However, BPS allowed the acquired firms to operate semi-autonomously, which resulted in incompatibility among different departments, along with seasonal workload issue, both factors contributed to the decreased efficiencies, thus lowered the of overall

An information system is a base in today’s business world. Everything is electronic. In various businesses, the survival and ability to succeed strategic business goals is challenging without extensive use of information system. Businesses improve the efficiency of their operations in order to accomplish higher profitablity. Besides that, information systems are important tools available to managers for achieving higher levels of efficiency and productiviy in business operations. For an example, Zara uses the PDA technology to gather customer feedback and input.

Over the past years, customers have been heavily relying on airline reservation systems to book their tickets, reserve seats, pay for the tickets and also check-in online. For customers, this has been a very convenient method and they are able to easily plan their trips. For the Airline companies, these systems have the whole flight inventory managed. They have all the flight information stored and records are maintained. It also provides a platform for communication between other airline companies for their “code-sharing plans” and

Business must endlessly update their systems to keep up with the changes that occurs with their business process. Business processes are continually trying to find many ways to accomplish new and shifting goals for the business. New or shifting goals, such as changing the responsible for a current business process, or combining more than one responsible into one can be difficult and needs a clear understanding of multi-tiered systems and the business processes itself. The absence of connection among requirement and employment can lead to problems in recognizing the suitable program which must be changed to further increase the worthiness of a system in response to the new goals. Unfortunately, these changes can lead to errors and can make take longer than expected.

This is in reference to the previous business plan proposing a new mobile app for IRTC reservation systems. The report will address the ICT architecture for the proposed mobile app, the security features and the costing schedule for the project.

The planning involved in the deployment and implementation of information system are highlighted in the following points:

The Author has analysed the company based on the information that has been gathered and aims to make an IT plan. This IT plan would include current and proposed IT systems and its processes. The new IT systems may include CRM, CPFR and web based approach for payroll management.

Companies over the last decade, has recognized that their survival to a lesser or greater extent, depends either entirely or partially to appropriate information system. It is established, based on lesson learned from both failed and successful organizations, that an information system strategy are to support or aligned with, business strategy. Similarly the business strategy can influences the choice of Information System used in the organization. A business strategy entails futuristic organizational planning that result in companies gaining competitive advantage. It is direct linked to supporting area such as marketing, procurement, and information system. The case of Comair airline, even after acquisition by Delta