Future Post's management has repeatedly emphasized that they are worried about the risks in implementing an ERP system in their fastpaced business. To respond to their concerns:

a. Identify 10 key risks for Future Post's implementation project. For each risk, describe how it applies to the project, and discuss the likelihood of the risk.

b. Propose measures Future Post could adopt to mitigate the potential impact of the five most critical risks.

Note: Apply Scott & Vessey (2002) and use the concepts, tools, and technologies.

Your bid should focus on the two High Value Business Processes Future Post has identified namely: 'Lead to Cash' and 'Domestic Outbound Transportation'. Given that Future Post has experienced significant growth over a short period of time and looking to expand overseas, the company is particularly interested in the following issues: Follow up of potential buyers of product Efficient preparation of accurate quotations Streamlining the freight tendering process Managing inward and outbound freight

NZmade plastic fence posts reshape environmental landscape

28 Feb, 2023 12:00 AM

This is a plastic fence post. It contains about 250 recycled milk bottles and 1100 bread bags in each one produced by impressive new company, Future Post, which aims to be recycling the equivalent of a billion plastic bags per year by 2025. That's a more than respectable dent in the estimated 380,000 tonnes of plastic waste dumped in New Zealand every year. It also provides a more than acceptable alternative to tanalised fence posts - the choice of New Zealand farmers for decades but which are treated with chemicals like arsenic. Future Post is expanding to meet burgeoning demand - building a second factory in Blenheim to partner their Waiuku premises - and looking ambitiously at the world markets. The story of how Jarome Wenzlick came to merge plastic and posts was, as many good business ideas are, a bit of an accident. He was fencing out the back of Auckland when his wooden posts kept snapping. Under the surface he found a buried garbage dump. The posts were breaking on compacted plastic rubbish. "I just thought, wouldn't it be wonderful to turn all of this plastic into a post that's a bit stronger than a wooden one, so it won't break." Wenzlick was in a unique position - a stint as a diesel mechanic meant he knew how to commission the machinery he would need: "We designed something on paper and then built it. We eventually got something that works. It has been a heck of a process. It's not just the idea. It's actually building the machinery and then there's the chemical side of things, and where you get the supply of plastics and the marketing and distribution. All of which have ramped up significantly as the company has grown beyond all expectations. At the Waiuku factory about 2000 pieces of diaphanous soft plastic wrapping and bags, harder plastic bottles, ice cream containers and plastic drums go in at one end, and a tough, 1.8m pointed plastic post comes out the other end. Wenzlick knew farmers and people undertaking home improvements would use the new posts - but vineyards are also big customers and will take all the production from the Blenheim factory. Future Post general manager Hassan Wong says wineries in the South Island will be able to solve a major problem about 10 per cent of vineyard posts break each year in the mechanised harvesting process. Future Post CEO and founder, Jarome Wenzlick says "We are looking to significantly increase our production because there is a lot of pentup demand. But a significant increase in production brings with it significant challenges in not only effectively managing the production side but also all aspects of a rapidly growing business". While Future Post currently exports to smaller countries where plastic supply and demand are not great enough to justify a factory, companies in larger countries are looking at the opportunity to replicating Future Post's technology if the company cannot satisfy global demand. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sponsoredstories/whyblackfencepostsmakeadifference/ WNUBWKXZ4BGP7B2E2RS7K2K4HM/