The first question answered already. Please answer Second based on first. RP Systems Implementation Strategy

Scenario:

You are in a project team newly appointed by the Board of a consulting organisation. Your job is to consider an ERP Information Systems (I.S.) implications of the assignment scenario, and produce the recommended ERP implementation strategy or solution for the Board. The I.S. implementation strategy must be planned carefully in order to launch the project successfully and supported by the Project planning documentation.

You are to select one of the consumer product industries below who is your client and work out the ERP systems strategy. The systems will be installed in the Head Office and connected to other branches' operations in use. Note that Head Office and branch's operation can be different. For example, the Head Office is operating administration (e.g. sales, accounting, etc.) and "branch" is its factory operating production. You are to analyse appropriately the business functions and relevant business processes for the business area you select and to propose your ERP implementation strategy to the client Management.

Choose business area as below.

Furnitures - assorted cheese, butter, milk

Each business area has many major business functions and processes, but your new proposed ERP systems must focus on the mandatory operations such as

Furnitures -manufacturing, production and whole selling

The new proposed ERP systems has many major components. However, you must analyse the requirements to select the sub-applications that are mandatory and relevant to your new systems, i.e. the correct and optimal integration of sub-applications is key success factor to your new ERP systems.

You should need to conduct some research about the industry in which the company operates in business as well as the type of the proposed systems as a Literature Review to support your justification.

Specification:

The followings are only the guidelines for your working, your final proposed ERP system strategy should cover more than the specification given below and as detailed as possible for the business area selected by you.

You should make the appropriate assumptions and or constraints where necessary to support your analysis.

1. Do the Business Process Reengineering to analyse the requirements, i.e. business functions and business processes for your solution. (Clean slate BPR approach.)

You should enhance your solution with other additional component e.g. e-commerce application, CRM or SCM which can be either embedded in the ERP system or integrated as isolated enterprise systems.

You should also must consider the Access and Workflow in different geographic location of the sites and the number of users. Answer:

The below is the answer for 1

Furnitures -manufacturing, production and whole selling

Business Process Reengineering to analyse the requirements

Furniture ERP Software,

let's first see the need of resource planning system in the furniture industries. This industry is worldwide and has unique requirements of resource planning in inventory, production and supply. Furniture has a wide variety of dimensions, colors, finishes, fabrics and product options. These are placing increased demands on the information systems to provide the functionality and flexibility required in the furniture business. For managing resources successfully it is important to maintain the list of all used and unused raw materials, how many products are developed and sold, the details of customer and vendors, total amount expended an earned etc. Without solid control over your operational and financial processes, you run the risk of production mistakes, late deliveries and out-of-control costs that hurt your margins. Whether, youre selling high-end custom chairs or cabinet drawer pulls spreadsheets can only take you so far.

Furniture ERP Software streamlines the order fulfillment process associated with complex, customer-specified products and will ensure accurate sales quotes, product pricing, and discounts. Our manufacturing system supports manufacturers in meeting customer delivery dates, bills of materials and routing, inventory visibility, and finished product costs. With proper advanced planning it eliminate production bottlenecks in the organization and streamline production to speed delivery. Full visibility of available material, shipping schedules, product lead times, and manufacturing capacity are considered when determining an accurate promise date.

Requirement Engineering

Functional Requirements

Integrated CRM Software

Comprehensive and Centralized Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is fully-integrated with our solution to connect sales, support, field services and installed base tracking facilities.

Furniture Inventory Software

Manage Inventory in real-time efficiently with unlimited number of products. It offers timely management reports and alerts for low-stock, out of stock and excess stock. Easy search in inventory by different product IDs or descriptions.

Multiple Warehouse Management

Access data for multiple warehouses from a centralized system via system or mobile, gives you a clear picture to management of overall warehouse inventory and operational process. It increases efficiency and accuracy, streamlines inventory and order fulfillment operations.

Purchase Management

Purchase orders can be automated and reduces overall efforts and cost to the operational system. System effectively helps to monitor vendor performance.

Non Functional Requirements

Higher Customer Satisfaction

ERP systems help achieve higher level of customer satisfaction rates by providing a platform for faster processing of data, storing history of every client and addressing all their concerns immediately.

Reduces Production Costs

With Rexo ERP Implementation, the business processes are automated, which leads to increased accuracy and decreased waste, and money flows are then naturally optimized. Users can constantly watch out for product quality and quickly react when problems are identified. _____________________________________________________________________________________

2. Choose a mandatory business process, e.g. sourcing to sales order process, procurement and supply chain process, manufacturing and production process etc., and use Process Modelling method to justify the alternatives as part of your BPR.

(Refer: Lecture notes for the four basic business components.)

Example of process map

Example of process map Monster Furniture Warehouse Order to Cash Process Salesperson Greet and discuss store layout Show furniture Complete sales order form Yes Yes Want help? Purchase Furniture? Leave Store Receipt Customer -Sales Order Shipping Need credit? Cashier Enter sales order information generate bill Collect payment give receipt Credit Manager 2 Authorize Credit ERP Application Order entry Inventory Module Financial module module