Development of Information System for Small Scale Supermarket Assignment 2022

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Development of information system for small scale supermarket
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
1. Identification of the problem.......................................................................................................3
1.1 Problem description...............................................................................................................3
1.2 System capabilities................................................................................................................3
1.3 Expected business benefits....................................................................................................3
2. Quantifying project approval factors...........................................................................................4
2.a Estimation of project time......................................................................................................4
2.b Development cost for the project...........................................................................................7
2.c Summary of the estimated operating costs............................................................................8
2.d Cost benefit analysis..............................................................................................................8
3. Performing feasibility as well as risk analysis.............................................................................9
3a. Determination of organizational risks and feasibility............................................................9
3b. Elaborating technical feasibility and risks...........................................................................10
3c. Assessing resource risks and feasibility...............................................................................10
3d. Determining schedule-based risks and feasibility...............................................................10
4. Establishment of project environment.......................................................................................11
4a. Table that outlines information which will be captured......................................................11
4b. Description of the work environment..................................................................................11
4c. Description of the procedures that will be used...................................................................12
5. Schedule the work......................................................................................................................13
5a. Work breakdown structure for one of the subsystems.........................................................13
5b. Providing Gantt chart showing WBS of the project activities.............................................15
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................16

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1. Identification of the problem
1.1 Problem description
The paper focuses on Human resource information system (HRIS) development for
“Friendly Grocer” which is a small supermarket chains in Australia. Presently, the supermarket
manages the operations of HR department with the help of manual system. The use of the
manual system puts pressure on the workers of the organization and additionally creates other
types of issues including inconsistency in entering data, miskeying information and details, huge
expenditure on staff’s training, lack of proper security as well as the occurrence of issues that are
associated with data duplication. In addition to this, it is found that when data are entered
manually, it takes up a lot of time no matter how fast one can be able to process the entire
information as it will never be as fast as it is required. Moreover, misinterpretation can also be
one of the major issues because the entries are generally conducted by the humans and there is
always room for misunderstanding. Furthermore, manual data entry requires a lot of money for
conducting the manual data entry as the employees who work needs to be trained and for which
huge amount of money as well as time is needed. All these issues that occurs due to manual
system needs to be mitigated due to the development of an HRIS (Human resource information
system).
1.2 System capabilities
The HRIS for the small-scale supermarket have the following system capabilities which
are listed below:

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 Centralized data: With the help of the centralized database, the data of the staffs is
stored at a single location for maximizing data integrity and for avoiding the problem of
data redundancy.
 Automation: The department of human resource will get managed in a very much
automated way and all the work related with payroll, weekly roaster can be generated and
shared online.
 Report generation: With the help of the HRIS system, the report for managing the HR
department can be generated automatically and thus the organization does need to hire
staffs for preparing the report.
1.3 Expected business benefits
The development of HRIS system for managing the operations of “Friendly Grocer”
supermarket will bring much more profit which are illustrated below:
Reducing errors and maintain compliance: While considering the HRIS benefits, the
main ability is to properly reduce the issues as well as errors which are mainly related with
human oversight or other factors. In addition to this, it is quite important for the HR department
to minimize the error as a part of the human resources that further can create a number of legal
issues as well as financial challenges.
Automated procedure: The automated HRIS system will be helpful for the management
of the HR department and additionally assists in smoothing the entire work.
HR and payroll factors: When the company invests within an affordable HRIS, it
suddenly becomes very much capable of handling the entire workforce by looking into different
primary components including HR and payroll.