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HI5019 - Community Chef, Strategic Information System

   

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Literature Review: COMMUNITY CHEF, STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM Literature Review: Strategic Information System Student’s nameName of the Institute

COMMUNITY CHEF, STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMContents1Introduction.........................................................................................................................................32Part 1 – Analysis..................................................................................................................................32.1Current organizational structure of Community Chef.................................................................32.2Operational problems that can exist because of this structure....................................................42.3Most likely system acquisition method?.....................................................................................52.4System flowchart of the sales procedures...................................................................................52.5Control problems in the system and possibility of frauds...........................................................63Part 2 - Analysis..................................................................................................................................83.1Development and adoption of the accounting software packages...............................................83.2Current market size in Australia.................................................................................................83.3Leaders in the market and the reasons for their competitive edge..............................................93.4Current gaps encountered by users/ customers of accounting packages.....................................94Conclusion.........................................................................................................................................105References.........................................................................................................................................112

COMMUNITY CHEF, STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM1IntroductionThe objective of this paper is to conduct a literature review on the usage of accounting software package for an organization in Australia. This literature review is done for ‘Community Chef’. The organization, ‘Community Chef’ is a small business player in Australia. The organization has created a niche in itself as it provides packed meals to people for healthy living. The organization has a motto to provide healthy meal to people to match their active lifestyle. It is a social enterprise and result of vision of 20 Victorian councils who wanted to provide food security to older and people with disability. In termsof product, the USP (Unique Selling Proposition) of Community Chef is its healthy meals. The one thing that the organization lags is the very limited use of Information Technology and it has been a limitation point for Community Chef to scale its business. This paper would discuss the way accounting packages can be used by Community Chef to bring efficiency and effectiveness in its business. 2Part 1 – Analysis2.1Current organizational structure of Community Chef The organization is a small business organization in the country with close to 100 employees. Joe Ciccaraone is the CEO of the company and the company has very flexible organizational structure. Joe Ciccaraone is the head of three key departments of the company. These are operations, maintenance, and human resources. In addition to above three functions, Community Chef also has a finance function. The current organizational structure of Community Chef ca be demonstrated as:3

COMMUNITY CHEF, STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMFigure 1: Organization Structure (Source: http://www.communitychef.com.au/who-we-are/community-chef-organisation-chart/ )2.2Operational problems that can exist because of this structure The organization has a very flexible organizational structure. However, there are departments or functions that work in silos. The lack of real time synchronization among these departments could result in wastage of raw materials and the issues of mismatch between the demand and supply. The good thing for Community Chef is the predictability in demand as it caters to five hospitals and three old age care facilities. The organization deliver close to 2000 means per day. The challenge with current organizational structure is to manage the type of meals in an effective manner. For example, the company has mora than 50 type of soups and close to 250 main course dishes. It can be said that the problem is to manage the highly customizable menu with this organization structure. Some of the other operational problems or issues that could occur due to the current organizational structure can be discussed as:Issue of double entry data: It is possible that Operations & Finance team are putting the same data and this can be an issue while doing data reconciliation (Dumas, ROsa, Mendling, & Reijers,2013). 4

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