Foundations Of Information Systems Report 2022

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Background Issues.....................................................................................................................2
Literature Review of the Issues..................................................................................................3
Recommendation to the Company.............................................................................................5
Enterprise Resource Planning................................................................................................5
Netsuite ERP..........................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
Appendices...............................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The information systems are the integration of information technology people and
procedures of business in order to achieve an objective of business. Each information system
has information technology, people and procedures. The five components of information
systems include computer hardware, computer software, telecommunications, databases and
human procedures and resources.
The report discusses about the company of Fibre Fashion and the operations of the
company. The report discusses about the issues those are faced by the company and the
background of the issues of the company. The company provides a literature review of the
issues those are faced by the Fibre Fashion technology. The report provides appropriate
recommendations of the company about the information systems that can be implemented to
the company in order to resolve the issues of the company.
Background Issues
Fibre Fashion has been in the presence in the fashion industry of Melbourne for 200
years. The Company has 110 shops all over the continent of Australia. The primary activities
of the company include operation, inbound logistics, outbound logistics, marketing, sales and
services to the people of Australia. The Company has a website from where the customers of
Fibre Fashion can order clothes (Baumann-Pauly & Jastram, 2018). However, the Fibre
Fashion a lot is problems in its operations due to its lack of good decisions. The result of
these problems is that the sales of the company are decreasing, they are losing their potential
customers and the revenue of the company is reducing day by day. The main issue of the
company is that they utilise spreadsheets for their operations. The spreadsheets are used for
keep note of the new customers, sales of the company, number of orders, inventory, profits
and many more. There are lot of issues of spreadsheets (Štefko & Steffek, 2018). The

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spreadsheets had to filled up manually by the employees of the company and during the hours
of rush, there can be errors filling the spreadsheets. The company have to take the
spreadsheets of all the stores and have to compile them in order to calculate the number of
potential customers, number of new customers, revenue, number of orders and many more.
Therefore, it is a very tedious job to compile the spreadsheets of 110 stores and errors are
inevitable (Świeboda, 2016). It is very complex to generate reports from the spreadsheets.
Therefore, the managers cannot produce reports from the spreadsheets. Due to this, the
managers cannot take efficient decisions regarding the marketing of the company, products
and services of the company. The result of this is that the company has very low new
customers, they are losing their potential new customers due to effective marketing strategies,
and revenues of the companies are reducing. The company cannot provide excellent services
to the customers and the sales of the company are decreasing (Balakrishnan et al.,2017). The
company have to solve the issue of spreadsheets in order to solve the issues of marketing and
sales. The research question recognised is “How can the issue of spreadsheet solve”?
Literature Review of the Issues
Various companies utilise spreadsheets in order to carry out its operations such as
inventory, new customers, sales count of the company, revenue of the company and other
operations of the company. The Fibre Fashion Company also utilises spreadsheets in order to
carry out its operations (van der Aalst, 2018). However, issues have occurred in the company
due to the use of spreadsheets such as lowering of sales, effective marketing strategies, lower
profits and many more. Therefore, the spreadsheets are ineffective for the company. The bad
aspects of the spreadsheets that can affect include the following:
Vulnerable to fraud: Of all the disadvantages of spreadsheets, this disadvantage is most
dangerous and damaging. The major reason behind the vulnerability of spreadsheets is the