Layered Enterprise Architecture Design (LEAD) for Global Bike Inc. (GBI)

Layered Enterprise Architecture Design (LEAD)
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ABSTRACT
People often adopt in the enterprise system within the organisation to handle the operation
process in a much more feasible. In the case of Global Bike Incorporation or GBI, the
organisation already had ERP system implemented within the organisational operation to handle
the information generated. However, the business industry does not remain the same at any given
point of time and goes for continuous change every other day or as a whole gradually changes to
accustom the growing demands of the customers. Since there is a fear of the entrance of
competition within the market, it is required that the organisation enhances the ERP system and
makes the implementation of SAP ERP S/4 HANA is implemented within the system to handle
the business operations. The upgraded SAP implementation should be utilised through various
analysis of the organisation according to the business operations and the processing framework
of the same. The implementation and analysis process of begin with a brief description of the
ERP system with a semantic relation model developed for GBI. The report below would hold
incorporate all the information regarded henceforth.
Keywords: Global Bike Inc., SAP S/4 HANA, SAP, E+ objects, ERP Systems.
INTRODUCTION
Enterprise Systems are being adopted by people all around the world. Every business in the
industries are focusing on implementing the Enterprise management Systems in the business
organizations to upgrade the business processes and develop a much more process-centric
perspective on the business processes to understand the modern business environment and based
on that, it would be much easier to understand the business perspectives that the company is
running in so far (Schfer & Melich, 2016). Therefore, the organization of Global Bike Inc. or
GBI wanted to implement the Enterprise Systems so that the handling of the operations becomes
much easier for the employees of the organization as well as the synchronization of the system
with the latest market trends. Nonetheless, GBI had implemented the Enterprise System
integrating the systems, applications and products, specifically SAP implementation. However,
given the technological advancements of the latest times in the business organizations, GBI also
wants to make sure that the SAP system that the organization has been particularly using as their
ERP system, is upgraded to the next level. GBI want to implement SAP S/4 HANA within the
system right now to make sure that the Enterprise System is upgraded at the best level possible.
The technology of SAP has been upgraded ever since as well. For this, the brief review of the
enterprise systems would be discussed, GBI would be categorized as E+ objects with a
description of the Two-way semantic relations and models of GBI (Rubart et al., 2017). Next, the
formal concept of the analysis of GBI would be discussed, followed by the concluding portion,
where the enterprise systems and their alternatives in the contemporary setup would be

discussed, a strategy for an enterprise system within a given business would be discussed along
with the approaches towards the IT infrastructures, the organisational approach to developing
effective IT Infrastructure solutions and the development from model to execution for novel
computer-based applications.
BRIEF REVIEW OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
Enterprise Resource Systems are the integrated business process systems that closely bind the
operations within the organizations as well as the enterprise systems. However, most of these
Enterprise Resource Systems have been integrated theoretically and do not support the real world
processes or business problems (Missbach et al., 2016). This is why the entire system has been
developed into an Integrated Business Process along with the ERP systems to make sure that the
entire system works in the process of real world business problems. It has the capability of
performing the theoretical tasks that a standard ERP system performs, and along with it, the
modern structures of the ERP systems are also followed.
The approach for the Integrated Business Processes utilized the integrated performances and
operations of the GBI organization (Jha & Sangle, 2018). All the processes in the business
organization follows the methods by which the functional areas of the company work along. The
special emphasis is lead on the data that the company needs to manage with its coordination
lying between the groups and the activities. The ERP systems are effectively utilized for the
organization to make sure that the entire system performs along with the management of the
processes in an efficient manner from the perspective of multiple functions. The organization of
Global Bikes Inc. is an organization that is virtually accessible from the GBI ERP systems and
the utilized ERP systems has the capability of executing various processes in the SAP ERP.
The theoretical approach of the SAP ERP is based upon the most current version of the
software, which is officially designated or enrolled as the SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4
(Densborn et al., 2017). Since SAP is consistently keen on enhancing the systems in providing
the SAP ERP solutions, the organization needs to adjust its operations and systems in such a
manner that the core competencies of the software is matched along with the version of the
software (Schallmo, Williams & Lohse, 2018). The organization is now focusing on developing
or enhancing the entire system to SAP S/4 HANA to make sure that the ERP System is
conducting in the most feasible way that the technological advancements is happening within the
organization synchronized with the real world.
The ERP platform for SAP HANA was first produced to the market in the year 2010, which
made sure that the SAP Business Suite is feasible to work with the database prepared as per the
specifications of the SAP HANA or any other suitable database. There are various functions of
implementing the SAP HANA within the business systems that makes the business processes
work much more feasibly. The various functions of the SAP ERP systems that benefit the
business processes can be listed as follows:
 The systems help the business processes to run in an organized and optimized manner.
 The SAP HANA software package provides the business to operate the function
smoothly.
 The software system provides the handling of the business process in real time
environment, which is fixable and scalable at the same time.
 The business functions become logically related since the transactions are identifiable.

The organisation has a specific function structure required to follow to help the
implementation process to make sure that several operations of specifically divided into different
functions or department which will be closely related to set up activities responsible for the
development of the functional organisation of the structure (Menon, 2016). This would be
followed through a unit setup that follows the organisational structure in the following way. the
accounting department would send the payments that are received and Therefore the warehouse
would receive the shipped materials. all the typical functions that a warehousing procedure in a
modern organisation follows would be maintained including purchasing, warehousing
corporation sales and marketing, finance and accounting, research and development, human
resources and information systems.
Figure 1: Company Structure
(Source: Li et al., 2018)
Most of the companies have some vertical silos which is functional as well for
compartmentalizing the operational units. in similar way this organisation also utilizes a structure
comprising of the vertical silos and the entire business process including the fulfilment of the
processes and the procurement on the basis of different ways, which are seemingly unrelated
functions or departments (Hilker., Awan & Delvat, 2018). The entire responsibility as shared
between the functional areas and when all the processes are nearing completion, the company
would rely on every functional group defined so that they can execute the individual steps which
works in a coordinated way. The entire business process is not easy to accomplish and this is
why the ERP implementation is required.
CATEGORISING GBI AS E+ OBJECTS
There are various objects within the organisation of GBI, out of which the business objects and
probably the most suitable for the implementation of SAP ERP (Riesner & Sauer, 2017). the
business objects are typically the data generated within the organisation generated from plant of
sales organisation comprising of the master data vendors, materials and customers. the entire