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Strategic Information System Name of the University Author's Note Part 1 2 1.1 Current structure of the organization

   

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Running head: STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMStrategic Information SystemName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note

STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM1Table of ContentsPart 1..........................................................................................................................................21.1 Current structure of the organization...............................................................................21.2 Operational issues experienced by Woolworths..............................................................31.3 Most likely method of acquisition....................................................................................41.4 Description of sales flowchart..........................................................................................51.5 Determination of control problems in the system............................................................6Part 2..........................................................................................................................................62.1 Adoption and development of accounting software packages.........................................72.2 Current market size..........................................................................................................82.3 Identification of leaders and factors that helps in providing competitive advantage.......82.4 Identification of current challenges and gaps encountered by customers........................9References................................................................................................................................11

STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM2Part 1The paper mainly focuses on the organization named “Woolworths that is one of theleading supermarket within Australia. The main purpose of the report is to reflect on thestructure of the organization for determining the operational issues that the organization faces(Dos, Svensson and Padin 2013). The paper also assists in identifying that ERP is the mostimportant acquisition method that assists in mitigating challenges that are mainly related withthe organizational operation. A proper flowchart is mainly provided for illustrating the entiresales procedures of the organization effectively. It is identified that there are numerouscontrol issues that are related with the entire sales company of the system. 1.1 Current structure of the organization Organization structure is one of the system that is utilized for defining properhierarchy within the organization. It generally helps in identifying job and responsibilities ofeach of the stakeholders. It is identified that organizational structure is mainly developedwithin an organization for establishing how the organization operates and helps anorganization for achieving the goals for allowing proper future growth. The organizationstructure for the company “Woolworths” are provided below:Figure 1: Organizational Structure(Source: Dos, Svensson and Padin 2013, pp.107).

STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM31.2 Operational issues experienced by Woolworths It is stated by Arli et al. (2013) that, Woolworths set number of specific standards ofoperation in the present era which generally helps in affecting the shareholders as well ascustomers. It is identified that Woolworths faces lot of operational issues due to its presentorganizational structure. It is argued by Kumar and O'Reilly (2013) that under the variousperspectives that are associated with the operational management, number of issues aregenerally determined that further declines the performance of the stakeholders of theorganization. It is found that declining personal performance generally assists in declining thequality of service, design procedure, demand forecasting, human resources as well as supplychain management of Woolworths. The other operational issues that are faced by theorganization “Woolworths” are as follows:Improper design of the service process: It is stated by Bennys et al.(2016) thatservice process design associated with the organization “Woolworths” can be affected as theorganizational structure of the organization is quite poor. It is identified that in the retailoutlet of Woolworths there are improper measuring services as well as proper qualityperformance and therefore number of issues occur including poor quality of customer servicethat further reduces the satisfaction of the organization (Box et al. 2015) The store managersre not capable of handling and supervising the entire operation effectively due tounavailability of proper processes, lack of proper interest as well as issues in forecasting.Inappropriate communication: According to Yen et al. (2015), propercommunication is considered to be quite essential for making the operations of theorganization smooth. It is found that due to lack of proper communication within theorganization, the stakeholders faces lot of challenges and issues in managing the functions ofWoolworths.

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