Strategic Information System for Gracious Industries

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Business requirements:...............................................................................................................3
Planning and scheduling:.......................................................................................................3
Managing Inventory:..............................................................................................................4
Integrated consumer relationship management:.....................................................................4
Simplifying reporting:............................................................................................................4
System requirements:.................................................................................................................5
Accounting:............................................................................................................................5
Data analysis:.........................................................................................................................5
Automation:............................................................................................................................6
Integration:.............................................................................................................................6
Software Selection:....................................................................................................................7
Microsoft Dynamics ERP:.....................................................................................................7
SYSPRO:................................................................................................................................8
IQMS:.....................................................................................................................................9
Vendor selection:.......................................................................................................................9
Compare and contrast:............................................................................................................9
Suitable vendor and ERP software package:.........................................................................9
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................9
References:...............................................................................................................................10

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Introduction:
The gracious industries are one of the private limited company that is having thirty
five employees as well as the sales revenue of the company is more than 10.5 million dollars
from the last year. The company is doing the business from the last forty years as well as they
are supplying the electronic parts including super market and hardware stores but the problem
that is being faced by the company is they have lost some of the major accounts for the
unproductivity of some of the major products at a price that is competitive. For the issue the
company has hired an accountant who was keeping records for them as well as producing
statements that are related to finance in every year. The organisation thought that more
information is being required for running the business efficiently. The purpose of this paper is
to discuss the business requirements, software requirements, selection of the software and
vendor selection of the company Gracious Industries and at the end the paper will provide a
brief conclusion based on the entire report.
Business requirements:
The mission of Gracious Industries is to provide quality products to the vendors in a
competitive shopping environment (Abdinnour and Saeed, 2015). The vendors will get quick
assistance and they will get the seasonal needs and will get the better product than ever. The
key business processes for the Gracious Industries are as follows:
Planning and scheduling:
As the ERP systems have been designed for helping of managing and analysing data,
the business processes are for the excellent for the improvement of the scheduling
procedures. The reports of enterprise resource planning will give the allowance to the
managers for looking at the breakdown of the data of previous section. The functionality will

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give an ability to the head of the departments or project heads for allocating streamline for the
future and appropriate man power.
Managing Inventory:
Most of the organisations are having a process that is already existed for the
management of inventory, switching over the ERP based system, will allow the gracious
industries for an enhanced management of inventory as well as a greater flexibility for the
improvements (Abu-Shanab, Abu-Shehab and Khairallah, 2015). The distribution software of
the ERP system will allow the users to set up the notification as well as the flags that are
customize for the management of some of the specific adjust levels and stock levels
accordingly. Each of the seasons is having their unique and own demand on the demand of
the consumers. The gracious Industries is needed to focus on the pattern as well as need to
attract the local vendors by marketing their products in such price that is competitive.
Integrated consumer relationship management:
The management of customer relationship is one of the most separated suites that is for the
applications. The integrated customer relationship management is the most needed business
process for the company Gracious Industry (Arvidsson, Holmström and Lyytinen, 2014). The
first selection of the consumers will find at the time they will enter is the resource area of the
project or repairing that the consumers can use for planning of the projects for repairing the
products. Some of the functions of the CRM are having the ability to overlap the ERP system
(Sun and Lam, 2015). Both of these are necessary for the gracious industries. The focus of
CRM is to improve the relation of the company with the consumers.
Simplifying reporting:
The reporting is one of the most important part for each of the organisations, such that
the report process is also required for the company gracious industries. Most of the