Strategic Information System in Woolworths Supermarket
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Running head: STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMStrategic Information System[Name of the Student][Name of the University][Author note]
Table of ContentsIntroduction:........................................................................................................................3Discussion:...........................................................................................................................4Part A...................................................................................................................................4Organizational Background: Woolworths Supermarket..................................................4Organizational Structure of Woolworths Supermarket...................................................5Operational Problems in Woolworths Supermarket........................................................7A.Issues regarding the employees:.........................................................................7B.Problems in the team:.........................................................................................7C.The technologies used are old:...........................................................................8D.Strategies adopted is wrong:...............................................................................8E.Insufficient amount of communication:.............................................................8F.Lack of the Resources:.......................................................................................9System Acquisition Method in Woolworths Supermarket..............................................9Sales Flowchart of Woolworths Supermarket...............................................................10Control Problems in the System of Woolworths Supermarket......................................12Part B.................................................................................................................................13Accounting Software Packages in Woolworths Supermarket.......................................13Market Leaders or Competitors of Woolworths Supermarket......................................14Relevant Recommendations for Woolworths Supermarket..........................................15
Introduction:IS or the Information System can be defined as the organized system which isused for proper collection, organizing and storing of the any kind of information or data. Besidesthis the IS is also used for communicating the various type of data or information. The operationsrelated to the data is very simple as well as easy by making use of the IS as this produced therequired the data whenever needed (Galliers and Leidner 2014). Strategic information systemcan be considered as one of the most important type of information system which is associatedwith dealing with different strategies adopted by various organizations. Strategic informationsystem is an information system which is associated with the helping the organizations inachieving the various goals and objectives. By adaptation of proper information system anorganization can easily gain a competitive advantage (Arvidsson, Holmström and Lyytinen2014). It has been seen that most of the organizations has acquired the strategic informationsystem for the purpose of running their business. Besides this the services and the goods that areprovided by the organizations are having low price along with a better efficiency. Strategicinformation system can be considered as one of the salient feature of the information technologyor the information system. The literature review conducted below is associated with reviewing the strategicinformation system and the accounting information system which is used by one of the mostpopular supermarket known as the Woolworths Supermarket. This is Australian basedsupermarket which is very famous amongst all the citizens of Australia. This report mainlydiscusses about the structure of this organization and also provides a wide overview about theoperational problems faced by this organization. The review also provides a relevant andappropriate system acquisition method along with a flowchart of the whole system. In
Woolworths there exists several problems related to the control process. Additionally there alsoexists issues like the fraud and many more. All this issues has been discussed in this review. Thisliterature review also consists of a second part which mainly focuses upon the accountingsoftware package used by Woolworth by making use or relevant and proper information. Besidesthis in the second part a discussion has been made regarding the leaders of the market along withthe major competitors of this organizations. Discussion:Part AOrganizational Background: Woolworths SupermarketWoolworth is considered as one of the important and most popular grocery storesituated in Australia. This grocery store is associated with various type of goods and services forthe customers and for this reason this is highly accepted in different of Australia and suburbs.Woolworth started its business operations in the year of 1924 and along with the othersupermarkets this is responsible for forming a near duopoly of all the accountings in thesupermarkets of Australia. About 80% of the grocery market of Australia is occupied by thisorganization. The organization is associated with delivering and selling of all the groceryproducts which can be considered as one of the specialty of this organization. Their main itemincludes the fruits, vegetables and packaged foods along with baby foods, pet foods and othertype of stationary items. Their branches almost exists around all around Australia and NewZealand. Amongst the branches nine hundred and sixty eight branches are supermarkets whereassixteen of them are convenience stores (Cassidy 2016). The shares which this organization is
always on the higher side but in recent days there has occurred a sharp downfall in the shares.This downfall has occurred due to various reasons and this reasons has been discussed below.Organizational Structure of Woolworths SupermarketThe structure of an organization can be defined as the different procedure in whichdifferent activities of the organizations which are responsible for achievement of certainobjectives of the organization. This activities might include the allocation of the tasks,supervision and coordination and many more. The structure of the organization can be helping inthe achievement of the competitive advantage and besides this the organization would be verymuch effective, flexible and efficient (Willcocks 2013). Along with this the structure of anorganization is also considered as a perspective by which all the individuals in an organizationhave an overview about the environment of the organization (Woolworthsgroup.com.au. 2018).The structure of the organization can be created in various ways and besides this the structurealso helps in the determination of various modes. And from this modes the operations and all theperformances of the organization are done. The structure also helps in the enabling of the variousresponsibility allocation of the employees of the organization. The two structures of theorganization has been provided below:
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