INFORMATION SYSTEM PLAN

Information system plan

Information system plan

Introduction

            In this report you will find an in deepness investigation of the difficulties that the business Healthlite is experiencing at the moment. After the investigation has been enclosed there will be an introduction to the steps that the business has to take to explain the difficulties, after that you will read the influence of the alterations on the business and its enterprise process.

 

Background on the company

            Healthlite Yogurt Company is an U.S. market foremost in the yogurt and other associated wellbeing goods in that industry. Healthlite has business head agency in Danbury, Connecticut and has some output plants in distinct states in the U.S.A.

Healthlite sales have tripled throughout the past five years, although new localized competitors are demanding the business to take farthest assesses to stay in the market, therefore altering its functioning activities.

 

Overview of the business and its enterprise operations.

Organizational Structure.

            Healthlite has business head agency in Danbury, Connecticut. All output takes location in processing plants that are established in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Illinois, Colorado, Washington, and California.

            At the business head agency, Healthlite has a centered mainframe computer scheme that sustains most of the foremost enterprise databases. Each output vegetation has a minicomputer scheme, which is attached to the mainframe, from which it obtains clientele instructions and any other applicable information. Once processed centrally, alignment facts and numbers are then fed to the befitting localized processing vegetation minicomputer.

            Healthlite has 20 sales districts, each with 30 sales representatives and a local sales manager. Healthlite has a 12-person trading assembly at business headquarters. Each salesperson is adept to shop and get facts and numbers for allotted clientele anecdotes utilising a fatal in the local agency connected to the business mainframe. Reports for one-by-one salespeople (printouts of instructions, rejection notices, clientele account inquiries, etc.) and for sales agencies are published in the local agencies and mailed to them.

            However some times the only way to get up-to-date sales facts and numbers is for managers to make phone calls to subordinates and then part the data together. The centered computer comprises only consolidated, company-wide documents for clientele account facts and numbers and alignment and billing data.

 

Company's products.

            The centre goods of Healthlite are yogurt and health-related products. Yogurt has a very short ledge life, and it should be shifted very quickly.

Because Healthlite has a sequence of yogurt-based goods, for example iced desserts and low-fat salad getting dressed, it desires to adapt its share of ledge space in the food shop shop to have more ledge space to brandish its new products.

 

Business operations.

Ordering

            The present scheme needs sales agent to develop clientele instructions and compose hard-copy permits to location instructions manually through the posted letters or by fax to headquarters. Each permit registers the allowance and kind of merchandise organised by the clientele account. Often, instructions are delayed when the fax appliances shatter down.

            Approximately 20 employees at business head agency obtain the alignment data and then open, sort, and go in ...