INF10003 Introduction to Business Information Systems

The purpose of this assessment task is for you to demonstrate your understanding of the impact that business processes, competing and/or complementary technologies and information systems have on an organisation. You will create a business report and spreadsheet for a fictitious company Combined Milk Products Pty Ltd. This assessment task will be the first report of two that you will complete throughout this unit. Assessment details The report and spreadsheet will be based on this case study: Business report and structure In order to understand CMP better and to improve processes, Michael has asked you to submit a business report with the following information: ï‚· An executive summary [not included in word count]. ï‚· A table of contents [not included in word count]. ï‚· Introduction. Combined Milk Products Pty Ltd (CMP) Combined Milk Products Pty. Ltd. (CMP) was founded in 1963 in Cranbourne, Victoria by Peter Frost, a former East Gippsland farmer. From humble beginnings as a milk processor for the local dairy farmers, the company has grown into a multi-million dollar mixed-product firm with a strong penetration in the Australian market, and a developing export business. Not only is a large range of milk produced now (whole milk, reduced fat, skinny, flavoured etc.), but also butter, cheese, yoghurt, and dried milk. Every morning, a fleet of spotless stainless steel CMP tankers leaves the factory to collect the whole milk from selected farms in the area. When the tankers return, the thousands of litres of milk is pasteurised and homogenised, after which the milk is either packaged or undergoes further processing to become skinny milk, butter, cheese, etc. A second fleet of refrigerated trucks then delivers the product to major distributors around Australia. The factory office workers keep details on farmers, product manufacture, and distributors. The sales team keep records of sales data (refer section on Sales Data). Recently a new general manager, Michael Johnson, took over the reins from Peter Frost who retired.

This report is based on the company CMP or Combined Milk Products Private Limited that was founded in the year 1963. It began its journey as a diary that has now grown into a multi millionaire business. The company produces a varied range of milk products like cheese, dried milk, yoghurt and butter apart from supplying milk. This report describes how the use of new technology can help the company grow even more.  Business intelligence can be enhanced by the use of a simple tool like MS Excel. It is also described in the report that how web 2.0 can be collaborated in the company to enhance the business and what tools can be used  for this collaboration.
PART A

1.    Process modeling can provide many benefits to organizations and companies. Some reasons are listed below:
Executing a business procedure or another plan of action obliges changes in the operations and in how individuals perform their work. This can be influenced just by operating the business changes to the genuine business forms, business guidelines and choices that are made on an everyday premise by every one of the individuals in the association.
Process Modeling enable the communicating and documenting of the company’s business processes: Process model offers a distinctive bound together strategy and dialect for imparting data and procedures about choice and procedures tenets.
These days the surroundings of business needs to certify that they are accomplishing the best results with the assets available to them. There is no space for inefficiencies and wastage. Process Simulation permit examination and comprehension of the procedure streams and helps directors know whether there is space for further streamlining and efficiencies. It helps spot required upgrades and lessen procedure process duration. The most important benefit that can be gained by using process model is gaining advantage in the market. It is highly need in this competitive world. This is because the competition has increased in a vast speed and thus all the company wants to be ahead of their competitor.