Essay: Operational Challenges & Solutions In Lion Beverage Co.

Write a literature review the review should demonstrate that the student has thoroughly researched their topic.

1. The current organizational structure
2. What operational problems do you think the organisation could experience because of this structure?
3. What is the most likely system acquisition method commercial software, custom software, or ERP?
4. Describes and prepare a system flowchart of the sales procedures for the chosen organisation (company)
5. Identify any control problems in the system and what sorts of fraud are possible in this system?

1. Development and adoption of the accounting software packages,
2. Identify the leaders in the market and what gives them the competitive advantage,
3. Identify the current gaps or challenges encountered by users or customers of accounting software/packages and make relevant suggestions or recommendations.

Organizational Structure of Lion Beverage Company

The paper reflects on the organization “Lion Beverage Company” which is one of the leading beverage as well as Food Company that generally operates in New Zealand as well as Australia (Lionco.com 2017).  The main objective of the paper is to reflect on the structure of the organization for analyzing various types of operational problems, which are associated with it. The paper elaborates that ERP system is considered as one of the most important as well as likely acquisition method that is utilized for resolving various types of issues that are associated with the organizational structure of lion’s beverage company. A flowchart is provided for illustrating the sales system if the system.

Organizational structure is defined as a system that is utilized for elaborating the hierarchy within an organization.  It is also useful in determining various roles, power as well as responsibilities, which are assigned, coordinated as well as controlled by different levels of management. It is analyzed that the structure of an organization plays an important role in providing an overview about the various functional procedures that are associated with the various aspects of the organization (Lionco.com 2017).  The figure below is the organizational structure of lion Beverage Company that helps in reflecting the hierarchy that is followed by the organization.

Figure 1: Organizational structure

(Source: Zhang, Hoque and Isa 2015, pp.229)

The organizations structure is found to be one of the most important aspect for managing as well as simplifying the growth of the organization in context to different perspective of organization’s development. Additionally, in order to manage their sustainable standards in the market, the organization mainly competes with its different competitors. It is stated by Fan, Wong and Zhang (2013), that there are numerous departments within a company and each of the departments must be managed appropriately for achieving success as well as functional benefits for the organization. The numbers of problems, which the organization “Lion Beverage Company” faces, include:

Improper communication: It is identified that improper communication is one of the significant operational issue for the organization as the company faces some significant challenges that are associated with the management procedure as well as structure development of the organization (Subramanian, Venkateswaran and Fu 2013). The organization does not take appropriate communication measures and as a result conflict rises, which further creates obstruction in achieving various functional benefits from the target markets. Additionally, the lion beverage companies are unable to treat all their employees equally and as a result, lower grade staffs do not get appropriate priority.

Operational Challenges Faced by Lion Beverage Company

Inappropriate strategic management: The growth potential of the organization is dependent on the structure of the organization. Additionally, various strategic decision-making processes as well as functionalities are generally managed in context to proper organizational structure and it is analyzed that it is not present within the Lion beverage company, which helps in creating number of issues that are associated with strategic decision-making (Zhang, Hoque and Isa 2015). The lion beverage company lost their sustainability in order to manage various target markets in contexts to organizational structure.

Reduced productivity: It is analyzed that reduced productivity is one of the important issue that generally raises poor structure of the organization.  The reason behind the lion’s poor organizational structure is that the company does not provide appropriate amount of concentration while developing the organizational structure in context to various goals as well as objectives (Lionco.com 2017).  Additionally, there are number of important approaches as well as functional areas of development, which is not managed properly by the organization, which include communication standards, supply chain management as well as productivity measures.

Inefficient supply chain management: Improper supply chain management is considered other important issue that is mainly associated with the structure of the organization creates number of issues in context to organizational growth (Subramanian, Venkateswaran and Fu 2013). The organizational structure assists in making the relation of the organization with other stakeholders weak, which further raises number of issues related with the supply chain management of the organization.

Inefficient human resource management: Lion beverage company does not have appropriate human resource management facility in order to manage various work processes of the organization which are generally associated with the various processes as well as functionalities of the organization (Zhang, Hoque and Isa 2015). All this aspects generally rises due to improper organizational structure as well as functionalities of Lion Beverage Company.

The ERP system is found to be the most important acquisition method by the organization “Lion Beverage Company”. It is stated by Lin, Zhao and Wei (2014), that enterprise resource planning assists in providing  a tool to both the users as well as to the managers so that they can be able to create appropriate as well and accurate forecast. This helps in mitigating the various issues, which are associated with inappropriate forecasting due to the structure of the organization. On the other hand, it is stated by Chou et al. (2014) that Lion Beverage Company can utilize the ERP system for getting appropriate collaboration between various departments by reducing the conflict that generally arise due to inappropriate communication within the company.

Solution to Operational Issues: Utilization of Enterprise Resource Planning System

According to Zach, Munkvold and Olsen (2014), enterprise resource planning assists in minimizing the repetitive process, which further helps in eliminating the procedure of manual entry of important data as well as information. The system also assists in streamlining different procedures in order to make it very much easier as well as efficient for the organizations that are helpful in gathering different amounts of data. On the other hand, it is argued by Lin, Zhao and Wei (2014) that is very much simple to provide proper quality of service to the customers by using ERP. Thus, Lion Beverage Company can utilize ERP system for providing appropriate product as well as service to its customers.

The figure below reflects the sales flowchart of Lion’s beverage company, which helps in identifying various issues that are associated with the organizational structure as well as system architecture of Lion’s Beverage Company (Van and Broekmeulen 2013).

Figure 2: Sales system of Lion Beverage Company.

(Source: Created by author)

The different type of control challenges that generally occurs within the system is due to misplacement of various types of inventory items. A most important issue or challenge that is related with the design of the sales system is the system failure in integrating different types of procedures as well as methods, which are very much significant in cross-referencing various types of items. A common issues that is associated with the sales system design is the failure of the system to integrate those methods, which are quite helpful in cross-referencing different items (Viswanathan 2015).  It is identified that the various items can be lost, misplaced, or stolen that can create problems related with either inventory or labor costs.  Therefore, it is found that it is quite important to incorporate some specific designs solutions that will be helpful in cross checking different types of orders.

This paper mainly reflects on the development as well as adoption of accounting software, which is mainly considered as a type of software that is utilized by various professionals of accounting for managing different types of activities, which are related with accounting in order to perform various types of operations that are related with accounting. This paper reflects on the accounting software “Xero” for elaborating its adoption as well as development. The paper also illustrates the market size, leaders in the Australian market as various gaps as well as challenges that are associated with Xero.

Sales System of Lion Beverage Company

The packages of accounting software is found to be very much useful for the companies which are mainly situated in Australia along with different types of measures which are generally integrated with the organizational structure. In addition to this, it is found that Xero is a organization that is based in New Zealand. It is analyzed that organizations mainly develops software support in order to develop various functions as well as standards for operating various problems that are associated with accounting. It is identified that there are number of both medium as well as small-scale organization in the target market of Australia and they are generally utilizing accounting software packages for managing various problems that are associated with the accounts with appropriate excellence in the culture as well as structure of the organization (Drury and Vickers 2015). Moreover, this accounting software is helpful in changing both the standards as well as functionalities that are associated with the structure of the organization. It is very much important to maintain both the organizational demand as well as needs appropriately with the help of the technical team that generally involves in the operation of the accounting system. It is analyzed that the Xero accounting software is capable of providing both new processes as well as standards that further assists in managing the accounting details of the management.

The competitive market assists in elaborating that both MYOB as well as Xero are the organizations that are found to be the best-suited accounting software in Australian market. It is analyzed that the platform of Xero is considered best in order to manage different operations that are associated with the organization. In addition to this, Xero helps in providing effective support for managing different financial operations within the organization (Jenkins 2016). Xero also helps in offering automatic operational functionalities as well as features to various users as well as clients so that they can easily resolve various issues, which are associated with various manual operations. Xero accounting software packages also offers appropriate updates about various types of financial data, which further assists in reducing errors from the various data sets that are generally utilized or encountered within the system architecture (Hingorani, Beasley and Bradford 2015). There are number of benefits of Xero accounting software that is mainly provided to various users as well as customers in context to their requirements as well as demands. It is analyzed that Xero is very much advantageous as well as beneficial for various users as well as customers in comparison to other accounting software.

Accounting Software and its adoption

The various types of investigations that are performed by the Xero accounting software helps in elaborating that the accounting software assists in providing number of benefits that are illustrated below:

Interface simplicity: An appropriate as well as simple user interface is mainly offered by the architecture of the accounting software. It is found that both the functional and fundamental development of standards of accounting software helps in providing details that are mainly related with the operational structure of the organization. In addition to this, there are number of issues as well as challenges that must be managed appropriately in a quite simpler way in terms of operational measures (Dunbar, Laing and Wynder 2016). The Xero assists in providing proper user interface to both the users in order to attract them in terms of the usability of the application.

Cloud based set up: Xero is considered as one of the accounting software that is dependent on cloud set up for providing appropriate information to various users as well as clients in context to their requirements as well as choices (Dimitriu and Matei 2014). It is analyzed that cloud based system are very much advantageous in providing proper competitive advantage over the choices of the users.

Appropriate collaboration among users: It is identified that functional as well as fundamental areas of development within any of the organization helps in achieving proper collaboration among numerous users in context to various changing situations.

Fast functional outputs:  It is identified that different types of functional operations as well as solutions are mainly offered to different client as well as users by getting appropriate help of the set up of the Xero accounting software.

Integrative system architecture:  Xero mainly offers appropriate integrative system to both the users as well as to the to the functional blocks that are mainly involved with the development of significant architecture for managing different types of financial database which are mainly involved within the organization.

There are number of important challenges as well as gaps, which are associated with Xero accounting software. The gaps as well as challenges are elaborated below:

Time consumption: Proper amount of time is needed in order to manage as well as install the accounting software within various functional system of the organization, which further helps in managing appropriate development of accounting details that are associated with the project (Oram 2014).

Security issues: Xero is considered as a cloud based software solution thus it requires proper privacy as well as authentication I order to keep the data as well as information secure.

Complexity: It is analyzed that Xero accounting software is very much complex in comparison to other accounting software that is generally offered within the competitive market for its appropriate replacement (Hingorani, Beasley and Bradford 2015).

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