Reference no: EM132181977

Wheelies is a bicycle manufacturing company based in Holland. Wheelies turned $18 million in profit from a sale of $100 million with over 8 branches in Europe and 6 branches in America. Wheelies buy all the parts for its bicycles from various suppliers around the world.

The parts are then assembled in the factory in Holland and San Diego to produce a number of different bicycle models.

Customers of Wheelies place orders for the bicycles they require, and delivery is estimated to take three weeks. Each customer order can consist of more than one model of bicycle, and the required quantity of each model is also recorded on the order.

At the end of each week a forecast is produced so the manufacturing department knows how many of each bicycle model it needs to produce in the following week.

The forecast is based on the number of each model in stock and the quantity of each model ordered by customers. The forecast is also used to place purchase orders for parts from the suppliers so that all the necessary parts are available for the week's production. Each individual bicycle that is assembled has a unique code stamped on the frame.

Wheelies currently categorizes its bicycles into seven groups:

Road - Training, advanced and professional road bikes

Mountain - Includes bikes for various riding styles, from casual single-track to race- specific downhill bikes.

Comfort - A range of casual city bikes

Mode - Designed for teens

Indoor Cycling - Indoor fitness bikes

Family Cycling - Designed for children

Speciality - HALFWAY and the CLIP are the only bikes in this folding bike group

Core processes

• Financial Accounting

• Procurement (Materials Management)

Create Purchase Requisition>Create and send Purchase order>Receive goods from vendor >Receive invoice from Vendor >Send payment to vendor

• Fulfillment (Sales and Distribution)

Pre-sales activity>Process customer sales order>Pick and Pack ship good to customer>Send Invoice to customer>Receive Payment to Customer

• Production (Production Planning and Execution)

Create Planned order>CreateProduction Order>Issue material to production order from Inventory >produce and confirm Production >Receive material from Production to Inventory

Additional Processes

• Warehouse Management

• Material Planning

• Integrated Processes

• Customer Service

• Enterprise Asset Management

• Financial Accounting (Asset accounting)

• Human Capital Management (Recruitment and Hiring)

• Management Accounting (Profitability analysis, profit center accounting, product,

• cost accounting)

When a customer order is ready for dispatch, the frame code of each actual bicycle allocated to that customer order is recorded so that each bicycle can be traced to a particular customer.

Deliveries to customers can be arranged for complete or partial orders.Wheelies currently sponsor international cycling teams.

The most famous are the Wheelies- Shimano team and the Global Wheelies Mountain Bike Team, as well as many national teams.

You are hired by a company that is developing and implementing information systems. You are assigned to prepare a report and give a presentation to Wheelies that is not using integrated information system yet.

Your audience is a group of senior executives and high-level managerial and technical staff. Your objective is to convince them that integrated information systems would greatly improve their management and operation functions.

i.e. functions, software, hardware, data resources, network, development and implementation processes, management of information systems, how IS and IT can improve managing the company and assist the executives in achieving competitive advantage.

You also have to recommend suitable integrated information systems.Understanding integrated IS/IT systems and its components, its implementation process and the benefits their company can get by installing integrated information systems.