Reference no: EM132354375

Assignment (Individual and group components)

The Company

Ceylon Textile Suppliers (CTS), an Australian owned organization based in Melbourne which supplies clothing-related products to Australian and New Zealand retail outlets on a sale or return basis. It has an annual turnover of around $ 60M and plans to expand this. The current business processes for operations have limited and ad-hoc IT systems to support them. Business processes are mainly manual, and the inter-departmental communication of information is mostly paper-based. There are a number of issues with operations recognised by the staff running these processes, which interfere with the smooth running of their departments.

Ceylon Textile Suppliers: new IT-based strategy

CTS's Board of Directors has declared a strategy to expand the business's operations to embrace the latest developments in information technologies, specifically web-based technologies and the opportunities it presents. This is likely to include a web interface and web presence beyond the purely brochure-style one in place. The strategy requires sales and stock operations should be automated, integrated support to achieve efficiency gains and the ability to inter-operate with any internet technologies and opportunities it presents to CTS's new strategy. The Board of Directors wants a phased implementation to realise benefits quickly and to minimise the risk of interruption to its core operations.

Holmes consultants

CTC's Board of Directors have contacted the Holmes Institute to help them to achieve their new strategic directions and requested a proposal to conduct a comprehensive review of its processes to identify areas for improvement and to implement their IT-based strategy. They also asked Holmes to propose a suitable internet-based automated solution to facilitate its new strategic initiative as the second stage of the project.

Project requirement

As a first step of the proposal, the Holmes consultants have prepared an initial review report that includes current processes related to sales orders, stock control and advertising campaign. Your task is to provide a system vison and requirement models for each subsystem and other necessary information to represent the current level scope, as indicated by the consultant's report. The requirement models and other necessary information should consist of:

For the whole system (group work):
1. One system vison document
For each identified subsystem (individual work):
2. Two activity diagrams to represent business processes
3. Event table with six events with use cases
4. Two user stories and acceptance criteria
5. A levelled set of dataflow diagrams (i.e. Context Diagram, Diagram 0, and one level 1 diagram)
6. A dataflow dictionary which describes all information flows in your level 0 dataflow diagram
7. A data dictionary describing all the attributes in your data model reflected in level 0 dataflow diagram.
8. Two process descriptions in level 1 diagram
9. Three use case diagrams
10. Two use case descriptions

For the whole system (group work):
11. Selection of a solution for the system

Assignment instructions

This assignment requires you to design requirement specification models for the following organisation and finally recommend an appropriate solution such as an ERP system that consists of a number of subsystems such as sales, purchases, marketing etc. Remember, a subsystem is a system that is part of a larger system. For example, a sales management system might be one subsystem of a customer relationship management (CRM) system. Another CRM subsystem might enable customers to view past and current orders, track order fulfilment and shipping, and modify their account information. A third CRM subsystem might maintain the product catalogue database and provide Web-based access to product specifications and manuals. A fourth CRM subsystem might provide technical support via telephone and a Web site with detailed tracking of customer support requests and related reporting to improve call centre management and product quality.

Attachment:- Systems Analysis and Design.rar