Strategic Information Systems for Business and Enterprise Assessment Title: System Analysis and Selection 3000 words, Harvard referencing style, Include a minimum of thirteen (13) references, at least...

ERP Solution for BlueScope
ERP Solution for BlueScope
Tables of Contents
Executive Summary    2
1.0 Background of Selected Business - BlueScope Steel Limited    3
1.2 Description of Business of BlueScope    4
1.3 Existing Challenges in the BlueScope    5
1.4 Potential Solutions for BlueScope    6
2.0 System Requirements from Enterprise Systems from BlueScope    7
2.1 Selection of Appropriate ERP    8
2.2 ERP Solution for BlueScope    10
2.3 Background of ERP Selected - SAP    10
3.0 Conclusion    11
4.0 References    13
5.0 Appendix    15
Executive Summary
Global ERP software industry has grown significantly in past decades and today it is worth more than $50 billion in 2020 (Laframboise, K. and Reyes, F., 2020). This is because of its tremendous use and powerful impact; any organisation wouldn’t be able to survive without a proper Enterprise Resource Planning. In today's dynamic era where globalisation is new fuel for survival and businesses are in constant competition with one another hence it is essential that it has required tools and infrastructure to function properly and in return provide competitive advantage to the business. Our client is one of the well-known successful company of Australia BlueScope which is known for its product differentiation and quality across the world since its inception. However, the organisation is facing some serious challenges in analysing the data generated from multiple different platforms. They aren’t able to comprehend significant bull-whip occurring in their supply chain process as well as losing out on big client deals since they aren’t able to identify who are their top customers who should be given investment of time and energy.
Well, the one stop solution to manage the different processes taking place in different departments as well as consistently managing data generated all across that can be actionable is provided by software and entire infrastructure of ERP. By the virtue of this report, I have performed extensive analysis on ERP system used by the organisations and provided insights on how it manages their business functions with centralised integrated system. In order to streamline the supply chain such that system is able to track all the moving parts from manufacturing to distribution and finally delivery. This assignment proved to be very insightful for me as I channelise the energy explaining what are the basic principles and issues associated with Enterprise Systems. Furthermore, in the report you will find explanation and description of the scope of common Enterprise Systems like Relationship and Engagement Management of Clients (CRM), Management of Supply Chain (SCM), HRM and sourcing. This report always provides in-depth analysis on challenges associated with the implementation of the Enterprise Systems and captures the corresponding effects and influence on the organisation. Final section of the report, provides you with demonstration of the enterprise system development life cycle from selection, acquisition, implementation and maintenance.
1.0 Background of Selected Business - BlueScope Steel Limited
BlueScope Steel Limited is one of the most well-known Australian manufacturing organisations that produces and manufactures of steel and heavy metal. This organisation sources most of its resources from neighbouring countries like New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Asia as well as North America. BlueScope Steel Limited demerged from BHP Billiton in the year 2002 and re-branded itself as the BlueScope Steel in the year 2003. It is public listed company in Australian Stock Exchange headquartered in Melbourne (Bluescope Steel, 2010). Senior leadership of the organisation includes John Bevan who is the Chairman and Mark Vasella who is the present CEO. In the year 2004, BlueScope merged with the American manufacturing organisation called Butler Manufacturing. This strategic move was headed by then CEO as well as MD of the firm Kirby Adams. This merger was one of the most strategic aspect for both the organisation that created a lot of synergies and the combined unit together emerged stronger. Since both the organisation BlueScope and Butler Manufacturing were much similar in its operations, both had similar characteristics and best part was they both operated in different geographic market.
Essentially this means that Butler opened the geography of United States as well as Chinese markets which significantly contributed in garnishing huge revenues for BlueScope (Bluescope Steel, 2016). If we dig deeper in Butler organisation then we can comprehend that it operated in sixteen different and concentrated its focus on non-residential constructions. In 2004, when BlueScope and Butler were merging it had nearly twelve production facilities across the China, Mexico and United States. Therefore, this merger proved to be very successful and profitable. In the year 2007, BlueScope organisation further acquired four companies that encompasses United States holding of Argentina Melt-Spam, Varco Pruden, ASC Profiles, Steelscape. In 2012, BlueScope also expanded in India bu constructing new steel manufacturing plant in Jamshedpur in Jharkhand State of India. BlueScope employees a vast staff of 16,000 personnel. Indeed, it is the largest operating plant in Australia and one of the market leaders in the manufacturing industry.
1.2 Description of Business of BlueScope
Steel Industry in Australia are facing colossal limitations because of which there is a massive failure in the market especially because of significant oversupply of steel. BlueScope as an organisation comprehend these challenges deeply and then curates the business strategy to approach the customer. Primary strategy to make BlueScope Steel as the brand of choice both domestically and internationally is to perform the things differently such that clients benefits from their rate of investment. Primary inclination of the organisation is to curate solutions specific to the client taking into the consideration of all market wings and challenges.
The main is to attract new business to become more powerful amongst industrial brands. Since BlueScope faces a lot of competition internally from domestic market as well as externally from the global market, primarily from China (Bluescope Steel, 2016). On the other hand, the cyclical nature of the industry puts all the more pressure to the organisation in order to establish a strong...