Implementation of Enterprise Information System (EIS)

Implementation of Enterprise Information System (EIS)

The process of implementing a new system within the organization takes abroad aspect in ensuring that the organization deals with the current issues related to its product offering. A change in the system works in changing the entire market of the organization. Since the products offered by an organization have specific specifications and deal entirely with a particular group of individuals trying to satisfy their demand, its essential that the organization makes significant changes to its product offering in an aim of creating a more competitive approach all through.

The new enterprise information system works miracles in transforming the communication and decision-making aspect within the organization. The management benefits mainly from the approach to fast-tracking the profound benefits of the system. Furthermore, due to the changes brought by the new system, it’s of more significant need to change the entire organization structure and its operations to suit the current market needs(Vrana, 2012). To ensure the effectiveness of the system, the organization compelled to change and embrace significant differentiation strategies in their product offering and create a more appealing product that would sell to their new market and increase their general competitiveness. This memo tries to address a few instances through which the new system will be in a position to adapt with new products within the organization market structure continually..

Organization changes in product offering

The onset of a new system that helps in critical decision making and transforms the entire organization processes and operations, there is a need for the organization to focus on significant changes within their product offering. These organization changes to product offering would involve;

Organization staff

The new information system consists of the automation of services and process within the organization. However, since the tradition of the organization includes continued human involvement in product development, its essential that the possible changes are in line with different employee skills. The scraping of title within the various departments will help create a more appealing product within the market. The interlink between the system and organization operations will work in ensuring that employees are well competent, and they utilize their skills in developing a more competitive product in the market. With this in mind, the organization should consider training staff in new roles and adopting new strategies in production. It would mean a better way of controlling the product appeal to the customers as the conformance to quality and user specifications will continually get attained in the new product offering.

Focusing on one product line

An array of products primarily constitutes the product offering of the organization. However, there is a need to shift the organization focus to a limited number of products with better market share and that which ensures productivity and performance of the organization. Primarily, the new enterprise information system aims at creating a more connected and ease of decision-making organization. In managing its product offering for the next three years, the organization needs to achieve the most profitable and improve on the rest of their products continuously. It will help manage the different loopholes that would become created within the change process, and this will also maintain their product competitiveness in the market.

The batch sizes

Significantly, the aspect of batch size in the organization production need revisiting in a way that in the next three years, there is a significant increase in the batch size that the organization offers.  The automation of processes through better information delivery will enhance better and informed decision making within the organization. However, the product offering of the organization will increase in specific products through the creation of more flexible decision-making processes and concentration of continued product development and production into the market.

Information system adapting to new products

The new enterprise information systems bring on board several issues to discuss. However, its most significant achievement would be adapting to new product changes or lines. With the automation of processes and effectiveness of operations, the system is flexible enough to accommodate unique product characteristics. As the significant role of the system is managing information sharing, the process of accepting analyzing and quantifying further information about a product would be well maintained.  Additionally, the ability to operate in real time by the system helps it acquire more information concerning the new product and increases its ability to act in line with the specifications and quality requirements.

Additionally, the new product would well get developed by the system through the creation of imaging and the adoption of prior information that may link to the new product. Furthermore, the adapting aspect of the system to a new product line well managed as the system becomes easily controlled by specific individuals.  Through automation, different departments involved in product design and development would be able to continually interact and offer different ways to create a new product and ensure it suits the organization product line. Generally, the system is flexible and can accommodate various aspects of new products through proper management and continued monitoring through operations.

Reasons for not incorporating new product capabilities in system design

New products within the organization require a different approach in terms of managing their abilities, and this affects the systems developed within the same organization. However, regarding the enterprise information system, better management of new product must get addressed in a significantly different way(Akroush, 2012). The primary reason as to why the organization new products capabilities not included within the system design is due to the continued changes in product specifications by customers. Probably, a new product may share specifications with an already existing product or may carefully relate in one way or another. It would be easier for the organization to produce the new product with the already existing specifications as a way of creating the effect of its products. Similarly, dealing with the changes in product specifications each time a new product design would mean continued improvement of the system.  However, this would disrupt production within the organization and lead to losses in business.

Conclusion

The new system implementation process and its functionality within the organization creates more impact to its change process and ensures a successful process of change within the organization. The system is quite flexible and would significantly adapt to changes within the organization operations and which would shift both the organization performance and is product competitiveness.  Ensuring the employees are well conversant with the new system operations would mean a more significant step ahead in managing and running the organization affairs.

The three components, organization staff, product batch sizes and concentration of one product line within the organization form the necessary change process of the organization in adopting and maintaining the new system and its changes. Most importantly, the product within the organization requires prior planning to get incorporated within then new system, and this calls for initial plans in terms of changes within the organization and the possible shift in product offering in the organization future. The management significantly plays a vital role in the changes and ability of the system to impact change within the organization operations. Ensuring that all processes are well managed and coordinating all possible alternatives in implementing the new system within the organization.

References

Akroush, M. (2012). Organizational capabilities and new product performance. Competitiveness Review, 22(4), 343-365. doi: 10.1108/10595421211247178

Vrana, I. (2012). How to approach the development of an enterprise information system. Agricultural Economics (ZemědělskáEkonomika), 50(No. 1), 41-46. doi: 10.17221/5165-Agric econ