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Scenario
Company XYZ is a manufacturing company that has being operating on the Industrial Belt in Kingston Jamaica for 25 years. Since the start of their operation, the company’s daily activities have been extremely manual. For the past two years the company has seen a significant drop in revenues and they are unable to track their creditors, and reconcile their accounts receivables and payables. Also, Paul who is the head of the Production Team regularly orders raw materials even when the company has sufficient in its warehouse. He is also unable to tell if their new product that was just released on the market is doing well and in which region it has received its lowest sale. Due to this, Michelle, his manager has labeled him as a poor decision maker, inefficient and unproductive. Michelle now complains that it is very difficult to rely on Paul’s assessments of the Production activities and due to this she is unable think of competitive strategies, properly run the department and think of ways to stay competitive in an already competitive market. In the company’s regularly quarterly report to the Board, Michelle stated that Paul’s actions are causing the company millions in loses and if the financial wounds aren’t cauterized quickly, the company will become a figment of Jamaicans imagination in 2023. The chairman of the board then tasked Michelle to come up with a solution in three weeks to make the company remains viable as they are thinking expanding to the Caribbean in the next five years. Michelle then hired you as a consultant to help the company become automated and modern.
1. Examine the characteristics and limitation of these recommended systems
2. Examine how XYZ can prevent information bias when these systems are implemented
3. Advise XYZ of how to better manage their suppliers of raw materials using technology
4. Examine how XYZ departments can benefit from collaboration and why it is important. Justify your answer
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