Information Technology in

Management – Project Synopsis

Mahek Dagha (125), Manpreet Mann (126), Shreya Mishra (127), Amlan Mitra (128), Sujit Mathew
(129), Aditya Nair (130)

Problem Scenario:
A fictitious medium sized automobile manufacturing company needs to manage its resources better,
reduce cost of operations and increase productivity by planning at functional and process levels.

Objective:
The organisation plans to leverage on modularized transaction processing systems in place, integrate
them on an incremental basis and analyse aggregated data to generate Management Information
System reports to facilitate upper management to make more logical decisions.

Scope:
Below is the conceptual system design of the firm:

Manufacturing Firm

Marketing R&D Manufacturing& Prod Finance Human Resources Sales

Purchase & Material Vendor Development

Warehousing

We will be considering the internal functionalities of the highlighted modules for the purpose of our
project. Concerned modules are:

Order Processing
  Purchase and Material Control
 Marketing
 Accounting and Billing

The underlying database structures of the mentioned departments will be elaborated and their
historical data would be used for analytical processing. Each module will have its own entity
relationship model and their interoperability will be facilitated by referential constraints. We would
be generating two detailed reports for each of these modules.

Reports:
From the relational database structure, we will be deducing reports in graphical/tabular formats for
analytical purposes.

Purchase and Material Control:

- Supplier Performance: The comparative study of values of goods obtained from different
suppliers.
- Stock out: Checking if demand of product can be fulfilled by current on-hand inventory.

Marketing:

- Trend Analysis: Historical inference of demand of product in the market in different months.
- Cluster Analysis: Checking for market segmentation on the basis of popularity in different
regions.

Accounting and Billing:

- Break Even analysis: If the expenditures are covered by the incomes and whether we are
breaking even.
- Cash flow analysis: Checking for the amounts owed to and by creditors and debtors
respectively.

Benefits:
- Improved day-to-day processing with the help of streamlined information flow across
different departments.
- Better analysing tools to help management in improving efficacy of the available resources
to boost productivity (effectiveness and efficiency).