INFORMATION SYSTEM

Information System



Information System

Case study 1 - Cropper's Brewery

The company was formed in October 1992. In 1993, the initial brew from the Grange Street site was an English Porter. The company undergone is rapid expansion that created the need to progress to larger premises although that was also outgrown and the business moved to the current North Melbourne location in 2005. There is the flexibility of brewing small batches with the two kettles of 5000L and 1200L and the 'economies of scale' with the bigger kettle. The company is brewing 1 million litres every year currently. The company maintains to include additional tanks to go with the expansion of the business. Packaging of the bottle is taken place on a bottling plant that whips out 330 ml bottles every hour. The company also offers 50 litre barrels for bars.

Business Information System is required to support the efficient operation of the expansion of Cropper's Brewery. The recommended Information System for the company is Management Information System that will cover several activities of business operation effectively and efficiently.

Management Information System

Management information System offers various benefits to the business firm. These benefits are very efficient and effective and provide coordination among departments; those are reliable and quick, can access to significant documents and data along with less usage of the labour, enhancement and perfection in departmental and organizational techniques, easy to manage day to day activities such as payroll, stock control, accounts and many more, daily assistance within the department and more rapidly contact across the world (Nowduri S., 2011, Pp.1).

Elements needed to address

The injection of new capital ($5 million) will enable the brewery to expand production and increase sales from a small number of outlets in Melbourne and regional Victoria to the other State capitals and regional NSW. However, a condition for this new investment is that a review of the business information system (BIS) needs is conducted so that a suitable set of BIS solutions can be formulated to support the growing business.

The benefits of having Management information system within the organization can save valuable time of the workforce. No need of employees of the company to collect data manually in order to do analysis and filing, rather information can be store promptly and can simply store in to the computer program. Raw material or data create difficulty for employees to do business analysis or to access the data or information. MIS can make easy for the business analysts to create programs in order to access the data quickly and can response to the management queries as soon as possible (Gorry & Morton, 1971). Getting faster access to the required information, managers can respond to the problem and can make improve or better decision about the future directions and procedures and competitive advantage and implement them quickly.

We all are living in the time that been changed and working in an information era. Managers have to deal with a huge amount of data, converting that data into valuable ...