Assignment Specifications

Background

You are recently employed as a graduate consultant in a management consultancy firm. One of your firm’s clients is currently evaluating its information systems and the Managing Director of your client thinks that they needed to make an investment in an Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system to support the growth of the business.

Required

You are required to prepare a report to evaluate and recommend a ERP software for an Australian ASX-listed company of your choice (your firm’s client). The report should include the following components:

 Background

o Provide a description of your client and its business activities.

o Discuss the key business processes for your client.

 Systems requirements

o Outline the software features and functionalities that your client should consider to support its business activities.

 Software selection

o Visit the websites of at least three (3) ERP software vendors and provide a brief description of each vendor and its products.

o Compare and contrast the features/functionalities of three ERP software packages offered by the vendors.

o Identify the most suitable vendor and ERP software package for your client and explain why it is the best option.

Assignment Structure

The report should include the following components:

 Assignment cover page clearly stating your name and student number

 A table of contents, executive summary

 A brief introduction or overview of what the report is about.

 Body of the report with sections to answer the above issues and with appropriate section headings

 Conclusion

 List of references

The report should be grounded on relevant literature and all references must be properly cited and included in the reference list.

Criteria

Provide a description of your client and its business activities

Discuss the key business processes for your client

Outline the software features and functionalities that your client should consider to support its business activities

Visit the websites of at least three (3) ERP software vendors and provide a brief description of each vendor and its products

Compare and contrast the features/functionalities of three ERP software packages offered by the vendors

Identify the most suitable vendor and ERP software package for your client and explain why it is the best option

Presentation

Research quality