the course is Enterprise Systems

The Role of ERP Systems in Industry 4.0
The Role of ERP Systems in Industry 4.0
Implementation on the Case Study - AUBURN WINE COMPANY
Contents
Executive Summary    2
Background    3
Current Dynamics of Business - AWC    4
Overview of Functional Aspects    6
Deep Diving into Processes Re-engineering in Business    7
Existing Business Framework of AWC    8
Future Business and Potential    9
Overall Process of Implementation    9
Organisation of Project    11
Strategy for the Overall Implementation    11
Implementation of Change    12
References    14
Executive Summary
By the virtue of this project proposal, I will share detailed explanation of the implementation of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) offering at the company AWC. It is usually anticipated that solution offered will enable the company to attain long-term goals to expand its operation to gauge different customers segments. Furthermore, implementation of ERP can also enable the company to streamline business activities and keep the entire service offerings up-to-date.
As an organisation, AWC have always concentrate in driving customer excellence by offering exquisites wine in the industry. AWC has also maintained very comprised turnaround time thereby reaching to the customers at much shorter span of time relative to its competitors. Vision of senior leadership at the company is to harness complete potential of ICT and different technologies to integrate systems with business. At present the current procedures and systems of the company doesn’t include one unified communication and information systems which can be one-stop solution for the business stakeholders. For instance, as of now company can't gather all the information of let’s say inventory which results in tremendous discrepancies.
Essentially, this business proposal is developed after performing extensive analysis on the ERP systems in the company, AWC. I propose that SAP HANA would be best aligned with the current requirement of the company. This software can minimise the operational expenses and redundancy prevailing in the business operations. Furthermore, this proposal also aims to offer detailed information about the AWC's current state of systems, required functional areas that calls for re-engineering, extended implementation of ERP system.
Background
AWC, Auburn Wine Company is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia. This is the largest plant to produce the glass bottles and a warehouse for wine storage in the Port Adelaide. It is also a branch in Sydney. Furthermore, the business has also added restaurant, three wineries in south Australia. Majority of revenue for the business is derived from the Wineries. Therefore, greatest business strategy of AWC in the coming four to five years is to focus on expansion such that company can reach out to vast customer base and incorporate new sales. This can boost the overall revenue of the business and has the potential to double the revenue.
Organisation Structure of Company
Below is the high-level organisational structure of the company
    Identifications
    Assumptions
    AS01
    It is expected that AWC is completely novice in the implementation of ERP system. ERP =0 (no implementation of enterprise system)
    AS02
    Business doesn’t have a strong Customer Relationship Management, Marketing and HR
    AS03
    There is absolutely no integration that is available within the IT systems
    AS04
    Transfer of data takes place manually in the form of excel spreadsheet by taking data from the emails and information available in the notepads
    AS05
    Business requires structured support for implementing ERP solution.
Current Dynamics of Business - AWC
Auburn Wine Company utilises a wide spectrum of IT systems to offer strong support to several business functions. There are several Information Systems used by the business that are discrete and doesn’t offer integration with current value offering. This restricts the business to expand its services. Essentially, each winery has its database to ensure there is strong data in the production. There is requirement of tremendous control on the inventory however, it is managed in the excel spreadsheet which demands lot of manual operations. The company requires automation to capture the real-time data of the production along with the bottling operations. It is the capability that company needs to develop if they want to harness the business potential through expansion. Each system technically needs to speak to each other like maintaining strong information system that doesn’t enable any sales as well as marketing operations.
Certain primary systems usually take into consideration at AWC like DataAction, Proprietary SCM, Peatree Module, Microsoft spreadsheets in Excel as well as Logistic Software. Customers usually offers tremendous offers inform of eCommerce web systems. Concentrating to prevailing constraints of the IT infrastructure, the company isn’t able to launch its services and products at the international standard nor can extend the market to several other locations.
    Business Functions
    Systems in the Company
    Commercial, Accounting and Finance
    DataAction
    Management of the Inventory
    Module of Peatree
    Management of Supply Chain
    SCM and Proprietary
    Management of Logisitcs
    Logistic initiatives on the Computer
    Planning of Production
    Spreadsheets in Excel
    Establishing of eCommerce Portal
    Website of Company
    Sales and Brand Marketing
    Not Applicable (NA)
    Human Capital Development
    Not Applicable (NA)
    CRM - Customer Relationship Management
    Not Applicable (NA)
Below is primary weakness that is identified with the Current State of the Company, AWC and the present IT Infrastructure
Dependability: The natural substance utilized by the AWC wineries is followed utilizing a Peartree module, yet the data and measure of unrefined substance are not coordinated with DataAction or to its exclusive SCM. Stock administration is essential to...