Reference no: EM131978996

E-Business Application Assignment -

This assessment task relates to the following course objectives: Apply the concepts of process modelling and e-procurement to model and re-engineer supply chain processes.

Assessment Description - This practical exercise assesses students' ability to apply theoretical learning to practical, real world situations. In this exercise students must use a leading SaaS process modelling application, IBM Blue Works Live, to model a real life process. Then, students should apply the concepts of e-procurernent to re-engineer the process to reduce process cost and time.

Task Description -

1. You are given an actual hospital procurement process (see Figure 1 attached). This is to be modelled as the 'As Is' Process using IBM Blue Works Lives. Sign up for the 1 month free trial of the full version of this SaaS application.

Export your process, or use screen shots to depict your process diagram in your report.

2. Provide a report on your BlueWorksLive As Is Model analysis. This is to include:

i. Comments

ii. Problems

3. Based on the objectives of e-procurement, an automated, improved 'To Be' process is to be proposed. Use your imagination! The 'To Be' process is to be presented as a new BlueWorksLive Process.

Provide your analysis. In particular, how have addressed the following problems:

• Backorder problem. The supplier has no stock and the hospital does not find out for a week until the start of the next ordering cycle.
• Three-way match problem. The invoice, GRN (Goods Received Note) and Invoice need to be matched by Accounts Payable to pay the supplier. These 3 documents often do not match resulting in a short or delayed payment to the supplier.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar