Our first assignment in Management Information System, facilitated by our facilitator Dr. Randy S. Gamboa, we are asked to choose a local companies or organizations and study about the usage of the Information System and the importance of it on their company, but we must first consult our teacher if the local organizations or companies will be fit or applicable to our studies. All companies nowadays are using Information System so that their companies or organization will be well organized or well planned. This study will help us understand and gather more information about our subject MIS. I suggest four local companies that can be found here in Davao and send it to our facilitator for approval but only two among them are approved, this are the Concentrix Davao SYNNEX Corporation Company and the Wilcon Builders Depot. Among the approved local companies I choose the Wilcon Builders Depot. I choose this company because i'm curious about this kind of company(lol).
Here are some overviews or information about the company I choose…
Build anything. We have everything...
Wilcon Builder's Supply was founded in 1977 in
In 2003, a sister company, Wilcon Builders' Depot was launched with its first outlet in Las Piñas, Alabang. Bigger in size and with more product lines to offer the customer, the company continues to offer the same services that have made Wilcon a household name in the construction supply industry and will be expanding to cater to more customers in the Philippines. Complimenting its smaller shops, the already established Depot outlets are scattered all over the metro offering a wide variety of items for a truly convenient one-stop shopping experience. As of 2009, Wilcon already has a total of 7 traditional Wilcon Supply outlets and 12 well-known Wilcon Depots all over the Metro and one in
sources: http://www.wilcon.com.ph/static/web_pages/aboutwilcon1-1.asp
Here are also some information about the usage of IT/IS in this company and the software company that manages their system...
Wilcon Builders` Supply Signs Software Deal With Lawson
Philippine-based home building and construction supplier sees IT investment as a long-term strategy to support growth ST. PAUL, Minn.--(Business Wire)-- Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced that Wilcon Builders` Supply signed a contract to implement the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System to help support the company`s business and distribution operations. The Philippines-based company signed the contract during Lawson`s second quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended Nov. 30, 2008.
The Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System provides a number of integrated business application suites that cover core and supporting business processes, including financial management, customer relationship management, supply chain planning, supply chain execution, business intelligence, and mobility. The Wilcon project will include a comprehensive implementation of the Lawson M3 system and will initially support approximately 140 users throughout the company.
"This new relationship with Wilcon is more evidence that we are becoming the obvious choice for retail/wholesale and distribution companies by delivering industry-specific functionality that helps deliver greater value and a strong return on investment," said David Hope, vice president and managing director for Lawson Asia. "And with more than 800 employees in the
"We are investing heavily in cutting-edge IT in spite of the current economic climate, because we see technology as a platform to enhance and support the growth of our business," said William Belo, president and CEO of Wilcon. "For instance, automating warehouse processes, enabling shop floor mobility and gleaning reports using Lawson Business Intelligence can help us improve our customer service levels, especially when there is the potential of regional expansion in the future."
Wilcon`s decision to select Lawson came after an evaluation of competing offerings from other enterprise software providers. "After listening to what all the vendors had to say, we felt Lawson offered the best overall solution fit in terms of the size of its operations in the region and the depth of its expertise in distribution and retail. This is also reflected in the numerous references Lawson has in the industry, which was a key driver in our decision," added Belo.
sources: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS151774+14-Jan-2009+BW20090114
INFORMATION SYSTEM AND BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
The Importance of Information Technology and Information Systems
All medium to large organizations depend on Information technology for their continued survival. Consider organizations like British Gas, British Telecom, the Power and Water companies having to manually calculate, millions of customer bills every month or quarter! Clearly the clerical effort involved would make it difficult if not impossible for the organization to make a profit. Similar arguments apply to many other organizations such as the high street banks, central and local government. A recent article in the Daily Telegraph IT supplement suggested that many large organizations could last no longer than 24 hours without IT support! There should be little wonder that attitudes to the development of information systems have changed over the years from an ad hoc almost cavalier approach to a professionally managed, disciplined, planned, and engineering approach.
Strategic Information Systems Planning
Organizations typically develop rolling business plans, they are constructed by taking into account the current business, the external influences on the business (e.g. the economy, government policy and technological advances), and the aims and objectives of the most senior levels of management. The strategic business plan describes how the organization will strive to move from the current business to the target business.
In the past information systems were developed simply to improve the efficiency of specific business functions. More recently information systems have been viewed as tools for obtaining competitive advantage. Avison and Fitzgerald (1995) have discussed the following ways in which information systems can help to achieve competitive advantage
"Redefine the boundaries of particular industries
Develop new products or services,
Change the relationships between suppliers and customers,
Establish barriers to deter new entrants to marketplaces."
Porter (1980) identifies five competitive forces that any organization needs to consider:-
1. Threat of new entrants.
2. Bargaining power of customers.
3. Threat of substitute products or services.
4. Bargaining power of suppliers.
5. Rivalry among existing firms.
Earl (1989) extends Porter’s work by illustrating the strategic role that Information Technology (IT) can play in addressing these forces. The result of Earl’s work is a ‘multiple’ methodology. The methodology adopts a three pronged approach to strategic information systems development. The first prong involves the top-down analysis of business objectives using Critical Success Factors (CSF), SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis and Porter’s five forces. The second prong involves bottom-up analysis of existing systems and the third prong emphasize the creative use of IT.
Bullen and Rockart (1984) have produced a strategic information systems methodology based on CSF analysis. The methodology involves the analysis of business goals and objectives and the factors critical to achieving those objectives. The next stage is the identification of the information systems required to support these CSFs.
The discussion so far has emphasized a holistic approach, looking at high level business objectives rather than detailed functional requirements. These approaches emphasize the importance of shared corporate data, an issue which will be discusses in detail in the next section.
sources:http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/tdhutchings/chapter1.html#head2
...reflecting on this researches and ideas, this will satisfy how the Wilcon Depot uses the information system for their business strategies. Information Systems support is necessary to achieve the strategic business plan, such as (Wilcon Builder Depot) so the business plan feeds into a Strategic Information Systems Plan, which describes how the current IT systems are intended to evolve into the target IT systems. A 'big bang' approach is infeasible; therefore a project based approach is used. The output of the it is a series of development projects which will either involve modifying existing systems or developing new systems (which are likely to have to interface or integrate with existing systems).
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