APPLICATION AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURES
Introduction
The Reliable Pharmaceutical Service, suffering from the declined in revenue and profit. Several reasons for the decline included the following:
• Price controls in both Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and contracts with facilities managed by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and large national health-care companies
• Increasing competition from national retail pharmacy chains such as Walgreens and in-house pharmacies at large local hospitals
• Inefficient operating procedures, which haven’t received a comprehensive review or overhaul in almost two decades
The Reliable Pharmaceutical Service management team developed a strategic plan, the key element of which is a major effort to streamline operations to improve service and reduce costs.
Application Architecture Plan For the application architecture plan, the determined solutions for the 5 year plan of streamline operation to improve services and reduce costs are to apply the following:
1. Supply chain management (SCM): Implement systems that seamlessly integrate product development, product acquisition, manufacturing, and inventory management in anticipation of rapid sales growth.
2. Customer support system (CSS): Implement an order-processing and fulfillment system that seamlessly integrates with the supply chain management systems to support mail, phone, and Web-based ordering.
3. Strategic information management system (SIMS): Implement an information system that can extract and analyze supply chain and customer support information for strategic and operational decision making and control. Package solution.
4. Accounting/finance: Purchase a package solution, definitely an intranet application, to maximize employee access to financial data for planning and control.
Technology Architecture Plan
The Technology Architect plan for Reliable Pharmaceuticals Service for the 5 years solution will consist centralizing the way the organization streamline operation to improve
The Reliable Pharmaceutical Service, suffering from the declined in revenue and profit. Several reasons for the decline included the following:
• Price controls in both Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and contracts with facilities managed by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and large national health-care companies
• Increasing competition from national retail pharmacy chains such as Walgreens and in-house pharmacies at large local hospitals
• Inefficient operating procedures, which haven’t received a comprehensive review or overhaul in almost two decades
The Reliable Pharmaceutical Service management team developed a strategic plan, the key element of which is a major effort to streamline operations to improve service and reduce costs.
Application Architecture Plan For the application architecture plan, the determined solutions for the 5 year plan of streamline operation to improve services and reduce costs are to apply the following:
1. Supply chain management (SCM): Implement systems that seamlessly integrate product development, product acquisition, manufacturing, and inventory management in anticipation of rapid sales growth.
2. Customer support system (CSS): Implement an order-processing and fulfillment system that seamlessly integrates with the supply chain management systems to support mail, phone, and Web-based ordering.
3. Strategic information management system (SIMS): Implement an information system that can extract and analyze supply chain and customer support information for strategic and operational decision making and control. Package solution.
4. Accounting/finance: Purchase a package solution, definitely an intranet application, to maximize employee access to financial data for planning and control.
Technology Architecture Plan
The Technology Architect plan for Reliable Pharmaceuticals Service for the 5 years solution will consist centralizing the way the organization streamline operation to improve