Dirt Bikes and Technology
The benefit of technology in a company far outweighs the initial costs, because it increases overall productivity if properly managed. The introduction of an intranet (a local network for the exchange of information) will be helpful to employees who are wanting to save their ideas or other types of documents that are important to company functionality. Also by introducing a company intranet it will allow for the other departments to communicate with each other.
For human resources it would be easier for them to maintain employee records if they were able to have access to a file share structure that would allow them to monitory employees’ benefits, salaries, and when they were due for evaluations. The accounting department could automate all of their purchase orders using enterprise accounting software. This software could also keep track of employee travel, pay, and other expenses associated with running the business. By using the enterprise software different department could electronically submit their purchase orders, check requests, and employee travel to demonstrations and other trade shows. This would also cut down on the amount of storage space required for vendor files because the company could keep everything on a server which the accounting department can use to pull up old invoices without having to search through files. This will also save time because with the process being almost entirely automated the accounting department would just have to fill in the blanks on the documentation and it would create the purchase order and save a copy in its repository at the same time. The manufacturing division could use order tracking software in order to keep the amount of surplus parts to a minimal and will allow for them to automatically order new materials and keep track of what the status of those orders were. The production