ABC is a local company that operates in the clothing industry and is located in Jabal Ali Dubai, UAE. It manufactures kids' clothes for different seasons of the year. It has multi-departments including production, marketing & sales, finance, human resources, and research and development. It has several suppliers, especially from the far east, and distributors in the GCC, Africa, and Europe. It enjoys numerous warehouses around Jabal Ali for exporting and importing goods. The company also works with several global logistic companies that help ABC move its merchandise to different distributors and from its suppliers. ABC runs high-profile outlets in the GCC to sell directly to customers. It has a large customer base in the region because of the high-quality product it offers.

Your task is to design an information technology architecture that allows ABC to run its business in an efficient and competitive manner. For this purpose, you need to: a. Identify the software packages that ABC should possess to achieve its aim. b. Describe the role of every package and the benefits it provides to the business. c. Illustrate your solution with a high-level architecture. d. Take two concrete business processes and explain how the information flows to achieve the purpose of these processes. You must refer to the architecture in c. in your explanation. e. Suggest at least two implementations of this architecture and provide a critical evaluation between these two implementations and recommend the best to ABC.

Report Structure:

a. An Abstract b. Introduction c. Answer all the questions as mentioned above

d. Conclusion e. References