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You are approached by Mr Smith who runs a medium sized business, that due to Covid-19 restrictions has Restructured. The company used toproduce one item and despatch of this item by delivery services to one major customer, who acted as a retailer. This customer has had to close during Covid lockdown and the business now sells direct to retail customers and has taken up delivery to the customers using their own trucks. In the past Mr Smith has used a basic accounting package, which was adequate for the company's needs, but now with orders coming off the company website, and being manually processed and despatched he is concerned that the accounting package is not suitable. He has heard of the term ERP and wonders what it means and if it would be of use to his organisation.

You are to prepare thereport for Mr Smith to present to his board that will:

(a) critically explain how to structure the components of an ERP system and in particular the components of an Accounting Information System to maximise the benefit of their use in Mr Smith's organizational setting, and

b. Critically explain and evaluate the business process documents that Mr Smith would require his ERP system to produce.