ITC211 Systems Analysis and Bakery Products

Task:

Australian Assorted Bakery (AAB) is a family-owned business that makes delicious and fresh bakery items and operates across all states of Australia. The company is looking to upgrade its current record keeping and management system and you are hired as a system design specialist to upgrade the existing system.

AAB Operating Model:

The company uses an existing record keeping and management system that performs various functions such as keeping record of financial transactions, store manager responsibilities and activities, point-of-sale (PoS), report generation, human resource management, marketing

activities, inventory record and purchase orders. Some of the key components of AAB business and operating model are:

1. Main ingredients: Company purchases a variety of ingredients (some examples are flour, sugar, chocolate, thicken cream, various essences and flavors, cheese, pulps and fillings, cleaning accessories, packaging, etc.) from different suppliers to make various bakery products

2. Fruits and vegetables: Other products like fruits and vegetables are purchased from a local grocery wholesalers.

3. Customers’ base: Company sells its prepackaged bakery products to a variety of customers through various outlets including restaurants, supermarkets, hospitals, café, and to other companies.

4. Pricing: To ensure a reasonable profitability, the AAB products are priced based on the estimated material cost that is used to produce bakery items. Due to the volatility in price of products, AAB updates the price of its products regularly.

Refer to background information provided in Assessments 1 and 2 regarding Australian

Assorted Bakery System project. Please refer to the marking guide when preparing your response to see what criteria and standards will be used to assess your work. Assessment Item 3 Tasks This assignment has two (2) tasks as described below:

Task 1: Design the system architecture, describing the important hardware and software components (servers, clients etc.) and their role. Justify your design decisions that involve a choice of technology or choice of software components. Draw one or more architecture diagrams to better illustrate your designs.

Task 2: Perform use case realization for any use case from the Australian Assorted Bakery System and draw a sequence diagram. You can use the SSD from assessment item 2 as guidlines.

This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

Be able to describe and apply feasibility study methods and approaches.

Be able to develop system requirements models.

Be able to demonstrate the ability to use the tools and techniques of object oriented and structured systems modelling.