Introduction: FoodCo produces a range of perishable foods for supermarkets, and is based in the flat agricultural lands of the East Anglian region of the UK. John Evans, the present Chairman, started the company when he was demobilized from the Royal Air Force at the end of World War II. He borrowed money to buy 200 acres of arable farmland, but his ambition was to be more than a farmer. As soon as Home Farm was running he opened a factory in a converted barn. The first product was a pickle made to a traditional family recipe. It sold well, and success financed expansion. Two years later, John acquired derelict land next to the farm and the company moved into a larger, purpose-built factory…
Information systems: The current systems are a mixed set of applications, some dating back to the late 1960s, that run on diverse hardware platforms. An ageing mini-computer runs an inflexible suite of accounting programmes, a sales order processing system and a stock control system. The stock control system also generates product barcodes for the jar and bottle labels. The mini-computer is accessible from VT100 character-only terminals dotted throughout the factories and offices. Payroll is run off-site on a local computer bureau’s mainframe.Some managers and other staff have networked PCs with standard office software…
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