Case Study

Company Overview

Sepulcher, Inc. is a worldwide logistics supplier that offers completely coordinated cargo and production network administrations through oversaw warehousing and residential and global cargo sending. Administrations range from way to-entryway local and global conveyance administrations to aggregate inventory network administration. With branches over the United States and Europe and accomplices around the world, Catacomb keeps on extending, and it has encountered fast development through acquisitions.

Note: The term inventory network alludes to every one of the components required in bringing an association's items from the crude merchandise stage to the client.

The Association for Operations Management (APICS) word reference ((http://www.apics.org/Resources/APICSDictionary.htm) characterizes "inventory network administration (SCM)" as the configuration, arranging, execution, control, and observing of production network exercises with the goal of making net quality, assembling a focused base, utilizing overall logistics, synchronizing supply with interest and measuring execution all inclusive.

The Business Challenge

Tomb is contending in a situation where cargo transport is as much about keeping clients educated as it is about on-time conveyance. The organization has received online innovations for following cargo, separating its administrations, keeping clients educated, and guaranteeing the on-time conveyance that is Catacomb's trademark. Thus, Catacomb appreciates an abnormal state of consumer loyalty.

Its versatile workforce has quickly expanded, with drivers utilizing PDAs to output transfers, which are then matched up continuously by means of GPRS connections to central command applications that track the dispatches. Clients utilize Catacomb's web administrations to see the advancement of requests, from dispatch to warehousing to conclusive conveyance. Clients likewise utilize Catacomb's electronic frameworks to make cargo documentation and produce reports. With the EDI interface, solicitations and installments are exchanged straightforwardly between the clients' frameworks and Catacomb, sparing both time and cash.

As the organization has extended, the information streaming in the framework have expanded also. Presently, with more than 5,000 representatives and a large number of clients around the world, Catacomb is experiencing the impacts of dangerous development. Requests on its wide territory system (WAN) are surpassing limit. The principle server farm has encountered a few system blackouts and unscheduled downtime. The maturing ISDN phone framework is coming up short, as the organization has maintained a strategic distance from the unreasonable overhauls important to keep it working at ideal execution. Phone bills have expanded all of a sudden, and the voice message framework is over-burden.

The Opportunity

Sepulcher needs to give expanded transfer speed between each of the 47 of its US workplaces and the principle server farm. There are five (5) metropolitan ranges that have four (4) to eight (8) Catacomb areas that need to arrange among themselves: Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, and San Diego. The organization wants a dependable and secure system to suit its arranged development and in addition the unforeseen.

The organization does not have any desire to spend any more on telephone utilities than it does today, and its objective is to redesign the administrations while shielding against heightening expenses from its ISDN administration supplier.

Proficiency and efficiency objectives for this quickly developing organization are of fundamental significance, and there is a yearning to give capacities and administrations that fuse innovation answers for enhance in those territories and also hold the abnormal state of consumer loyalty. Mausoleum is likewise keen on diminishing go between its locales by executing video conferencing.

Also, Catacomb needs to have the capacity to screen and oversee information and voice benefits, and guarantee that limit and utilization is suitable to its business needs.

The Deliverable

Using this case study, you are to identify a minimum of five (5) requirements, analyze them, and offer a proposal that provides Catacomb with a converged network solution and explains how the components of the solution, and the solution as a whole, meet the identified requirements. The proposed solution must address each of the requirements identified. At least one (1) diagram must be incorporated to illustrate your proposed solution. You should do some research to address the cost issues and defend the proposed solution from a cost-benefit perspective. This is to be a general analysis of the benefits versus the cost of a converged network, not a full cost-benefit analysis with cost data.

Your deliverable will be a 10 page MS Word document. The page count includes the diagram(s), but does not count the cover page and references page. At least five (5) external sources (other than the assigned readings and other course materials) must be used, and citations and references must be in APA format. Your paper will be scored according to the Scoring Rubric below.  The bolded attributes in the Scoring Rubric must be used as section headings in the paper. Be sure you have incorporated all required aspects of the assignment.