With the firm moving from batch processing the following groups will have some needs that will have to be addressed. Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Accounting, Spray Tan and Information Systems will all have areas of concerns that will be accrued because of this change. Information systems these locations may also incure less overhead because of the changes in the buisness model and process.
Marketing will be affected probably the least as far as actual processing. They will need to realign there campaigns to fit the new products and potentially new product lines. They may also incur a larger budget because of the decrease in overhead that will occur from the change over. Which when it comes to marketing, a lot of the time, the more money you have at your disposal the better.
The financing department will be affected in a number of ways. They will have to redo the way products are priced and the way purchase orders are collected with Graphics and design. This is because there will be a little difference in the way the products are billed. The will also notice and increase in margin because the overhead has diminished. With this margin increase we can than take the money aquired and spend it more on assets for future growth and help retain top talent.
Human resource will notice that the need for as many employees will no longer be efficient. The employees will either be moved to a new department or assigned a different task, or there may be a layoff situation. They will also need to look into any new insurance that will have to be implemented because of the new process, as well as the release of any policies that will become outdated.This will cause a great deal of overhead and headache in the short run, but in the long rum should pay off.
The accounting department will be involved in the realignment of search and the new process to a more cost efficient manner. They will need to develop a strategy that allows the new stream lined system to produce the most profit in the most efficient manner. Whether rhis is through a better marketing budget or allowing more computers to do the heavy lifting that humans once did.
The IT department may have one the more intuitive tasks. They will have to access what machines are currently being used, determine what they can keep and utilize and what needs to go. They will then need to purchase new machines to support the new system. The configuration for this could be long range depending of the complexity of the old system. but in the end this outcome should be best for all within the orginization.