1) Current organizational structure
Wesfarmers Limited is listed company indulged in retail, chemical, fertilizer, coal mining as well as industrial safety products. The company is the largest company by revenues size in Australia. The company has been majorly present in retail store however it has recently started to shift to e-commerce. The organizational structure of the company is of two types. One for the division in the organization and other is one for the human resources of the organization. The company is divided into two divisions namely retail and industry & other businesses. Under the retail it has four organizations while under the industrial and other businesses.
The human resources structure of the company indicates hierarchy structure where there are directors, managing directors who are parallel in hierarchy. All the heads of all the divisions reports into the managing directors who in turn are reported by other team leads and managers in the organization (Wesfarmers, 2017).
2) Operational Problem that it could face on account of structure
There can be several issues that can come on account of such structure. Since there are so many divisions hence they all are going to have their own budgets and the own accounting department. There invoicing …show more content…
Since Wesfarmers is a multi-organizational company hence it needs to be first analyse the requirement of all the department and division. Once the requirements are finalized it needs to float an RFP or RFQ or RFI and let IT company to respond. Based on the RFP of the company software accounting firms will respond to it. Once the proposals come it can evaluate the proposals and can finalize few vendors. It can then ask for the vendors to come and give demo. After the demo two or three vendors can be selected. After the selection the pricing can be asked and based on the pricing and future capacity of expansion (HBR,
Wesfarmers Limited is listed company indulged in retail, chemical, fertilizer, coal mining as well as industrial safety products. The company is the largest company by revenues size in Australia. The company has been majorly present in retail store however it has recently started to shift to e-commerce. The organizational structure of the company is of two types. One for the division in the organization and other is one for the human resources of the organization. The company is divided into two divisions namely retail and industry & other businesses. Under the retail it has four organizations while under the industrial and other businesses.
The human resources structure of the company indicates hierarchy structure where there are directors, managing directors who are parallel in hierarchy. All the heads of all the divisions reports into the managing directors who in turn are reported by other team leads and managers in the organization (Wesfarmers, 2017).
2) Operational Problem that it could face on account of structure
There can be several issues that can come on account of such structure. Since there are so many divisions hence they all are going to have their own budgets and the own accounting department. There invoicing …show more content…
Since Wesfarmers is a multi-organizational company hence it needs to be first analyse the requirement of all the department and division. Once the requirements are finalized it needs to float an RFP or RFQ or RFI and let IT company to respond. Based on the RFP of the company software accounting firms will respond to it. Once the proposals come it can evaluate the proposals and can finalize few vendors. It can then ask for the vendors to come and give demo. After the demo two or three vendors can be selected. After the selection the pricing can be asked and based on the pricing and future capacity of expansion (HBR,