Case Project C2 American Packaging Machinery
Help me with this case study from E-Business textbook by Gary Schneider.C2. American Packaging Machinery (Case Study)
American Packaging Machinery (APM) is a company that provides repair and maintenance
services to companies that operate large packaging systems. Packaging systems are arrangements
of machinery that place items in containers such as boxes or bags and apply plastic shrink wrap
to the containers. These machines must be adjusted regularly, and they have hundreds of parts
that cab wear out or fail. APM offers service contracts on most major packaging systems. A
typical service contract provides for an APM technician to make regular visits to the customer
site to perform preventative maintenance. The service contract also includes a certain number of
emergency repair visits per year. APM also sends technicians to perform repairs for companies
that do not have service contracts.
APM technicians are; paid by the hour, additional pay for overtime hours, time they work outside
of standard working hours, such as weekends and holidays.
APM technicians are members of a
labor union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which negotiates pay
and rates and working conditions for the technicians.
APM subtracts union dues from each
technician’s weekly paycheck and submits the total dues collected to the IBEW regional office.
The union contract currently provides that APM technicians are covered by a medical insurance
plan underwritten by the Prudential Trust Insurance Company. Although APM pays most of the
insurance premium, technicians do pay a part of the premium cost. This contribution to the
premium is withheld from their paychecks each week.
You are the director of electronic commerce for EPM and you report to Laura Adams, APM’s
CIO. Laura asks for your help in outlining a new automated system she wants to install, which
would use EDI and EFT to handle APM’s technicians payroll and related transactions. She has
provided the following narrative that described how the system will work:
1.
Technicians will record their time worked by entering the start and stop times for each job
into a program that runs on their handheld computers (the technicians already use these handheld
computers to look up wiring and mechanical diagrams for the machinery on which they work
and to receive their job assignments). The time worked information will be transmitted from the
handheld computer to APM’s Payroll Department.
2.
The payroll department will summarize the time worked information and send it to
supervisors’ desktop computers. Each supervisor will indicate an authorization for each
technician’s time worked, overtime, and holiday/weekend hours. That authorization will be
returned by the system each day to the Payroll Department.
3.
The Payroll Department will summarize the time worked information each week and
calculate gross pay, deductions, and net pay for each employee. The deductions include the
federal and state taxes that must be withheld by law, the contribution to the medical insurance
premium and the union dues that are withheld under the IBEW union contract.
4.
The payroll Department will send an electronic summary of the payroll information,
including deductions, to the Accounting Department, which will prepare payroll tax returns and
make the necessary entries in the APM accounting system to record payroll and te related tax
expenses.
5.
The payroll department will send electronic authorizations to APM’s bank to make the
necessary EFT’s to deposit: the amount each technicians net pay to the technician’s bank
account; the amount tax withheld to the account of the appropriate government agency; the
amount of local contributions to the medical insurance premium to the insurance company’s
account; and the amount of the union dues withheld to the IBEW’s account. Most of these
accounts are at other banks
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