International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology. ISSN 0974-3154, Volume 13, Number 11 (2020), pp. 3927-3933 © International Research Publication House. https://dx.doi.org/10.37624/IJERT/13.11.2020.3927-3933 3927 Business Architecture Model in Strategic Information System Management for Effective Railway Supply Chain Perspective Mailasan Jayakrishnan 1 , Abdul Karim Mohamad 1 , Mokhtar Mohd Yusof 2 1 Centre for Advanced Computing Technology, Faculty of Information & Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100, Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia 2 Faculty of Computer and Information Technology, Al-Madinah International University, Pusat Perdagangan Salak 2, No.18, Jalan 2/125e, Taman Desa Petaling, 57100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1 ORCID: 0000-0002-7807-1621 (M. Jayakrishnan ) Abstract Industry environments are increasingly complex and dynamic. Across the globe, strategic Information System (IS) management transformation is taking place. It is cutting across several sectors, organizations, processes, and industries. Continuous improvement in industry performance needs a Business Architecture (BA) model as a strategic imperative in their performance. BA underpins the usage of normalized management policy relevant to the turn of events and the use of IS and different assets. Once the BA instrument has been mapped with all the other rating and ranking systems, we will evaluate and propose an improved Railway Supply Chain (RSC) indicator. A draft of criteria, sub-criteria, and indicators will be developed based on the current need of the Railway Industry (RI). Strategic IS management may uphold the choices individuals make in each progression of a cycle that analyzes the sources of info, the time, and the yields for each progression of the cycle and helps distinguish the process bottlenecks. Therefore, we need a dynamic RSC perspective that posits a key enabler to the national agenda by developing an RSC model in BA. By giving a comprehensive, various leveled perspective on current and future assets RSC model in BA will support key arranging and other operational asset arranging measures by giving large-scale and miniature perspectives on how assets are to be utilized in achieving the objectives of the RI. Thus, we need to initiate the layout methodologies and an activity that intends to additionally build up the Malaysia RSC strategized decision-making process. Keywords: Business Architecture, Information System, Supply Chain, Strategic Model, Railway Industry I. INTRODUCTION There exist several challenges or at least concerns, regarding the nature of what future architecture alignment is and what it may realistically be expected to achieve and do for the contemporary industry today. The future architecture model needed to be modified Business Architecture (BA) components that emphasize on existing execution hole or backing another vital activity, operational necessity, and innovation arrangement. The future architecture is driven at both the key and strategic levels in three perspectives as (1) new direction and objectives, (2) changing business needs, and (3) rising advancements. The future architecture should emphasis on systems approached to rehearse. Tending to complex issues or openings utilizing strategies, devices, structures, and practice designs for the industry decision-making process [1]. The future architecture should cover arranged changes to BA segments in the close to term, just as changes to vital, IS parts that are resulted in the usage of long-haul working situations. BA facilitates gap analysis to understand why certain plans operate more efficiently than others [2]. Measuring the industry impact of BA can be difficult as performance improvements are attributable to factors beyond BA. There is an agreement among researchers and industry experts that the business domain and IS domain arrangement are essential to industry execution and the accomplishment of the upper hand [3]. The integration between business and IS needed to focus on hard and soft methods. The hard methods are fit to taking care of all around characterized issues with dependable information, clear optimization objectives, and realistic function. The soft methods are fit for organizing issues including deficient information, indistinct objectives, and complexity contents. Therefore, we need to choose the appropriate mix of hard and soft methods for heuristics industry performance evaluation. Over the years, there had been a developing worry of BA developments among Railway Supply Chain (RSC) [4]. There have a needs to recognize the status level of BA selection and use as valuable data and direction to related bodies for growing further procedures [5]. Early recognizable proof and advancement of BA is the way to limiting its negative impacts and to getting the RSC destined for success [6]. Besides, the early improvement of BA in RSC is a significant key to decreasing complex working models later on [2], [7]. The RSC indicators are an important element to encourage BA adoption and further contributed to usage. A good BA will portray the association both as it is today and as it is imagined later and will plan the different perspectives speaking to the design [8]. These perspectives incorporate both industry- situated points of view just as a specialized viewpoint [9]. In Canada, various degrees of RSC use BA to give structural surveys of key pointers and to organize the recognizable proof of new and basic parts and administrations inside the legislature [10]. Thus, BA similar to the conventional design in building development is a holistic body of information of the RSC indicators of a BA and their relationships [11]. The expanding of future architecture in the industry should focus on applying lean thinking in the transition to lean roadmap, enterprise transformation in knowledge exchange events, and BA action leadership in the IS context. Even though the context to which information ecology is applied differ, all the domain aim at effective implementation of strategize industry performance.