...organization uses to be safe. Information technology has become a vital and integral part of organization today. Multinational Corporation maintains mainstream mainframe systems to small businesses that hold single computer in role play ("Information Technology & Its Role of Modern Organization", 2012). Information system managements empower organization to perpetually store and receive data. The system is use to for storing product and customer information for businesses. System varies by the size of the organization. These systems make life easier, organization moves at a faster pace, and makes business are more structured. Types of systems are customer information system, product information system, and employee information system. Customer information system is imperative to organization keeping track of customer is vital to organization success. Company stores customer information for marketing purposes email addresses, mailing addresses, and phone numbers to inform customer of a new product line. Organization keep track of customer spending and knows what target market spends the most money. Customer database is unnecessary for small business, most small businesses keep track on order-by-order basis (Types of Information Systems in a Business Organization, 2012). Product information system is significant to organization for...
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...hedging strategies and capitalize on market opportunities. ii. Organization Atlas Financial is your typical hierarchical organization in that it has a chief executive officer, other executive officers, a board of directors, and other managers down the line. iii. Revenues Atlas Financial reported $2.9 billion in total gross revenue for the 2009 calendar year. iv. Expenses In 2009, Atlas Financial reported total expenses of $1.26 billion. Of that $1.26 billion, $1.23 million was spent on communication and technology. These expenses were incurred to purchase, lease, use and maintain the technology-related hardware, software and communication systems used to operate the business. They also include expenses incurred to make network and data connections to market platforms, clients or other clearing agents, fees paid for...
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...business environment. Due to slow economy, growth has been stagnant. John, the president of the company, would like to see growth at 5% per year. He would also like to see expenses cut by 5% to help fund new initiatives. Current revenue is about $39 million a year with profit running at 4%. 2. Business Strategic Objectives- A. Provide warehousing services for customers who want to reduce delivery time to their customers by having product available locally. a. Make sure local distribution is available for customers B. Improve the percent of loaded mile in their fleet to reduce costs by coordinating the pickup and delivery of freight at the same time in the same geographic area b. Increase delivery time c. Increase shipments into and out of the terminals as quickly as possible C. Track the whereabouts of freight both in the terminals and on the trucks to provide customers with accurate delivery dates and times. d. Decreased time of grouping shipments e. Eliminate the challenge for pickups f. Aware of space availability on the trucks D. Track the number of hours per day for each driver (or max per week, etc.) to be compliant...
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...Recommendations 8 6.1. System/Software design 8 6.1.1. Final Functional Specification (use case and activity diagrams) 8 6.1.2. Final Sequence Diagrams 8 6.1.3. Final E-R Diagram 9 6.1.3.1. Final SQL Table definitions View/Report based on SQL queries 9 6.1.3.2. Class Diagram 9 1. Executive Summary Mary and Howard have started a small family based retail store chain with three stores chain, Evergreen Recreations in 1952. Currently their son Mike together with his wife Genie manages the three stores located at ABRA, BABRA, and CABRA cities spread over 60 miles periphery. They manage the whole family business using the old-fashioned paper-and-pencil based system for sales and inventory, like their parents. They have started feeling limitation while managing the three stores using an age old system to keep their records. Mike and Genie approached Infinity group, a highly reputed Information system design firm with an objective to build them a Modern Information system for their stores. Some of the items that were there in Mike’s and Genie’s must-have list is, to have a software system which can single handily help them with their customers, products, vendors as well as their employees. They also want an inbuilt rewards program through which they can collect data on their sales and explore meaningful information out of it. After fully evaluating their problems and needs, Infinity group proposed to create Evergreen 360TM system. It is a fully integrated...
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...Project Scope The scope of the FSP project includes all: * Hardware * Software * Infrastructure * Network Components * Documentation * Training Frequent Shopper Project Stakeholders The Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide®) expands this definition to include anyone who, “… is actively involved in the project, or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project.” A logical first step to identifying project stakeholders is to look at possible stakeholder groups. In general, these can be sorted into three levels: Level 1 - Stakeholders within the project organization: Senior Management, Sponsor, Customer, Users The level one stakeholder defines the need and requirements for the project, and controls the traditional project constraints of cost, time, and scope (the “triple constraints”). This includes the organization senior management, the sponsor, and possibly others who, by their position, may influence the project. Senior managers approve and contribute resources to the project, and/or may be users of the outcome of the project. It is in effect senior management’s project, and they define the product to be produced. Level 2 - Stakeholders within the project: Project Manager, Core Team Members, Vendors and Suppliers, Support Staff At the second level are the project manager and team, and any others operating within the project’s...
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...Information Systems Proposal Diana Kobiel BIS/220 Information Systems Proposal In order to start our nostalgic record store off on the right foot, we need to consider purchasing information technology for the business. Information technology will help us track our inventory, payroll, sales, accept credit cards and keep track of customers. There are at least five different types of information systems we need to consider. These five systems are as follows (Rainer Jr. & Cegielski, 2011): 1. Transaction processing system-a point of sale terminal that checks out customers in an automated fashion. 2. Functional area IS-for human resources, this will allow us to automate the payroll process, keep track of employee time and employee information such as hire date, tax rates etc. 3. Management information system-for inventory, this will allow us to track inventory from purchasing to sale, including information on purchase price, sale price and profit margin. 4. E-commerce system-this will allow us to put our store on the web and market and sell our product electronically. 5. Enterprise resource planning-this will integrate all the functional areas of our business into one database. All of these information systems have their benefits and drawbacks. I think the five systems listed above will work well for our company. Our company will be customer oriented and inventory driven. This is why I think we need a point of sale system. A point of sale system will allow...
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...Information Systems Proposal Daniel Metzgar BIS220 June 20, 2011 Bud Stinson TABLE OF CONTENTS Title 1 Table of Contents 2 Abstract 3 Data Information Systems 3 Introduction 3 Executive Dashboard ______________________________________________________________ 3 Transaction Processing System ______________________________________________________ 4 Office Automation System _________________________________________________________ 4 Image 1.1 _______________________________________________________________________ 3 Table 1.1 5 Summary of Findings 5 References 7 Abstract Information systems is a vital part of a business plan. The key is to find the right information for our company. The three informaton systems we will discuss are the Executive Dashboard, Transaction Processing Systems and Office Automation Systems. Each of these systems have a distinct purpose and some are better suited for our needs than others. An executive dashboard can help us determine how sales are doing for our company. A transaction processing system will allow us to complete sales for our customers in a more efficient manner. An office automation system can be used to create any reports we may need to track finances and create invoices for our customers. The information here will help determine which is best suited...
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...Case summary: UPS has created its own information system with Delivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD) and Web-based Post-Sales Order Management System (OMS) globally by using developed information technology. These special systems help the company to reduce the cost of transaction greatly. By building its efficient order information management system, UPS can make optimal routing strategy, place orders online, and track shipments to meet customer needs. These information systems guarantee the possibility of two-day delivery nationwide as well as lower warehousing and inventory costs for the company. Questions: 1. What are the inputs, processing and outputs of UPS’s package tracking system? Inputs: the inputs include package information, customer signatures, pickups, delivery and timecard information, and locations on each route. Processing: in the process of transactions, the data is transmitted to the information center and stored for retrieval. During the whole process, the data of shipped packages is available to be checked by drivers and tracked by customers. Outputs: mostly the same data as the inputs, including pickups, delivery times, locations of routes and package recipients. In addition, the outputs also include calculations of shipping rates to enable UPS customers to embed UPS functions, such as cost calculations, to their own websites. 2. What technologies are used by UPS? How are these technologies related to UPS’s business strategy? Technologies include...
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...Riordan Raw Material and Final Product ERP System Gerald Anderson, Henry Perkins, Kenneth Nelson CIS\207 May 18, 2015 Pat Sullivan Riordan Raw Material and Final Product ERP System It has been requested by Riordan to create an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to track raw materials and finished products across all their plants. Riordan has previously implemented a standard set of procedures to ensure each plant is managing the resources and products inventories appropriately. Currently their raw materials and finished products are manually entered by an inventory clerk into systems at each plant. The new ERP would integrate with the current inventory systems or replace the current inventory systems to provide a global view of resources and finished products. This would allow Riordan to have a global view of resources and product completion without manually requesting information from each individual plant. If a system replacement is selected, it should provide the ability to enter resources, sub assembly products, final products, customer orders and billing information. Whether integration or a replacement solution is selected, it would need to provide the ability to produce analytical reports to assist Riordan with raw material usage, final product completion and sales analysis. To accomplish these needs, the system will need to have the ability to tie raw materials to products and sales. This will require each system to have a key unique element to accomplish...
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...The system will keep track of important customer information that will help improve Kudler’s customer relations, store locations, inventory, employees, supply orders, and items prices. Kudler fin foods will keep records such as customer names, address, email address, credit card, birthdays, and purchases. Keeping information like birthdays and anniversaries will allow Riordan to send certain promotions and coupons to customer around the special days in their lives. Keeping track of purchases will make returns easy for people who lose their receipt or want to make a return to a different store location. The store will know what payment method was use for each purchase and what items were bought from each location also. Each store will be identified by a store number. The store number will let each store know the store’s address, number, and manager’s name. The system will track ever sold and returned item. This will minimize having too much of certain items and not enough of others. Kudler will be able to easily know what items are popular for each location. Keeping track of supplies ordered and when to order them will go through the system. The system will track everything with bar codes. Bar codes will identify each item and their prices. Every item that has warranties will be in the system. All employees will have an employee number that will give them certain permission according to their job. The employee number will also keep track of each employee’s hours, pay rate...
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...---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honor Pledge This exam is my own work. I received no assistance from any other individual, commercial entity, or unauthorized source. Suspected violations of the academic integrity policy of the University of Maryland University College will be processed in accordance to the Procedures for Handling Charges of Alleged Academic Dishonesty outlined in Policy 150.25 - Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism (http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml). In typing my name following the word 'Signature', I intend that this certification will have the same authority and authenticity as a document executed with my hand-written signature. ITEC 630- Information Systems Analysis, Modeling, and Design This is an open-book, individual examination. You are only allowed to use your textbook and information posted in our classroom. Please do not use any other sources that are not listed in our classroom. For example, you can refer to our class discussion notes and all links posted in the lecture notes but you should not search the Web for information to solve exam questions. You must do your own work and you may not collaborate with your classmates. Answer the questions succinctly and clearly, explain your answer, and show your work. Answers, even if right but without an explanation, will get no credit. The explanations need to be brief, but complete, logical, and to the point. Do not quote anybody else...
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...enhanced information management by tracking customer-purchasing trends. This request is in an effort to boost revenue, increase loyalty, and maximize profitability of KFF’s consumers. Providing a loyalty points system to offer incentives for customer loyalty can be an effective way to collect valuable customer data including future purchasing needs Scope The scope of the project itself will include developing methods to track and analyze customer purchases, collect customer information, reward customers for their loyalty to Kudler, as well as determine a process to base inventory decisions on customer purchase data. These types of systems are very common in most grocery store chains around the world offering discounts on in store products, however KFF is determined to cater to the demographic of their shoppers by taking this program a step further. The system specific to KFF needs, includes a reward points system designed to provide the customer exclusive offers on both in store products and with third party partners. This system will be designed to store customer data while providing reward points to be used for purchases both in-store and with third party partners. Reward points will be redeemable for fine foods, first class airline upgrades, high end gifts, and other items and bonuses of that nature. Points will be rewarded in increments based on money spent on purchases within the store in which the customer provides a reward card or number to reference...
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...POS (Point-of-Sale) System Kenyatta O'Neal CIS/207 December 8, 2013 Karen Miles POS (Point-of-Sale) System The POS system or Point-of-Sales was initially started in 1879, when James Ritty came up with the idea of a cash register that records the daily sales to address the issue of dishonest employees who frequently pocketed money from the customer instead of depositing it. Plenty of enhancements were made over the years to the cash registers until the early 1970s. This was the year the first computer driven cash registers were displayed. They were basically a mainframe computer packaged as a store controller that could control certain registers. At this point peer-to-peer communication, Local Area Network (LAN) backups, remote initialization, and utilize client-server technology was used. Retail software based on PC technology was mainstream in the retail business by the late 1980s. An integrated POS system of today allows retailers to operate every outlet of their business, because they are faster, more secure, and more reliable than their predecessors. These POS systems can help reduce paperwork, track inventory, and market to the customers through one easy to use process. Information is contained in one database, making it easy to search for any portion of information and connect it to others through reports and it also makes more time for business owners to manage their businesses rather than being tied up with details. POS systems are designed to minimize the time...
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...Dell Computers running Windows XP. We have about thirty computers in the warehouse and offices. We use Telzall scanning devices to scan and keep track of all merchandise in the warehouse. Without the proper hardware and software tools, the job of keeping track of tens of thousands of products would be a much more time consuming, and need many more employees to accomplish correctly . Hardware and Software The software we use here at D & G Inc. is the most important part of smooth operations. The software we use was created for us at D & G Inc. The system is called SMART it connects all of our databases together. The SMART system makes easy access to any database through, one of the dell computers or through the handheld Telzall scanners. The SMART system runs the time clocks to keep track of all employee hours. First you scan in your ID badge in to the time clock provided on the wall next to all exits. Once you are scanned in to the SMART system you are allowed to log in to the database and access information you need to preform your job duties. The sales department uses the Dell computers to access the internet to receive emails from the online stores of what products have been ordered then interred into the customer database and the invoice sales database . That is where we keep track of all online store invoices and customer information like name ,address, phone...
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...send or receive E-mails, listen to music, play games, take pictures, etc. The functions of today’s smart-phone are unbelievable and amazing that almost everyone use smart-phones because of the convenience. People can also use smart-phone as basic camera, video and music player which invisibly saved people’s money. In addition, the true value of smart-phones is more than these. There are two most popular operating system using in smart-phones which are Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Based on these two major operating system, customers could download and run thousands of applications on their smart-phones. Apple, for example, added software to its products as extra value to make profit from customers. “Users spent $10 billion last year in the App Store, with $1 billion coming in December alone.” (Brustein, J, 2014). Customers are willing to pay the applications on App Store; however, they have no idea that the company is tracking their locations, habits, and friends. Allegation of Fact Apple has a big database to collect big data from all of its customers. When customers run an application, the tracking technology hiding in the software can automatically detect their whereabouts back to the Apple’s database though the Internet. The official statement of Apple and Google is that...
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