General Question 1. Store Customer Warehouse HQ Supplier Store Customer Warehouse HQ Supplier Mark the main flows of goods and money in the diagram (above) and employ a key or table of descriptive elements to explain your answer. 4 4 0 0 1, 3 1, 3 8, 11 8, 11 6, 12 6, 12 2 2 7 7 10 10 5 5 1. Customer enters store to buy sporting equipment 2. Store sells equipment to customer 3. Customer gives store money 4. Store sends money
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Nicole Wells MISM The Case Study Question Set: The following questions accompany the case and are both useful in helping the student think about WGD case study content and as a homework assignment due prior to an actual in-class discussion of the case. 1. Draw a system diagram showing the product and information flows between WGD and FastFit, starting with FastFit placement of an order through when it makes payment for goods received. This diagram will represent each company as a circle
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FastFit Case 1 1. Mark the main flows of goods and money in the diagram (above) and employ a key or table of descriptive elements to explain your answer. 1, 7 1, 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 Figure 1: Starting Point for a System Diagram of FastFit Business Information Flows 1. Customer goes to store in search of a fitness product. 2. Store informs HQ of items that are necessary 3. HQ orders items from their suppliers and pays the suppliers for these items 4. Suppliers
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you could wear to the North Pole if needed. WGD has over 400 customers, deals with about 45 different manufacturers and takes on average 100 orders a day. While their products are state of the art, their information systems are out of date. In this case we will explore the problems with the current systems and upgrade their old legacy systems into an integrated enterprise wide system that will improve growth and profitability which are their main business concerns. WGD has been in business for
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customers, deals with about forty-five (45) different manufacturers and processes an average of two hundred (200) orders a day. While their products are state of the art, their information systems are out of date. As part of the work on this business case, the reader will need to consider the upgrade or replacement of old WGD legacy systems by an integrated enterprise-wide system for both transacting and management control that will also improve the firm’s customer responsiveness, strengthen their bottom
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Winter Gear Distributors Case (v5) Questions 1. What is WGD’s business and what are their main business needs/drivers? WGD is a distributor that provides winter sports appeal and equipment to suppliers like FastFit. Their main business needs are profit, market capital, market share, operational excellence, and improved decision making 2. Draw a system diagram showing the processes and information flows (and product flow) between WGD and Fast-Fit starting when Fast-Fit places an order
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(a.k.a. enterprise information systems). Our first session in this sequence will consider the operations of a retail chain (FastFit Sporting Goods) and its wholesale supplier (WinterGear Distributors). We will next consider a global manufacturing concern and a major U.S. healthcare provider and their use of enterprise systems. Throughout, we will ask the same questions that are raised by our MIS Integrative Framework: * What is the business focus of the enterprise? * What are its information
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