Group Assignment : Post # 4

Logistics companies such as FedEx and UPS no longer merely carry goods from one place to another. Some of them also provide supply chain planning and management services to their customers and help them manage their supply chain information. Investigate the web site of FedEx OR UPS to see how these companies’ services may be used for supply chain management. Then, answer the following questions:

a) What supply chain processes can each of these companies support for their clients ?

b) How can customers use the Web sites of each company to help them with supply chain management ?

Labels: FedEx, logistics, supply chain management, UPS

Post # 2 Grid Report no. 1

This is the grid report to review the company North America business in 2005. Both Internet and reseller can be reviewed individually.

Post #1 Facebook - Virtual Gifts

Group Assignment : Post # 3

1. Try any one of these decision support systems and describe two examples of decisions which they may help to support. For each decision, describe whether the decision would be made by operational, middle or senior management levels :

Break-even Calculator
Online Customer Lifetime Value Calculator (from Harvard Business School)
Hong Kong Yellow Pages Online Map
HSBC Mortgage Planner
2. Next, try out the different modules within the OpenBravo ERP demo. After you've familiarized yourself with these tools, identify which module can be used to handle each step within the Order-to-Cash business process below:

Accept/Enter Order
Order Acknowledgement
Purchase Materials
Receive Materials
Production
Packing
Shipping
Invoicing and Collection
3. Which departments need to coordinate from start to finish of the Order-to-Cash business process ? Describe how the ERP software makes their work easier. Also explain why ERP software can serve as the foundation or platform for decision support systems.

Group Assignment: Post # 2

This week we learned how B.I. tools (business intelligence) allow businesses to get more value and insight out of their databases.

1.Visit the OLAP Service Online Demo and design three different grid reports using at least three dimensions per report. Each report must have at least one measure which is being analyzed along the chosen dimensions.
You may choose from any of the dimensions found along the left-hand side of the demo: Customer, Date, Employee, Delivery Date, Product, Reseller, Employee, etc.
You may choose from any of the measures under Internet Sales, Reseller Sales or Sales Summary (found along the left-hand side of the demo).

2.Post the following content on your blog regarding the grid reports you've designed:
A screen capture of a section of the report which shows the included dimensions and measure(s);
An explanation of the insights contained in the report and how these insights can be used by the company to understand their performance or make better decisions;

3.Describe the benefits of allowing users to query a data warehouse in the form of an OLAP cube through their Web browser.

Group Assignment Post # 1.

Find a specific example of how a company is using each method below:

Blog
Interactive advertisement
Search engine
Online partnerships or affiliate marketing
RSS feeds
Social networking
Gadgets

By the way, the examples you find do not all have to come from the same company.In your group blog, list all the examples you find, together with links to each example. Also provide a description of the effectiveness of each example.

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