AACS4794 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Case Studies Case Study 1: A Giant Step for Mattress Giant (May 2007) Mattress Giant is one of America’s largest bedding retailers‚ with 240 stores in 14 states. For years‚ the company spent more than $20 million (about RM70 million) annually‚ about 10 percent of its revenue‚ advertising to people in their mid-30s‚ whose household income was $30‚000 - $40‚000 (about RM105‚000 - RM140‚000) per year .and who drove domestic car. As it
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the challenges in the implementation of ERP system! Information systems play a vital role in improving the competitiveness of a company. There are many types of enterprise information software packages which are available in the market since the year of 90s till today (Mandal & Gunasekaran‚ 2003). Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of them. Due to intense competition around the world‚ many of the manufacturing company had decided to implement ERP. It assures one application‚ one database
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chapter I FOUNDATIONS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS The 2004 Athens Olympics Network: Faster‚ Stronger - and Redundant Lufthansa:Taking Mobile Computing to the Skies While Keeping the Mobile Workforce Connected Aviall Inc.: From Failure to Success with Information Technology Continental Airlines:This Callis Being Monitored chapter 2 COMPETING WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GE‚Dell‚ Intel‚and Others:The Competitive Advantage of InformationTechnology The U.S.Department of Commerce:
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for leading the people side of change to achieve a desired outcome”. (www.prosci.com/change-management/definition/) The Change management practice plays an effective role especially in ERP role out strategies implemented by many companies. The report mainly discuss on the Process of Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP‚ manufacturing module implementation at ALUMEX group which was one of the main change management practices introduced by the company. Company Background: ALUMEX is a fully integrated
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| Upgrading Your ELT | Upgrading from the 121.5 MHz Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) to the 406 MHz ELT | | | Alford Duncan | Embry Riddle Aeronautical University | The purpose of this document it to provide a brief history of ELTs‚ the satellite system that monitors ELT deployment‚ a summary of how the ELT works‚ and how it’s installed. I will also attempt to show the benefits of upgrading your existing 121.5 MHz Emergency Locator Transmitter to the newer and more efficient
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Case Study 7.1.: ERP Helps Productivity at Northern Digital Inc. Question: 1. For a small company like NDI‚ why is an ERP better than SCM applications? Answer: ERP supports internal supply chain within an enterprise‚ while SCM applications support just certain part of internal supply chain. Therefore‚ for small companies like NDI‚ it’s more efficient and effective to implement one system‚ namely ERP‚ instead of more SCM systems. Further‚ ERP software support several functionalities for supply
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Critical factors for successful ERP implementation: Exploratory findings from four case studies Jaideep Motwani a‚*‚ Ram Subramanian a‚ Pradeep Gopalakrishna b a Seidman School of Business‚ Grand Valley State University‚ Department of Management‚ 401 West Fulton‚ Grand Rapids‚ MI 49504‚ USA b Department of Marketing and International Business‚ Lubin School of Business‚ Pace University‚ New York‚ NY 10038‚ USA Received 29 March 2004; received in revised form 14 December 2004; accepted 13 February
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 ERP Implementation Process 3 Implementation Obstacles 8 Implementation Success Level Analysis 9 Suggestions for Improvement 10 Conclusion 10 References 12 Appendix 14 Introduction To be successful in today’s competitive and continuous evolving information technology (IT) market companies must be able to utilise their skills‚ information and knowledge to the highest efficiency level possible. Utilisation of and control
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ERP CASE STUDY ON SONY CORPORATION HISTORY OF SONY * Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka started ‘Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering’ on May 7‚ 1946 with its headquartered in Minato‚ Tokyo Japan. * The company produced the Japanese first tape recorder in 1950. * In 1952‚ Ibuka traveled to United States and heard about Bell Laboratory invention of the transistor. He convinced Bell to license the transistor technology to his Japanese company. While most American companies were researching
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Management Information Systems 13e KENNETH C. LAUDON AND JANE P. LAUDON CHAPTER 12 ENHANCING DECISION MAKING FreshDirect Uses Business Intelligence to Manage its Online Grocery CASE 1 VIDEO CASE Systems SUMMARY FreshDirect is the largest online grocery firm in the New York market‚ and one of the largest in the country. With more than 250‚000 customers ordering over 8‚500 products every day‚ the company faced severe logistics and management decision making issues
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