SRI SRI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES 2013-15 A FIELD REPORT ON MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS OF Submitted by: Group 7 Sameera Tamvada Aveek Raichoudhuri ABSTRACT Management information Systems (MIS)‚ sometimes referred to as Information Management and Systems‚ are the discipline covering the application of people‚ technologies‚ and procedures — collectively called information systems — to solving business problems
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Geng Wang Case ABCs of Spend Analysis Why are data analysis skills and thinking so important to spend analysis? Can’t software applications be used to generate the information needed automatically? Data analysis skill is important to decision making. We cannot understand why the company isn’t doing well but keeps very high productivity without data – perhaps the total cost for operating the robots are too high‚ perhaps the number of workers is too big‚ perhaps the demand for the products
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CHAPTER 4: FLOW TIME ANALYSIS 4.3 Solutions to the Problem Set Problem 4.1 [a] Draw a process flow diagram. [b]. The theoretical flow time is 36 minutes: There are three paths through the system: A: Take Order – Food – Deliver – Bill → 4 + 18 + 12 + 2 = 36 mins B: Take Order – Wine – Deliver – Bill → 4 + 4.8 + 12 + 2 = 22.8 mins C: Take Order – Cart – Deliver – Bill → 4 + 10 + 12 + 2 = 28 mins Path A is critical so the TFT is 36 minutes [c]. The flow time efficiency is 36/60
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Mrs. Fields Cookies is a small company selling freshly baked goods through privately owned specialty stores (each store sells only Mrs. Fields products). The company has about 8‚000 employees worldwide and less than 150 information systems people for a unique leverage of MIS resources. The company uses information systems extensively in its processing‚ communications‚ and other management functions‚ including operations of the stores and hiring sales employees. 1. Would you describe Mrs. Fields’
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Zann Johnson Mrs. Fields’ Cookies Case 1. Would you describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as more of a functional hierarchy structured along traditional functional lines or more of an IT-enabled network consisting of tailored business processes? I believe that Mrs. Fields’ Cookies started out as traditional‚ but evolved into an IT-enabled networked that consisted of tailored business processes. Randy definitely had a vision for the company and made sure that what we desired came to life. It also allowed
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SystemX Inc. Withdraws Rs. 1 Billion SoftGuide Acquisition offer the following is an excerpt from a news article in the Daily Update‚ March 07‚ 2010 “SystemX Inc.‚ called off its acquisition of SoftGuide Knowledge Consultants‚ Friday‚ saying that 1 Billion was too high a price.” (SoftGuide has a considerable market share in Training and development services and would therefore help SystemX to diversify and expand its range of services to customers.) “Although SystemX officials would not comment
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1. What are the inputs‚ processing‚ and outputs of UPS’s packaging tracking system? According to the ppt on D2L‚ input is “Captures raw data from organization or external environment”. Based on this definition‚ in UPS packaging tracking system‚ inputs are the detailed information about the senders‚ the destination‚ and when the package should arrive. All of the information is saved in the scannable bar-code label which is attached on a package. Also‚ when a package arrive a UPS milestone station
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Mrs. Fields’ Cookies 1. Would you describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as more of a functional hierarchy structured along traditional functional lines or more of an IT-enabled network consisting of tailored business processes? I would describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as more of an IT-enabled network. In the text it says the Fields’ believed that the less hierarchy the better and they acted upon that. There weren’t a lot of employees who had to answer to different managers. They kept it pretty simple
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Kristen’s Cookie Company Key Questions 1) Washing & Mixing | 6 min | Dishing Up | 2 min | Setting the oven | 1 min | Baking | 9 min | Cooling | 5 min | Packing | 2 min | Accept Payment | 1 min | Total | 26 min | 2) The oven holds only one tray (one dozen of cookies) => at full utilization we can cook only 6 dozen of cookies per hour‚ for example after washing and mixing we have two more minutes to wait before oven will free. 26 + 10(x-1)=240 X=22.4 22 orders
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Mrs. Fields’ Cookies – Case Analysis. Mrs. Fields’ Cookies is a case that was initially created in 1989 and revised in 1993. Even though it is nearly two decades old it contains a lot of educational value by providing look into an international company that has grown from just one small store to a huge organization with over 500 stores in 25 United States‚ and five countries on four continents. The company was created by Debbi Fields who opened her first store in Palo Alto‚ CA and grew her business
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