information. IT as a productivity tool can be utilized to both increase the capability and decrease the cost at the same time. It has been widely accepted that firms can achieve competitive advantage by cost reduction or differentiation with the proper implementation of IT. Enabled by IT the logistics has become a source of competitive advantage for many firms. In four areas we are looking at the benefits and problems of using IT‚ which is: * Customer Service * Warehouse and Storage Management
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place at the time the consumer wants to buy it and by providing the mechanism for transferring ownership. Firms that do not perform the distribution function effectively usually fail. Distribution also provides employment opportunities. Salespeople‚ warehouse managers‚ truck drivers‚ stevedores‚ and forklift operators are all involved in distribution. Others service the products provided through a distribution network. Most people involved in distribution are classified as service personnel: Their role
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WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM By HEMANAND.R (Reg. No: 35203051) A PROJECT REPORT Submitted to the Department of Computer Applications in the FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS S.R.M. ENGINEERING COLLEGE S.R.M. INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Deemed University May‚ 2006 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Literature Survey The main objective of this project is to computerize the Warehouse
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WAREHOUSE ACTIVITIES a) The Warehouse Functions The warehouse are a vital part of industrial or business concern‚ public and private undertaking‚ etc‚ and it must be designed to suit the particular needs of the organization concern. There is therefore no standard system‚ which can be universally recommended or applied‚ but of course of time‚ certain principle and practices of more or less general applications have been evolved. The warehouses in most organization
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The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business increasingly has been viewed as a major cause of social‚ environmental‚ and economic problems. Companies are widely perceived to be prospering at the expense of the broader community. Even worse‚ the more business has begun to embrace corporate responsibility‚ the more it has been blamed for society’s failures. The legitimacy of business has fallen to levels not seen in recent history
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the overall corporate strategy. _____ 6. Productivity is a measure of how well a country‚ industry‚ or business unit is using its resources. _____ 7. To increase productivity‚ we want to make the ratio of inputs to outputs as large as practical. _____ 8. The statement: productivity is a relative measure‚ means that the productivity value in March is not meaningful by itself but is meaningful only if compared to February’s productivity value. _____ 9. The ratio of output to a single
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inventory process. Inventory Process Riordan Manufacturing‚ Inc. current process is a manual process which consumes most of an employee’s time and not financially stable. The process performs on manual entry at the end of each business day by the warehouse department. Each of the locations within the company operates independently of each other with no inner communication. Each department has its own inventory which could result in the possiblility of over purchasing of materials while another location
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able to react to their environment and make good business decisions. How could this happen when so many information technology products (software‚ hardware‚ ect...) are being sold as solution to business’s problems with the promise that increased productivity will quickly pay for such investments in IT? It is hard to believe that so many organizations are in this position‚ considering the vast amount of information technology products that are being sold as solutions to business’s problems. Companies
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OPRE 6370 Logistics and Distribution Assignment Two Sixue (Shawn) Du Question 1 When comparing performance during the first five months of 2010 with performance in 2009‚ which warehouse shows the most improvement? Answer After calculated all of the warehouse costs per unit of every city in 2009 and 2010 which showed on EXHIBIT 3-A and compared them‚ we found that St. Louis is the only one that shows any improvement‚ using cost per unit shipped as the performance criterion. The cost for the
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Self-Motivation in Improving Work Performance Gerald B. Handayan Mylene D. Tolentino April Faith S. Loayon Joy Lei L. Handayan INTRODUCTION It claims that self-motivation varies depends on age and gender whether what motivation they prefer‚ the intrinsic (self-fulfillment) and extrinsic motivation (reward and recognition). It is important to know what kind of motivation will apply to the employees to assess the management in getting out the best of their employees that will be beneficial
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