Week 5- Weekly Reflection- Team C
Martez Blackmon, Rhonda Mayer, Stephen Ping & Danya Ramos
BIS/320
Professor Rubin
Throughout the weeks our team has recognized the effects and methods to managing the system development within our bookstore. It’s true that the bookstore has endured growing pains of ways to better secure their information as well as the sensitive information of their customers. Our team has analyzed better ways to conduct our business as well as the processing methods that will be improved to meet our needs. By examining our business process we had to identify the functions that were causing problems or raising cost, rising risks or basically wasting time.
This demand created an open opportunity to make our
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Inventory is the biggest investment of the business and the performance of the inventory can determine whether the store succeeds or fails. We have chosen a different supply strategy as a method to save on cost. This method will require our publishers to ship books directly to the store which will save on our shipping expenses.
Another implied method we will be using is a plan of Inventory management; this plan will help with overspending and keep a better track of organization within our supply and demand of items as well as an updated tracking system. By implying these methods our services will become more organized and more easily maintained. By looking ahead and surrounding our store with improved methods that will highlight our changing business environment, we hope to surpass our old obstacles such as a lack in our inventory management system and system security. These changes will in turn pave a more technical way that our store can function and be managed to best fit the needs of our customers. By advancing our systems and services will give long term affects and aid in meeting the needs of our business and by taking advantage of these changes will help our bookstore run more efficiently. Developing ways to configure maximum benefits is a top priority. This effort will not only expand our business to better avenues but raise our customer service to a new level of
Warehouse layouts were changed and its proprietary warehouse software adjusted to help forecast inventory demands The improved inventory model called for inventory to be managed as follows: (1) High demand inventory based on past sales and forecasts is retained at multiple distribution centers (2) Drop shipment where after searching Amazon’s inventory it searches inventory of manufacturer and wholesaler transferring the customer’s order to the wholesaler or manufacturer to complete the customer’s order (3) The third inventory mechanism is to allow vendors and retailers to offer products on Amazon’s website. One of the benefits of this inventory sourcing is that the customer is able to compare prices and make selection about price and delivery options after comparison. Additionally, in tapping into this three prong inventory system, the
Every method for transportation of materials required for the book distributing and for the advancement of powerful inventory network has its focal points and disadvantages yet whichever way might be utilized effectively, if the organization applies it appropriately and
This memo will discuss ways that technology can be used to improve this organization’s performance. Additionally, it will consider the optimal methods for expanding the business’s online presence to include online sales. This will include information on how to incorporate intelligent systems and security features to guarantee that customers’ interaction with the new system will be positive. This memo will also analyze this business’s current and anticipated technology and information systems and provide option for other technologies or information systems that will be beneficial for the company. In discussing these options, information will be included to show how the options will advance or improve the business and enhance our customers’ experience.
Corporate outreach is vital to an organization. Implementing one would give the company an edge to promote its culture, mission, and values to the community. An ethical company will also attract other businesses such as investors, potential employees, students and customers. When a manager chose not to participate in social responsibility for financial reasons, the establishment may stand alone. The leaders and workers may remain unknown to the community. It will be wise for a company to introduce itself the moment a foundation erected. It a stamp and a way to market without spending. Corporate outreach is giving back to the society. Moreover, such promote development and growth for both parties. The bottom line ethical decision help to
This simulation was a great glimpse into the future, with only some small modifications. Going through the chances of what my family would be for this experience, I was chosen to be divorced and without any kids. Not having to pay child support or for the regular expenses that come with having a kid was good but, it wasn’t realistic to what I personally want in life and in the simulation didn’t give me a better tax break or second source of income.
Goal: Provide technological features to achieve a more convenient and friendly service, suited to the customers and their needs.
The internet likes to poke fun at Google Translate sometimes but it's a popular service for a reason. Many users love the service for translating foreign web pages to their native tongue. Additionally, it can be used to have some fun as well but that's not the matter at hand today. Today, we discuss options.
The realistic simulation as a teaching methodology in health makes a significant contribution to the training of more skilled professionals, thereby producing technical, ethical and political expertise to face the health problems in which they are inserted. Accordingly, this study intends to unveil the viewpoint of the student after its learning on nursing by means of the realistic simulation. The methodology path was constructed based on the phenomenological qualitative research. The research scenario was a higher education institution in the city of Itapira, countryside of the state of São Paulo. We performed interviews with seven undergraduate nursing students enrolled in the aforementioned institution. Regarding the theoretical framework,
In my personal philosophy paper, I copied an earlier class note that stated, “ethics consultation is an embodied activity which requires moral imagination.” After taking this course and being able to be part of various simulations, I do take this statement to be true. With only a short role description in hand, I had to bring each person I played to life. I had to imagine what it feels like to be in another person’s shoes. However, one thing that I noticed that was difference between the simulations and the improvisation that we did in class was that in improvisation, there are no wrong answers, no wrong movements. In simulations, what I said did matter. Not only that, but body language mattered as well, especially when I became fully embodied
Simulation and video games share similarities in that they bring a participant into a simulated environment or fantasy world, which is typically presented on a video monitor, and where the user interacts with this world through the use of a keyboard, mouse, joystick, or some other type of game controller or input device. The typical distinction between a raw simulation versus a video “game” is that a game usually has goals that includes a win or lose aspect that the participant tries to achieve. These goals may be in the form of a higher score, a completion of successive levels that denote progress, and/or defeating an opponent directly. Even so, while a simulation might not be used to score points or “kill the bad guy”, the participant
We will like to invite you to our computer security conference in Beijing Jade Palace on February 13, 2013 at 9:00 am for 2 days. Microsoft Corporation has been our partner for many years and we are honored to invite to the event.
Barnes & Noble is a well-respected name among book publishers and sellers. Prior to 1992, Barnes & Noble was a private firm. It printed, dispersed, and sold books in 68 Barnes & Noble superstores, over seven hundred B. Dalton bookstores, and other smaller bookstore chains that it attained. In 1992, to raise capital CEO Leonard Riggio decided sell stock in Barnes & Noble in an initial public offering. He wanted to use the money acquired to increase growth, reduce debt and achieve the greatest s expansion program in the bookstore business” (Cox, 1992).
Inventory will no longer be held in storage before being delivered to the customer. Alibris purchases inventory as needed from a their third party. Once the order is purchased online from the seller, the order is directly shipped to the customer. To send their books to Sparks distribution center Alibris inquired costs and required customers to pay higher book prices.The direct shipping model eliminated the intermediary relationship between Alibris and book dealers, customers could now navigate through the website to identify each book seller and their rating of fulfillment. Customers were now able purchase more books at a lower prices which lead to an increase in sales volume. The design collaboration reduced cost, and decreased time of delivery.
Culture is an important criterion for organisations to determine their strategies of management and leadership. This essay aims to outline Hofstede’s cross-cultural framework, identify similarities and differences in comparison with the Chinese Value Survey (CVS) and discuss how differences in individualism-collectivism and long-term/short-term orientation among employees could affect management and leadership. The finding is that Hofstede’s framework and CVS differ from cultural background and respondents; oppositely, the countries researched and outcomes are similar, and parts of the contents are related. The essay also suggests that individualism-collectivism and long-term/short-term orientation would influence
Managing customer and supplier relationships is an important issue of handle supply chains. The concept of closely aligned relationship has been considered the basic needs of supply chain management. However, supply chain relationships, particularly those involve in product flows, reveals that the central of these relationships is inventory movement and storage. Most of the activity involved in managing relationships is based on the purchase, transfer, or management of inventory. Thus, inventory in supply chain plays a critical role because it is a salient focus of supply chains.