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Swensen Restaurant Case Study

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Enterprise Information Systems
Year 1 (2014/15), Semester 2

SCHOOL OF INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGY
Diploma in FI and IT

Assignment

STUDENT’S PARTICULARS

Student No. Student Name Tutorial Group

Contents
SCHOOL OF INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGY 1
1. Basic information 3
2. 3 Major Processes in company 5
2.1. Customer order fulfilment 5
2.2. Stock Procurement 8
2.3. Online cake Delivery 11
3. Information Systems 14
3.1 Customer Relationship Management 14
3.2 Decision Support and Expert Systems 15
3.3 Geographic Information System 16
3.4 Supply Chain Management Systems 18
3.5 E-Commerce System 19
References: 21

1. Basic information

Swensen’ restaurant was started in 1948 by Earl Swensen, who learned how to make ice cream …show more content…

In 1970s Swensen sold the rights to William Meyers and investors, but retained rights in San Francisco and continued to operate in his initial store till 1994. The founder of Swensen’s, Earle Swensen died at the age of 83 in 1995. By 1980s they have expanded to over 400 stores under new leadership. In 1990, the amount companies shrunk by half and started to expand again, mostly in Asia. Today the company is owned by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada. Up to date, there are 300 franchise outlets in the world, mainly in Asia. Some of this countries include United States, the Middle East, India, and Taiwan and so on and so …show more content…

The Customer Relationship Management, also known as CRM is an information system that deals with maintaining the company’s relationship with its customers always constant maintaining that friendly relation with its customers.

CRM to an F&B trade is extremely important as it helps to draw in customers as well as maintain their old ones. As a result, the CRM will help grow the market and the business of F&B. The CRM is an extremely important IS to Swensen’s or to any other trades.

The CRM systems are designed to support marketing, sales and Customer service. The CRM systems capture the entire customer experience with an organization. The CRM Systems include of market research, targeted marketing, customer service, salesforce automation and other CRM

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