Business Process For A Small Company

The company instead needs to change to a first in First out approach to keep inventory moving on shelves and develop a new enterprise resource system (Phillips, 2008). In addition to this change which would directly affect the floor employees since it is labor intensive and involves constant moving of product, the company would implement a sales tracking portable device that directly connects the store with the ecommerce site and the distributors. Under this method, store clerks can carry the portable tracker on their person and be able to directly engage with the customer by locating products faster as well as order products directly with the consumer if the product is out of stock or not carried at that location. In addition, the sales tracker will be an inventory tracker with a minimum quantity set with distributors that can automatically order additional product to keep stock or for the company to ship excess material at one location to another location in

The theme of this book is how businesses in today’s world use ever-improving technology to collect data, convert it into information and business intelligence, and combine this information and intelligence with the knowledge of the workers to help make the best decisions they possibly can for the benefit of the company and the customers. Throughout the book, there are discussions on the different ways that technology can help a business with this process. When going into detail about the various information systems, this book also brings into

One of the main functions of any business is to be able to use data to leverage a strategic competitive advantage. The use of relational databases is a necessity for contemporary organizations; however, data warehousing has become a strategic priority due to the enormous amounts of data that must be analyzed along with the varying sources from which data comes. Company gathers data by using Web analytics and operational systems, we must design a solution overview that incorporates data warehousing. The executive team needs to be clear about what data warehousing can provide the company.

Sales order processing 3. Picking and packing the goods 4. Shipping Process Definition and Functions To create information flows supporting: Repetitive work routines of the sales order department, the credit department, and the shipping department -Decision needs of those who manage various sales and marketing functions Horizontal Perspective Management Questions Using Data Mining to Support Marketing Data warehousing Data mining Global E-business E-business systems are divided into two categories: Buy Side -Systems use the Internet to automate and manage corporate vendors and purchases E.g. Electronic data interchange (EDI), Supply chain management (SCM) Sell Side -Systems are designed to allow a company to market, sell, deliver, and service goods and services to customers throughout the world via the Internet CRM Systems Cultivate customer relationships by prospecting, acquiring, servicing, and retaining customers Customer self-service systems Context Diagram Diagram 1: Validate Sales Order 1.1 - Verify inventory availability Diagram 1: Validate Sales Order 1.2 - Check credit Diagram 1: Validate Sales Order 1.3 - Complete sales order Diagram 1: Validate Sales Order External Data Flow of Process 1.3: A picking ticket authorizes the warehouse to “pick” the goods from the shelf and send them to shipping -A customer acknowledgment notifies the customer of the order’s acceptance and the expected shipment date -A sales order notification is sent to the billing

Data mining is another concept closely associated with large databases such as clinical data repositories and data warehouses. However data mining like several other IT concepts means different things to different people. Health care application vendors may use the term data mining when referring to the user interface of the data warehouse or data repository. They may refer to the ability to drill down into data as data mining for example. However more precisely used data mining refers to a sophisticated analysis tool that automatically dis­ covers patterns among data in a data store. Data mining is an advanced form of decision support. Unlike passive query tools the data mining analysis tool does not require the user to pose individual specific questions to the database. Instead this tool is programmed to look for and extract patterns, trends and rules. True data mining is currently used in the business community for market­ ing and predictive analysis (Stair & Reynolds, 2012). This analytical data mining is however not currently widespread in the health care community.

Data mining software allows users to analyze large databases to solve business decision problems. Data mining is, in some ways, an extension of statistics, with a few

An important measure of any database management system is how effectively related data can be collected, organized and presented as reports, and also for business intelligence. What techniques from data warehousing and data mining would be used to facilitate this.

The system that I proposed for this company to use is Apriso Warehouse, which will help to improve the inventory. This new system proposal for Riordan is a system that is updated and will update automatically. It will help to improve all of the difficulties such as: data transferring problems, system being outdated, compatibility problems, data tracking, documentation, and unorganized systems. Some business requirements would be a new computer system, new internet, and software programs. The information in this new system will be safe and secure. Certain people get certain amount of

A data warehousing is defined as a collection of data designed to support management decision making. Data warehouses contains a wide variety of data that present a coherent picture of the business conditions at a single point in time. Development of a data warehouse includes development of the systems that extract data from operating systems plus the installation of the warehouse database system that provides managers flexible access to the data. The term data warehousing generally refer to the combination of many different databases across an entire enterprise. (webopidia)

With the help of this technology, it would be easy for the employees to carry out all the procedures and activities within the organization. It will help in avoiding all the paperwork; and, instead will maintain the records in a very systematic way. The data can then also be utilized for other data mining purpose. Another important gain of this technology to the given organization would be to improve the business performance, and thereby improve the profit lines down the operations (Cachin, Keidar, & Shraer, 2009). It will thus, give the management better controls for all the operative functions of the organization.

Sophisticated system based on a relational database The accounts manager has showed a need for a database that captures information about the customer and contracts and automatically alerts when certain level of stock is a needed to reorder.

Design, code and deliver user friendly multi-tier business intelligence solutions that utilize data warehouse/data mining technologies to consume data across various database platforms and data stores.

The headquarter of Ma Factory in San Jose need to process around 1,500 sales orders from six different branches each day. Currently, each department of company has MIS solution developed by IT department. And the systems do not have strong connection with each other, which means current system operate independently that requires a large amount of manual work between the data transfer. When a salesman places an order for customer in sales system, order details first come to credit department system to verify if the pay type is appropriate to the customer based on the payment history. Once the order get through the credit analysis, it goes to data entry department. And then employees in data entry import the data into invoice system, so that warehouse department could print invoices in their side. After warehouse finish packing the items, shipping department come to pick up the packages and invoices and ship

"Re-building is the crucial reevaluating and radical overhaul of business methods to attain emotional upgrades in discriminating, contemporary measures of execution, for example, cost, quality and pace" (Hammer & Champy-1993). Re-designing concentrates on the association 's business forms. Business Process Reengineering is the methodology of looking into how function is carried out in distinctive levels of an association and considering how to enhance things. The primary disadvantage is that there is no structural methodology for BPR. This paper give an audit of BPR and a deliberate methodology to update a business undertaking. The philosophy incorporates the five exercises: Prepare for re-building, guide and examine,

Since higher education has blurred the lines with traditional businesses, it is important to have the tools to assist them with valuable data and information, in making decisions. Using of data and having the right data mining tools can insure the institute’s success, in many forms, such as, identifying market trends, precision marketing, new products, performance management, grants and funding management, student life cycle management and procurement to mention a few. To get a better grasp on these benefits it’s important to understand data warehouse, data mining and the associated benefits.