OPENING CASE QUESTIONS
Information Systems are Central at Grocery Gateway 1. What information systems are used at Grocery Gateway to help them make decisions? Would you classify these systems as TPS, DSS, or EIS? * The web site acts as a TPS as it supports customer transactions. * Logistic Management System is a mostly a DSS with some aspects of an EIS incorporated into it as analyzing some of its data can lead to strategic decisions. 2. How do these systems support operational, managerial or strategic level decisions?TPS collect operational data that allows the organization to fulfill daily operations such as the web site which collects customer orders which in turn cause Grocery Gateway to need to make decisions about
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Some key metrics might be: * Best-selling product * Worst selling product * Date of highest sales per month * Date of worst sales per month * Correlation between product sales * Distance to nearest grocery outlet * Sales by region * Sales by season * Time to delivery of goods 5. What does Grocery Gateway’s customer order process look like?
6. Describe how Grocery Gateway’s customer Web site supports Grocery Gateway’s business processes.
The web site allows customer to access its products 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in a simple way. Besides supporting online merchandising, single item picking, home delivery operations, and customer service it also allows them to use the web site to retain customers. 7. Describe how Descartes’ fleet management software improved Grocery Gateway’s logistics business processes.
Some business improvements experienced by Grocery Gateway include reduced delivery time by 14 percent, and increasing the stops per hour for delivery trucks by 12.4 percent. They have also improved the ordering processes and delivery mechanisms, and gained a solid and repeating customer base. 8. How does the business process affect the customer experience? The company’s bottom line?
There are numerous benefits Grocery Gateway could offer its members including additional discounts for frequent shopping,
If they succeed, other companies will probably go the online rout as well. This temporary competitive advantage will contribute to above-normal profits for Grocery Checkout, until other grocery supermarkets nullify the advantage.
B. transaction processing systems and office automation systems C. enterprise resource planning systems and transaction processing systems
The overall aim of the project will be to create an online presence to showcase their products. The website will reduce advertising costs and also streamline the ordering process.
Q1. What is the value proposition to the customer of Web-based shopping? How does it compare to the other innovations in customer service that Ives mentions at the end of the case?
- Internet and catalog shopping offers services for consumers out of the comfort of their own homes
Another target for this project is the Lowe’s For Pros website. This website is much like the regular website, but is focused on supplying companies or organizations with products. Our web feature is very applicable here as well and will be identical in nature. With this new feature, companies will easily be able to purchase the same items that they’ve looked at before. Much like the regular website, we expect increased revenues, customer satisfaction, and improved access to
Features and benefits- the features and benefits of these services are that when you shop at sainsburys, due to the helpful and willing staff, it makes you want to shop their again because you feel your
There are a lot of benefits the customers enjoy when they do their shopping online, such as:
The products will be delivered to the door of the customer at a set time during the week and the customer will have the possibility to change the time if the time slots initially selected becomes unworkable. This will be an advantage in terms of convenience in comparison with the brick and mortar competitors.
Key performance indicators (KPIs) play an essential role in determining the success of many businesses, specifically, in our case, the online grocery business (PeaPod). Observing the KPIs will allow us to identify further progress that has been made in categories like marketing, customer service, sales, etc. Although there are many key performance indicators that may determine the success of PeaPod, I believe that the three most important key performance indicators would have to be: average time for full delivery of items, average days late for the delivery of items, and the hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly sales of grocery items online. These three performance indicators focus primarily on shipment and sales. The measurement of average time
Grocery Gateway would like to increase their deliveries from 2.7 to 4 per hour. Dominique Van Voorhis, vice president of industrial engineering and operations systems, must provide recommendations for improving and optimizing the delivery operations.
Walmart is a billion dollar retailing machine. Through the decades, Walmart has combined many different types of information systems in to their day to day operations. Walmart is known around the world for their continuous improvements and implementation of new information systems to remain on top of the retail industry. The information systems used by Walmart play a major role in their continued success. With their use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Walmart is able to send and receive instantaneous data to their networks. This is why Walmart has been able to remain competitively priced and control their inventories. This paper will show how Walmart has used many different information systems during the course of its history to manage both capital and human resources.
Tesco is also doing well in the information system applications by including loyalty club card system to get valuable informations about customer's behaviors to extract their needs. In addition to the Information technology adopted by Tesco in using the newest technology and staying up to date. For example company has used a technological system that controls stocks, and keeps valuable record of customer's transactions and their purchasing
It is an online shopping facility for buying and selling products and services; the facility is widely used for electronics, health and wellness
11. From a logistics perspective, how is network organizational design manifested in terms of relevancy, responsiveness, and flexibility? (give examples)