Payroll And Employee Time Tracking Management Systems

Sales invoices are prepared in batches on a daily basis using numbered sales invoices. Sales invoice numbers are automatically generated by the company’s computer system. The accounts receivable clerk does not have appropriate computer rights to override the computer-generated invoice number. Upon preparing sales invoices, the accounts receivable clerk verifies that the first invoice number of the batch is consistent with the last invoice number of the previous batch. Inconsistencies or skipped sales invoice numbers are investigated and resolved before new sales invoices are prepared. The items shipped are compared to the items billed for proper quantity, price, and other sales order terms.

There are several red flags in the invoices. There are several invoice numbers that are repeated and have an A at the end of the repeated invoice.

The staff was made complacent by technology and leaned on the technology to hold and reproduce information. They never checked on the validity of the information they were receiving from the system. They also received information from the system in a form that was not easily usable.

Consequently, the potential increased volume of transactions and vendors would require an increase in the number of employees to perform the activities if the existing process were to be maintained. The increase in transaction and vendor volumes would be relative to the amount of time it takes to manage the invoicing of vendor payments. Of the six days per month taken to manage the processes, four days are for invoicing, which would now need to be multiplied by four, resulting in 16 days per month, more than half of the month being spent processing invoices by one of The Store’s admin team. This is valuable time taken away from more productive activities.

  * Software (Stellex, in 1987; Stellex 2.0, in 1992; centralized IT systems; E.Piphany; JD Edwards). – Appendix 1

Invoices are accounted for as spent as soon as the work has been performed. Another inadequacy with

This new system would allow for the finance office to create pretty well any type of report that you could look for,

InterContinental Hotel Group is a hotel company with over 350,000 employees working in 100 countries. It has over 5,000 hotels globally. One of IHG’s brand is the Holiday Inn, the Holiday Inn’s international headquarters are in Americas, Europe and Australasia. In London, UK, there are 72 hotels with the Holiday Inn or Holiday express brand. The InterContinental Hotel Groups structures their business into sections depending on what the hotel’s aims are. For example, the Holiday Inn Resort is abroad with outdoor swimming pools, it’s a very holiday place when you can spend 1-2 weeks there where the Holiday Inn is a place to stay over for one night or even the weekend. These two hotels have the same brand but different aims.

As we discussed in class, every business is faced with these issues and they are important to managers making strategic decisions. One of the first things learned about business is that if there is no demand for a good or service, the firm that provides it will not continue to exist. Over time the hotel industry has continued to change with market conditions and make itself attractive to business

Homestyle Hotels Inc is a result of merger of Lifestyle Resorts and Home Away Hotels. Each individual hotel operates in silos with no standardized process to capture client information. Initially, Ben Garrett (the IT director)’s mandate was to ‘consolidate the firm’s IT’, however with the said objective having been achieved, the higher management now wanted a more cohesive picture to enable better analysis and present a consistent picture to the outside world. The roadblocks to the integration are one too many- two different hotels, two different ways of working, vast geographical expanse. The question now was, of the two vendors who had come to present their software applications, which application would most suit the

3.1 For each hotel, what is the role of technology and the role of operations

The new employee scheduling system that Walmart has implemented is unethical. Calling an employee last minute for an opening is unethical not only because they will be caught off guard, but because they also have other things in their life that they might be doing in that moment they recieve a last minute shift call. This creates an environment for Walmart that includes employees that are stressed out, due to being called in at the last minute, and may create a decrease in productive work being done, based of bad attitudes the employees may have while working. Personally, if I were an employee at Walmart I would do anything I could to get this new system out of the business as a whole. Using

The most important thing to having a successful business is to have the most up to date information. If you have all the information at your fingertips it can help you to make the best possible decisions. What kind of information is available and how do we sort through it and use this information? In the hospitality industry the amount of information received everyday is overwhelming, and it isn’t possible for staff to be able to sort through it and organize it properly. In the hospitality industry the information technologies are the tools that the staff uses to sort and manage the information and the balanced score card is just one

Inventors:  Andreas Elkeles (Foster City, CA, US)  Fabian Guenther (Mauer, DE)  Philipp Suenderhauf (Leimen, DE)  Andreas Bold (Ludwigshafen, DE)  Peter Latocha (Malsch, DE)  Bernhard Drittler (Walldorf, DE)  Joerg Heitmann (Walldorf, DE)

Moreover, ICT is used for the inventory reception, management and proper distribution. When the necessary raw materials come from the suppliers it requires proper control and management system. Computer plays an important role for the management and distribution to manufacturing where necessary.