Dec 16, 2009
Review of the article “Disney debuts do-it-yourself thrill ride” and a correlation to the Chapter 8 Much like the Sims City amusement park video game where one can run and design an amusement park, Disney has developed a new ride in where customers are able to customize a ride to their specifications. The new ride [...]
Dec 16, 2009
The article “Beware, Humans. The Era of Automation Software has begun” published in the New York Times, talked about the use of software systems in business. The article mainly focused on Hp and the computer software they use to help strengthen their business. the article made the point that humans make errors but not technology. [...]
Dec 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Chapter 8: IS in Business Apple is making headlines again. Their fiscal fourth quarter report was up 47% compared to Wall Street’s expectations. The company had substantial amounts of sales with both their MAC Pcs and Iphones. Apple obviously has strong production and operation management implemented in the way their business [...]
Dec 13, 2009
How Green Is Apple: Cleaning the Supply Chain Apple like many companies, outsources part of their manufacturing to other countries. By doing so, it makes it harder for apple to keep track of how their products might be harming the environment. What apple does is designs the systems but outsourcing the assembly to contract manufacturers. [...]
Nov 16, 2009
Motorola company will spend $60 million in Singapore to centralize and streamline global supply chain operations. the new investment at “control tower” which is global supply chain will allow Motorola to manage supply chain management activities across its businesses including mobile devices, networks and connected home products. Motorola currently invest more than US$10 billion worth [...]
Nov 5, 2009
In an article from BusinesWire.com, “Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc. Chooses ArrowStream Supply Chain Management Solutions to Gain Efficiencies, Savings,” the discussions is regarding Einstein Noah Restaurant Group(ENRGI) enhancing its supply chain management operations by agreeing to do business with ArrowStream, a leading provider of supply chain solutions for the foodservice industry. ENRGI choose ArrowStream’s [...]
Nov 5, 2009
How Green Is Apple: Cleaning the Supply Chain This article relates to an unusual aspect of supply chain management: the environment and guilt by association. Apple is the main company being discussed here, but essentially all major computer manufacturers (Original Equipment Manufacturers, OEM) outsource the physical construction of their systems. Like Dell in the chapter’s [...]
Nov 5, 2009
This chapter is about operation management and supply chain management that are important in business and information technology. In this article, it explains and represents global supply chain, based on china. China is the biggest country and has huge population, so it takes a significant role in global supply chain. Thus, it affects supply chain [...]
Nov 4, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009 Ch. 8 IS in business Many of us do not imagine ourselves ridding a bicycle to work, or even to school. We would rather drive and get where we are going faster. What if there was a bike that could get you where you wanted faster than a regular bike, and [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Making electric cars smarter Stephanie Mehta’s article entitled Making electric cars smarter is about a man named Shai Agassi that founded a company called Better Place. It is a company that is building a network of charging and battery-switch stations for electric cars. Agassi’s former job was a software engineer for a company called SAP. [...]
Oct 29, 2009
A British business reported this week that because of improvement in their supply chain, they have increased sales. Sainsbury reported total sales for the first half of the year increased 7.1% and weekly transactions were up 4% from last year. They credit this increase to the new supply management procedures. Sainsbury has implemented a new [...]
Oct 29, 2009
According to Ivanka Trump, when you’re starting up a company or taking over a company, whatever it is that you are looking or planning to do, make, or sell to your customers, it is crucial that you build your business on the assumption that you can do it smarter, better and more efficiently than your [...]
Oct 29, 2009
In this article, the electronic company Philips declared that they are doing a recall on about 5,400 HeartStart FR2 automated defibrillators. The recall was due to a possible memory chip failure that can possibly make the device unable to function properly. The HeartStart are used by trained responders and designated response teams to help treat [...]
Oct 29, 2009
For Chapter 8 I found an article in which IBM conducted a survey on over 400 senior executives from many different countries about their supply chain management. In the article it stated that supply chain management is growing increasingly which means there is more room for disruption and shocks. If one is not careful they [...]
Oct 28, 2009
This chapter talks a lot about supply chain management and how it affects a business’s bottom line and also the customer receiving the goods or service. A recent survey was conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas and found that the healthcare industry is in dire need of supply chain management. Heather Nachtmann, who [...]
Oct 28, 2009
The article dealt with Dell and how it has named their notebooks and netbooks. Though netbooks once were seen as the more portable ones, things have changed recently. Newer, smaller, slimmer, notebooks are now almost the same size as the netbooks. The capabilities are also not too different. The smaller notebooks are just slightly bigger, [...]
Oct 28, 2009
Microsoft is coming out with two new phones on October 14. The names of the phones are Pure and HTC tilt 2. The phones are going to be provided with service by AT&T. The phone will be competing with all the other smart phones on the market and it is entering a fairly well established [...]
Oct 28, 2009
This article talks about customer service and the 21st century business model. Basically this article emphasizes the importance of making changes to businesses as technology and times change. This article talks about the importance of customer service, changing ones business plan with the times, and keeping a focus on the businesses mission statement. “The changing [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Having a supplier’s contract with Wal-Mart has advantage and cost to it, suppliers should consider before applying for the contract. The advantage of supplying to Wal-Mart is that they have a wide base customers and a large corporation that will not order and not pay for it. The cost of supplying to Wal-Mart is that [...]
Oct 27, 2009
Companies Turn to Supply Chains For Relief of Economic Pressures Companies have begun to focus on the supply chain management during the past year to cut costs and grow revenues. The supply chain management demonstrates its use as a counter-cyclical tool for improved business performance. According to the 2009 Global Survey of Supply Chain Progress [...]
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