please I really need help. read the given case and answer the questions Q1) crit

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please I really need help. read the given case and answer the questions
Q1) critically discuss and evaluate the company's information management system
Q2) develop an improved business process using DFD. use appropriate symbols and labels for DFDs including context diagram
Q3) base in your answers above identify each specific improvements (changes) and discuss the rational behind each of these specific improvements (changes)

Case Analysis. Read the given case and answer the questions after the case. Case: North Pole Corporation (NPC) The North Pole Corporation (NPC) is a bicycle tires dealer that operates 25 retail stores in lloilo City. The company maintains a centralized purchasing and warehouse facility and employs a perpetual inventory system. All purchases of tires and related supplies are placed through the company's central purchasing department to take advantage of the quantity discounts offered by its suppliers. The tires and supplies are received at the central warehouse and distributed to the retail stores as needed. The perpetual inventory system at the central facility maintains current inventory records, which include designated reorder points, optimum order quantities, and balance-on-hand information for each type of tre or related supply. The participants involved in the NPC's inventory system include (1) retail stores, (2) the inventory control department, (3) the warehouse, (4) the purchasing department, (5) accounts payable and, (6) outside vendors. The inventory control department is responsible for maintenance of the perpetual inventory records for each item carried in inventory. The warehouse department maintains the physical inventory of all items carried by the company's retail stores. All deliveries of tires and related supplies from the vendors are received by receiving clerks in the warehouse department, and all distributions to retail stores are filled by shipping clerks in this department. The purchasing department places every order for items needed by the company. The accounts payable department maintains the subsidiary ledger with vendors and other creditors. The documents used by these arious departments are as follows: Retail Store Requisition (Form RSR). The retail stores submit this document to the central warehouse whenever tires and supplies are needed at the stores. The shipping clerks in the warehouse department fill the orders from inventory and have

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answer of Q1 :

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM :

Information management system is a cycle of organizational activity , the acquisition of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to those who need it. In information management system , availability of information is critical to the company's success strategy.

Stage:1 Taking advantage of public information

Recognising and adopting the well structured schemes of reference data such as post codes , GPS positioning data and travel time tables etc. These data are primarily required for North pole corporation as tire dealer.

Stage:2 Tagging the noise on the world wide web

Use existing schemes and adding tags or construct a formal ontology that provides structure . Structure must contain NPC's retail stores , outside vendors , warehouse and most important NPC's central purchasing department.

Stage:3 Shifting and analysing

Generalised ontologies that are under development extend to hundreds of entities and hundreds of relations between them and provide the means to elicit meaning from large amount of data. These data are very necessary while shifting of any of retail stores. And the information model will work as pillars for building strong relations with market.

Stage :4 Structuring and archiving

The large volume of data available from sources such as social web , web search evaluations , new ways to archive and then trawl data for meaningful information.

According to me , North pole corporation requires the web search queries data Iloilo city. Because these data will provide a basic information about requirement of customers and demands and also the most important one , Acceptability .

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