Data warehousing
Essay - 3 pages - Computer science
A data warehouse is a term used to describe the electronically stored data of an organization. These warehouses are important in helping an organization analyze and report on the organization data. It is a process that aims at storing data but it also aims at retrieving, extracting, transforming,...
Data warehousing and data mining: Bringing pinpoint accuracy to sales
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
For most businesses, the primary means of growth involves the acquisition of new customers. This could involve finding customers who previously were not aware of your product, were not candidates for purchasing your product, or customers who in the past have bought from your competitors. Some of...
Data Mining and Warehousing and its Impact on Banking Organizations
Essay - 5 pages - Computer science
Over the course of the last several years, the development and proliferation of information technology has impacted most industries. As the result of new technology, organizations are now able to collect and analyze data for the development and implementation of new products and services. Nowhere...
Supply Chain Management: The Main Groups in the Transport/Logistics Sector
Case study - 9 pages - Logistics
In all liberal economies based on the free movement of goods, people and capital, the transport and logistics sector is essential. The logistics sector is also one of the most dynamic in France, representing 10% of French GDP and generating nearly 2 million jobs. For several years, the...
Logistics Optimisation: The Case of Storage
Case study - 11 pages - Logistics
The logistical organisation, as part of the routing of products, from manufacturing to the points of consumption, is a succession of transport and warehousing phases. Within the framework of the logistical platform, storage is the upstream part of the process, handled by the reception and...
Management and cultural aspects
Course material - 25 pages - Management
Human beings have needs in order to survive and the purpose of economic activity is to satisfy these needs by providing people with what they need. Such needs will vary from person to person because each person seeks different things at different times. Those who are poor would like to satisfy...
A new paradigm in designing an advertisement - an application of real time data warehouse & data mining in preparation of an ad copy
Thesis - 16 pages - Computer science
The purpose of the article is to address the relative information of modeling an ad copy through real-time data warehousing. In modern enterprises the day-to-day activities information is to be stored in data warehouse. We have taken the example of data warehouse concept from SAP Business...
Alko
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
For the past few years, the profits of ALKO have shrunk because of a more active concurrence. Then, the board of directors of this company, which produces lighting fixtures, decided to hire Gary Fisher to try to find a solution to reduce the delivery costs. After having studied how the company...
A closer look at Covansys with special reference to ITES sector in India
Dissertation - 100 pages - Management
Incorporated in 1985, Covansys Corporation is a global technology services company with a focus on industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing and integration services. It addresses the most challenging technology issues companies are facing through an onsite, offsite, offshore delivery...
Marketing strategies of IBM Global Service India
Dissertation - 54 pages - Services marketing
IBM India's revenue is up 45% from a year ago, largely contributed to by a strategic approach and highly penetrative marketing strategy, and it keeps winning its share of large deals, such as a 10-year, $750 million contract it signed in 2004 with Bharti Tele-Ventures, India's No. 1...
Business intelligence
Presentation - 47 pages - Computer science
This presentation tells about business intelligence. It begins with evolution of BI, tools used and a pictorial representation of its services. It then moves on to a precise definition of Business Intelligence warehousing concept and its features. Next it explains data warehouse tool...
Organization of Lyon terminal inside the CNR (Compagnie Nationale du Rhône)
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
The CNR or Compagnie Nationale du Rhône has several main activities: - First, it is an independent electricity producer. Thanks to its electric plants, the company produces around 16 billion kwh that have been sold directly to the European market since 2001. In order to do this, the CNR signed a...
Supply chain management, concept and its uses
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Business strategy
Supply Chain Management has dominated our lives, our thinking and our actions for almost half a decade now. From logistics to materials management to supply chain management, the evolution has been slow and stead. The decade of the 90's has been the most turbulent leading to large-scale adoption...
Financial instruments and documents that facilitate export import trade
Tutorials/exercises - 51 pages - Finance
Exports are vital to any economy, be it developed or developing. No country can isolate itself from exports in some form or other. Export performance is one of the main economic parameter of a nation. However, exports all over the world face tough challenges than before and Indian exporters are...
Developing a supply chain for the service industry
Dissertation - 41 pages - Management
Historically we have moved from physical distribution to logistics management to supply chain management. The major difference seems to be that supply chain management is the preferred name for the actualization of “integrated logistics”. With IT (Information Technology) acting as an...
Company analysis - PepsiCo
Case study - 10 pages - Audit
PepsiCo is a major corporate player in the global food and beverage industry, providing people with a wide selection of uncomplicated products since the early 1900s. Therefore, PepsiCo has been around since 1898 and functions through a complementary entity of a collection of brands that covers...
Overview of the IPCL (Indian Petrochemical Corporation Limited)
Dissertation - 49 pages - Business strategy
IPCL, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, is a pioneering petrochemicals company in India and was incorporated on 22 March 1969. It is a leading integrated manufacturer of polymers, synthetic fibers & fiber intermediates & chemical products from hydrocarbon feed stock. They also...
Summary of: International Marketing and Export Management, G. Albaum, J. Strandskov and E. Duerr
Book review - 95 pages - Management
Increasing importance of international markets has been the result of a number of interrelated factors namely, 1. There has been a continuing lowering of barriers to trade and investment 2. Improvements in transportation and logistics have further lowered the cost of exporting and importing 3....
Customer Relationship Management in Riyadh Bank
Case study - 15 pages - Management
Customer Relationship Management is a tool for attracting and retaining customers that a business has identified as potentially profitable in the long term. CRM can help businesses to build sustainable competitive advantage and protect their market share from possible erosion by new entrants. It...
International logistics management
Tutorials/exercises - 31 pages - Management
Seaports are built basically to facilitate the transfer of cargo between inland and maritime transport. Ports are therefore, an essential link in the international maritime transport chain. The main function of the sea ports is to ensure that the prosperity of all countries depends to a very...
The Ikea site visit : organisation of Saint Quentin Fallavier platform
Case study - 16 pages - Logistics
IKEA is a privately held international low-cost home-furnishings retailer. It was founded in 1943 in Sweden by Ingvar Kamprad, but is now owned by a Dutch-registered foundation, which is still controlled by the Kamprad family. This foundation, whose offices are in the Netherlands, Sweden and...
Foxtel TCO Analysis
Case study - 50 pages - Logistics
"Sourcing in China started with low-tech products but it has evolved beyond that," says Jim Hemerling, a senior vice president in The Boston Consulting Group's Shanghai office. "Now, in addition to traditional products, another huge area is consumer electronics. I believe the next big wave...
Green or environmental logistics
Essay - 5 pages - Logistics
For a number of years, environmental issues have been a growing concerns in society, particularly in the business practices. Under influences of lobby, customers or stakeholders, the idea of sustainable development and of ecological respect has become more popular. Thus, as many other activities...
Amazon.com entering the Australian Market
Case study - 69 pages - Services marketing
Amazon.com Inc. is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Since its foundation as an on-line bookstore in 1994, the company has been showing an incredible growth that it now sells not only books, but also VHSs, DVDs, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games,...
Improving the most important logistics- Changing the supply chain of International Federation of Red Cross Red crescent Societies (IFRC)
Essay - 7 pages - Logistics
Logistics management is “that part of the supply chain process that plans, implements and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements”. This...
Ascendum Systems Pvt Ltd
Dissertation - 86 pages - Business strategy
India is poised to become a global IT superpower is not a revelation. Indians dominate the IT sector workforce, not only in US, but all over the world. In the last year or two, countries like Germany, France, and Japan have opened doors and are hiring hundreds of thousands of Indians in the IT...
A presentation on marketing management
Presentation - 61 pages - Services marketing
This presentation will start with marketing environments and systems. It will explore environments like the economic, competitive, technological, socio-cultural environments, etc. The presentation will then progress towards market oriented strategic planning. It will also talk about the BCG...
Information technology and strategic management
Thesis - 23 pages - Management
Strategic management is defined as “the set of decisions and actions resulting in formulation and implementation of strategies designed to achieve the objectives of an organization”. The formality of strategic Management systems vary widely among companies. Formality refers to the...
A study on evolution, working and the current scenario of the commodity market in India
Tutorials/exercises - 41 pages - Finance
What is “Commodity”? - Any product that can be used for commerce or an article of commerce which is traded on an authorized commodity exchange is known as commodity. The article should be movable of value, something which is bought or sold and which is produced or used as the subject or...
Information technology as an enabler of sales and distribution
Dissertation - 47 pages - Business strategy
A competitive edge in sales and distribution network provides much needed muscle to the companies to compete in market place as has been epitomized by companies like HLL, Marico & ITC etc. Use of IT in sales and distribution promises to provide a consistent source of competitive advantage that...
