The main causes of the bullwhip effect are demand forecast updating, order batching, price fluctuations, and rationing and shortage gaming. Inaccurate forecasting and lead time variability are factors that affect […]

Tyler Bell, Steven Pham, Vilen Pustovoyt, Susan Wong

False, because forecasts are based on past sales, order information and trend analysis. Businesses are in the business of making a profit and would like to make as educated of a decision possible when placing or […]

1. Approxiamately 20%, as high as 50% for more aggressive manufacturers
2. 250,000
3. True, they had manufacturing in Brazil
4. Finproject NA

Alibaba provides buyers:
-Post buying requests
-Manage trades
-Alerts buyers about trades
-Price watch
-Customized sourcing
-Inspection service
-Help center

Suppliers:
-Display products for free, […]

1. WWT decided to focus on logistics and procurement services.
2. Oracle
3. A lesson WWT learned was that undersestimating needs and overestimating the potential of a product (Clear Orbit’s POC) can be […]

Supply chain management allows Warby Parker to look at all of the steps of the supply chain, figure out which processes they can take out to fit their business plan. Their business plan is to sell stylish glasses […]

MIS Professionals need to understand supply chains to be able to understand supply chain management. Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in providing […]

E. All activities are an integral part of a supply chain

Automotive companies such as GM and aircraft manufacturing companies such as Airbus are examples of companies that involve suppliers in new product development. I think this is a great practice, as both companies […]

Susan Wong (tub84944)

The most important thing that I took away from this course was learning how to use SQL and SAS. Both are great to add to one’s technical skillsets outside of MS Excel and Access. I would explain to future […]

Market basket analysis assists retailers in understanding the purchase behavior of customers. The information obtained can then be used for purposes of cross-selling and up-selling, in addition to influencing […]

Spotcrime is a OLAP system because based on zipcode it shows you historical data about crimes. It helps show what has happened, however cannot help predict what will happen in the future.

Something such as a phone number, is an example of date that can be represented in multiple ways. A phone number could be represented as a series of 10 numbers, including the area code, back to back (ex. 2151234567. A phone number could also be represented with dashes in between the numbers (ex. 215-123-4567). It [...]

One key difference between ERD’s and schema’s is the way attributes of relationships are represented and the need for foreign keys. For example, an ERD with two entities may share a relationship in which there is a common attribute. For example an order and product share a relationship. Both entities need a quantity. Quantity would [...]

Sharing customer data has costs and benefits. I agree with those who said that sharing customer data would hurt the security of customer data, customer privacy, and loyalty. However if you think about it, customers sign away some of the rights to the data that they provide when they agree to the long terms of [...]

In my opinion a student’s TUID number is a better primary key than a student’s AccessNet ID. Though both are not the best choices for a primary key. A student’s AccessNet ID is used more commonly than a student’s TUID number. Just think about the number of text fields and situations in which your AccessNet [...]