Is535 Week 5 Hw

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To meet the requirements desired by the President and Vice President of the Acme Corporation, I believe that they will only need four servers, considering it is such a small business of less than 20 people. All of the servers will be running Windows Server 2008 R2. The following servers will be: a file and printer server, an email and web server, and an SQL server.

The board of directors met to discuss the possibility of changing our pricing and making a couple changes to the policies. The board decided to make the following changes:

The four phases of a disaster plan will consist of Preparedness Efforts, Mitigation Measures, Response Phase, and the Recovery Function. This is where I will describe each part in its own section of this essay.

14. MC: A(n) ____ is hardware (a computer) that can be used to share mail, databases, and more.

The supplier group poses a credible threat of forward integration (supplier can become its own retailer)

For example: our supplier is Breyer group, this is an external company that carries out the works to council properties. We need Breyer group to be reliable to help us provide good customer service. We also need to be able to trust our supplier with all the residents’ information.

2. Supplier Relations: “We encourage our suppliers to operate in ways that promote beneficial social and environmental outcomes. For our part, we pledge to treat our suppliers with respect, provide development opportunities and work as long-term partners. 3. Supplier Diversity: “As an equal opportunity employer, we require companies with which we conduct business to share this commitment (Bank of America,

Some of these problems in the supply chain often go unnoticed as the number of links between supply network members. Supplier Ethics Management is the “management of suppliers and supply relationships with strategies, programs, and metrics that better align supplier business conduct with purchaser standards, with the goal of reducing the purchaser’s overall risk of corporate integrity failure in the supply chain.“ (www.s-ox.com)

Suppliers is the provider of inputs, so the measures of these two are always related with each other. For example, we always use quality of the inputs, price, delivery reliability, and service measurements. In this suppliers and inputs part, we are hard to see as a customer. It is based on our recommendations.

An organization focuses on many aspects and strategies that address customers’ needs and wants. The organization develops a product that includes many steps such as, product life cycle, type of brand, packaging and labeling, but the final step is how to have their product accessible to the consumer, which is distribution. A distribution channel is the path where products, including their ownership, flow from producer to consumer. There are many paths an organization can choose to send their product. Physical distribution is the actual movement of products from a producer to consumers.

In late 1980’s, the success of Japanese companies triggered academics and practitioners who found that their managers had treated their suppliers as valuable resources, which was important to the companies’ success. Therefore, immense effort was put in to maintaining a good relationship with the suppliers.

The process of promoting products to customers and includes defining scope of product lines, pricing, target markets and distribution methods.

The several types of processes that would work best by being handled through information system software would consist of:

is the primary objective of any industry supply chain. Quick and timely deliveries entail high