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Case study Of Lantex

The case study is used in different purposes such as for explaining about the information which is useful and giving the complete description in order to explore new findings. In this, explain the complete procedure of the system, by describing the interventions and events which are complex in that system. This case study describes about the “RFID-based garment manufacturing information system” complete procedure in process of the garment manufacturing. 

LANTEX is more familiar and one of the largest manufacturers in garments production, the garments which are produced by this company is used as the brands by other retailers. The company produces the garments which are more useful for the women, men, and children. The production is done according to the specifications, designs, and trends in the market which are ordered by the people or customers like knit tops with their own brand names.

There are two systems on which the company relies. One is traditional manual system and system of bar coding. The production operation is managed by using these two systems. Bar coding system means scanning the bar which is printed on the paper, this is indicating the related number of part which is used in the product. Collect the information of employer’s work which is done on that day. The usage of the bar coding system and traditional manual system leads to some deficiency of performance in the system and also having some disadvantages. Lacking the real time data is the most disadvantages in this system.

Deviating from the cloth designing and errors related to sew are the problems which are related to the operational. Discovering of problems which are related to operational and production process maintenance are difficult for the manager who is under production line department. Because of using the RFID technology there exist competitions in garment industry. The competition is in one hand and on other; there is a continuous pressure from the retailers for relating to the current trend and fashion according to the market style they have to produce the garments.

The garments will be selling with more demand from the customers. The company should produce the garments with in the shorter time with having more designs and variety of styles and the season should be in mind. The combination of all these will resultantly gives the fashionable wears for the customers. There is a continuous monitoring for this manufacturing process and having the control over the capability of production because there are frequent changes are done in fashions which are affecting the garment industry. The company should give the quick response for the changes and styles which are coming from the customers.

INTRODUCTION (first you should select a company and specify the information system in detail—This point is covered here) 

There were increases in the challenges of globalization by following the abolishment of the world organization Quota system in 2005.them the textile industry of UK had started to adopt new technologies to develop and surpass in high rate added manufacturing. Advances in Information technology says that many prospects fore companies including to enhance, garment, textile  industry and  change their work process  and business relations .It is declared that its have  a potential impact on organizational operation efficiency and competitive advantages .Recently “Radio frequency identification” has attracted the attention of several organizations. There have lower profit margin in industries like garment producing industry. The RFID technology is using in the garment and textile industry for facilitating the promotional activities, stock taking operations and permit the retailers to allocate resources to customers. In conventional manufacturing procedure it was beneath the manual trailing system that once the materials had sent to the production shop floor then they were penetrate in to the black hole and visibility of production is not available for the management till it manufacturing is over. 

Most of the textile and garment producers are yet using “paper ticket” to supervise their operation. Each bundle is fixed with a paper ticket it is written with bar code label for various process steps. After sewer completed their work they will tear off their part in the paper ticket. The supervisor will gather tickets all tickets  at the end of the day  and then clerk will enter in to sewer staff identity an d scan their tickets. The information about the operation is collected ad input in to system at his point at the end of the day. The textile and garment industry adopting ARFID technology it improve their sales and business and to get huge range of benefits. So this paper discuss about the case study there it describes about case analysis of RFID based manufacturing process. 

This case study examines the phenomenon of RFID technology and how it shows impact on  service delivery in textile and garment company Lantex and rest of the paper is  arranged in this way .In the next part here it was reviewed the business value of RFID on garment industry and the perception of “technology-push and need-pull “ of espousal decision. Here discuss about actual implementation of RFID technology based information management system in textile and garment manufacturing. Here it was summarized the factors which motivates the adoption of RFID technology. Finally it was giving some if the factors which lead to success in respective field.

In the below figure, the most of Enterprise System challenges can be assume from the Key factors motivating the realization of ES values. The ES allows the enterprise-wide management view of overall, how the company performs well.

It requires the vast amount of investment, spends the huge amount of time and high costs at the unfortunate side. Therefore, in the extensive implementation, it faces many of the daunting difficulties. Problems crop up after implementation when it comes to optimize, integrate and in format.

The bigger companies are facing the major problems because the companies use the hundreds or even sometimes use the thousand computers in the different type of departments. These departments serve the involving the various business units, functions, and management tiers.

Still the integration brings the quicker communications, money savings and improved decision-making and the integration is the more complex in the ongoing process can takes the many years to completely automated. To overcome this problem, the centralized shared services implementations are also includes by the recommendations. Whereas by sharing the software, hardware or other firms core business process, some companies left the services in the future. The Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) tools or web services to make the applications well matched to each other. Otherwise organizations requires to collaborate and business processes and agree on key information is the pain full process.

Among the more efficient arrangement between systems and required process, ES Customization can brings the optimization. The companies requires to make confident that managers and non-IT employees are educated about the process of new system suggestions and allow them to achieve it and to get the use of system. Before the presence of optimization, the managers are live using the system. The same in format process is applies which is known as an evolutionary process. Moreover, the professionals and managers are must learns the how to create the most professional use of persons information or data and how to separate out the information of good business from the huge amount of transactional data.

Organizations looking for to contract with that type of problem must implements the new ES functions. Moreover, these functions are like applications of performance measurement. For example, to track the performance uses the balanced scorecard application. The performance is handles the earlier information requirements and among the management information analysis considers the operations to generate the new insight. Data warehouses, ad hoc and portals reporting functionalities are also useful for the employees and permit the company to appear with the new and improved quality information or data.

From its ES, Dell is capable to accelerate and realizes the values. Moreover, to get the implementation of critical mass and get the most benefit on seamless flows of data and better integration and business Units, the information between the departments, and geographies, this company invests the much time and requires the which resources are come to use. To accept the bifocal advance on the long term and short-term benefits, the many firms play the safe role. To achieve the consequently produced equivalent action plans and benefits, Dell performs well and prioritizes intelligent benefits. Its incorporated MIS has effectively achieved its vital optimization goal.

For managing the process of business and improve the performance, the procedure of an efficient and integrated MIS serving is based upon the rest of this assignment. In the four walls of organizations does not finish the Processes of enterprise wise Business like functions or departments. Moreover, customers are integrates by this process and the customers are like partners of dell or best of variety vendors. The company’s links in the industry-wide system is highlight by another author. The process of inter organizational business is the most importance in these days.

Using the enhanced process of specific business, structures and capabilities, the performance of business improves by IT and this procedure is argues by the process oriented approach. In the value of IT business using the Resource Based View Theory (RBV) application, the dell is not directly links with the IT to improved performance of business. In this case, IT interacts or develops with organization capabilities and the processes of higher order business. The relationships of the supply chain are the examples for this type of business processes. The activities like internal and external and company process and analyzing the strengths and weakness of company are describes by the value chain method proposed by Lindgren.

Analyzing and choosing the correct process of right value chain, the successful robust business is creates by the Dell. Dell combines the customer management relationship and the concept of supplier to directly supplies to its customers. During the essential information of customer, Dell allows without any doubt to fight the best competitors than it. Moreover during the just in approach avoids the high obsolescence costs and high investment inventory costs at the same time due to the quick change of technology.

According to Walters, “vertuality becomes into reality” is allows by the improvement of the process management. For example, According to Dell, to improve the utilization rates of processor beyond 20% enables by the virtualization method. Moreover, the result is closing the two data centers, decomposing the total 8,000 servers, and saving the annual training costs of IT.

Dell is capable to create, delivers the maximum value to customers, and creates the competitive improvement by cooperating with the different opposite business partners using the value chain (Agency theory). During with the many suppliers cooperation so Dell is capable to gets more benefits. To decrease the company’s cash cycle, operating cycle and operating cycle, it is combines both the supplier’s influence of intangible assets and tangible assets together. The Transaction cost theory creates the vast competitive improvement for the company. To achieve the success, the efficient and robust Information technology communicates between the Dell and its partners. Partners play the vital role to achieve the success. This model is mainly looking after for the innovations and these are associated with the integration of SCM, KMS and CRM.

When the competitors form the team then combines the benefits is agree by many numbers of authors. The competitors like greater force, inter-partner learning and power to fake together into the new established markets as well as collecting the resources. However, other side contains the fear of critical corporate information for over-sharing and threat of trust and knowledge. These are makes to spoil the company market position, if the competitors use these. Therefore, these types of relationships are generally connections by the network sharing. However, sometimes the network complex interdependencies cannot coordinate or controlled but can only manage.

Among the success of hypercompetitive future, the business models are supports by only the high-tech companies. The future model contains the advantage of business model in the horizontal but not vertical. Therefore, this is the reason; the IBM Company will hold stable or slightly reject the Dell computers compared than to other companies. The other company’s drops down the 40% during the middle of 2000 once the economy is in uncertain position. Dell believes at that time is vertically connected enterprise is more than the vertically integrated enterprise proposed by Michael.

In Dell Company, the key applications such as the roles, efficiency and integration are analyzed. For increasing the access by the public and for the both in-bound and out-bound managers, the Dell’s integrated management system is formed in the layered management model. This is used for manage the products by organize and plan the required aspects. This is for, at lower cost increasing the manageability and interoperability and at different levels of structure getting the more efficient decision making. So it is named as the UMA (Unified Manageability Architecture).    

There are three layers in the Dell’s hierarchy. Namely: first one is operational, second one is tactical, and the last one is strategic level.

At the operational level the Dell’s system is also called as the “platform management”. This consist the all configurations, monitoring, and all diagnostics. For doing the quick help for the customer queries, this level is more depend on the TPS. This gives the more accurate and quick response for the queries of the customer.  Because there is a great emphasize on the marketing and sales function. For that department, the TPS application system has Sales Order Information System (Sales Management), Market research, and pricing system (for pricing promotion and new products).

For the life bring the new products and services by the DSS, there is a unique core competence through the competitive knowledge in production. The DSS uses the sophisticated modeling tools it gathers the data through the user control inputs and outputs. Because the DSS does not directly involve in the professional programming it is just support the decision making. The MIS application uses the high volume for the present and the past data. These are processed by using the simple model. The output is generally in the form of summary reports such as company’s annual report. This is done with the help of structured and unstructured decisions.

At the strategic level, the Dell system is also called as “Enterprise Systems Management”. For the strategic level managers this is divided into the longer term planning. This longer term includes resource management and business management. In this the CRM helps with data analysis tools and the advanced data consolidation. This is might be in the form of summarized or detailed when interacting with the ESS. At the same time the CRM is also work simultaneously with the DWS and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

The keyboard-to-server type of sales process is initiated by the customer. The dell’s customers could choose their system’s configuration from the thousands of software and hardware combinations. Generally the user friendly systems are selected which gives the updates and delivery dates. At the tactical level, from the operational level of TPS receives the data by the accounts department. The financial credit charge details are verified and sent the information to the TPS. This is because the order conformation with the customer and delivered it with in five working days.

Data is sent to the manufacturing department, order might be in the form of printout then starts manufacturing. After manufacturing it will be checked and sent it to the packaging department then to the distribution and logistics department. The agile supplier has the data getting from the TPS purchase order and according to that those will be sent to the customers next day.

At the strategic level, for the over all company, gathering the information from the various departments and different systems for help, support, forecast, and plan the future. There are three guide lines; these are the key for success in Dell.

Now a day’s among its IS, Dell produced its modified leagile supply chain (lean-agile hybrid) although benefiting from the Mason-Jones model metrics of the four key business. The Dell contains mainly the lead-time, cost, availability and quality using this model proposed by Christopher. The importance of changes of these key metrics is remember and requires by the Dell. The changes is made accordingly with the especially time when the winner of new market appears. Dell is also satisfies the below equation which is express in a business in the terms of value delivery

Total value = Quality * Service level / Costs * Lead-time

The success of the leagile supply chain is mention by the two decoupling points such as information and material proposed by Christopher. In the supply chain, upstream information is possible and this information is lie according to this author. In addition, it is the future point whenever penetrates the real actual demand using the TPS theory. The importance of IS shows by this theory and it permits the right information or data to develop into correct format accessible to the correct department of the correct level of the management and shows the how to improve the company overall performance.

            The various companies try the integrated system approach of Dell to copy. Without any luck, the Dell Company tried to changes the distribution channels from direct to indirect way. The Dell includes the set of systems. Therefore, this is the main reason beyond to capital benefit. The system is like integrated information system. This system serves and supports the process of custom configuration and gives the responsive ability to the customers.

There are significant changes in the market, products, and society. These are brought by the company fro which made a small change that is in the company full implementation is done in IT. But outside competitors, IT is not a differentiating factor.

It is a great success for the DELL, by using of this IT as a differentiator. This is outperforming for its rivals. Many researches can also said that, the positive effect which is significant brought by the IT/IS for the firm’s productivity. The “IT productivity paradox” is brought by the Brynjolfsson. This is used as a contribution for the business value. This gives the optimistic view and pessimistic view of IT.

There is a need to complement with the social assets (internet, IT training, rule & regulations), managerial assets (flexible management, and knowledge based decision making) and organizational assets (culture, efficient business processes) for optimize the IT investment returns. If the IT is complemented with more or other assets then the accumulation would be done with the superior returns and vice versa.

• Key systems Applications and their Interrelationship 

For getting the maximize efficiency and effectiveness of performance of the over all company, the key systems are interrelated to each other. The following is the fig for the interrelation of the systems. 

The external environment is changing frequently now a day; this may lead the organizational decision making become more complex. There are some globalization forces which may affect the businesses such as technology, political & legal, social & cultural, economical, ecological and many others. The way changing the business is known as “Behavioral Theories”. The companies are mainly focus on the core capability. This is used in developing the advantage about the sustainable competitive.

The Outsourcing is the latest trend in the business. It will become success only when the relationship with management is strong. The maintenance of relationship in between the organizations, supply chain members at different borders is enhanced. This enhancement is done with the use of IT. 

This application is selected by the DELL. This is used to show, implementation of IT in world wide operations. The customers, supplier, distributors, business partners are consisted in the exceptional virtual and integrated value chain. 

DELL has brought the optimization by using the integrated MIS; this is very helpful for the company in order to improve the performance. The performance is improved when the information is provided across various departments. For managing the business processes, the decision making is served as an efficient at the three tiers of management. There is an important characteristic in the IS integration. By the coordination of the activities, the databases are shared with the organizations. This is the degree for the IS integration. The other business units also access the right data during in this process. The right data is related to the different department’s activities.

 Design and manage information system of the company is done effectively by the manager by doing analyze deeply and closely. The understanding about the information systems and its structure for the manager, the classified divisional bureaucracy is helped out for the manager. The flexibility and the improved speed are the efficiencies of company product; these are earned from the global IT. This is done from the performance of the DELL in the IT globally

Question: 

Electronic Commerce has revolutionised consumer’s shopping behaviour as well as business models for firms and enterprises. Discuss the different forms of business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce and critically analyse its impacts on firm’s logistics and supply chain strategies, focusing on a specific firm or industry.

Layout: 

• 1500 words maximum, approx. 5 pages exclusive of references
• 1.5 or double spacing, Times New Roman, 12
• Titles in bold
• References required, bibliography optional

The cost side scale economies and demand and scope provide greater airline networks a viable advantage on lesser carriers. Airline alliances and mergers can permits airlines to lesser costs and improve demand with rationalizing the joined networks and growing the seamless services scope. Commonly, the benefit of mergers and alliances is reviewed as follows.

• Scale economies, density or scope

• Market demand

• Globalization

• Network Reliability

• Partner’s center access

• Technology access and other source

• Distributing resource

• Operational flexibility

• Competition reduction

• Diversification of Product/service

The effect level varies broadly between city-pair markets and involving various consumers’ classes in any case, this segment can balance the normal benefits and drawbacks of mergers and alliances. 

The virtual compare of the advantages in provisions of effectiveness and the results on contest depends on a several factors, as well as the overlap level in the airlines’ earlier networks to the merger of two networks.

Further than the airline ownership system has several other barriers of regulatory to mergers and airline acquisitions. These occur mostly from attempts through governments to prevent anti competitive activities or the neglect of a leading market position.

• A merger must not effect in either the removal of successful competition or an extreme market distribute for the existing firm.

• A merger must not effect in excessive concentration in the air transporter industry.

• A merger must not be probable to show the way to broad reactions and protective merger offers by competitive carriers.

• A merger must not cause in significant competition foreclosure for exchange traffic.

• A merger must carry the extensive operational, organizational advantages or service for the existing firm.

• In merger case comparatively efficient carrier which is marginal, or in the two marginal cases, the ensuing advantages of the existing firm must be corrective complexity of the fragile merger partner.

• In the merging firms the security given to the labor force must be in accordance by the current CAB policies.

• Types of alliance

In order to meet definite requirements of airline, an extensive range of difficult agreements of inter-airline has developed. In the industry of airline, the code-sharing agreements are the most common form of alliance. Theoretically, alliance’s diversity can be associated towards the cohesion level among the partners of code-sharing. This level is reproduced in.

• The alliance’s non-operating carrier’s commercial commitment
• The airline product’s operational integration
• The integration degree of marketing mix’s other components
• Alliance’s equity aspects
• The network scope 

       In general, four kinds of alliances are present like point specific. First type is Point specific where on specific city pairs the airlines only block space or code-share. Regional alliance is the second type where the airlines code-share on franchise regional airlines or on a number of routes. Global alliance is third type where several routes are code-shared by airlines connecting two significant networks of hub in an extensive commercial agreement. Strategic alliance is fourth type where the co-mingled assets might be maintenance bases, staff, traffic rights, aircraft, capital resources or terminal facilities. 

Items	Content
Point Specific	Code-shares on less number of pairs of city Often with the purchase of block space
Regional	Code-share on huge number of routes from-to a franchising of regional airline or a specific region
Global	Extensive commercial agreement Several routes shared by code Connecting two significant networks of hub
Strategic	If there is only an effective co-mingling of assets

 Table: Nature of airline alliances

 

• Factors affecting alliances 

     From the perspective of economy, limitations towards alliances can result from huge number of resources; constraints of regulatory compelled by technology changes, factors of supply-side like network economies, scale and scope, trends in demand level, determinants of market organization like competitive nature, and overseeing agencies.