Description
Based on your consulting company's initial work in discovering the business needs of Mid-Century Modern Décor Unlimited (MCMDU), you now have the following additional information about your client company's processes that will need to be supported by the planned inventory information system:
- Addition of new item to inventory system: the marketing/sales staff, in cooperation with the manufacturing staff, transmits the basic information on new products to be added to inventory management on a paper form brought to the inventory management office. This form must contain approval signatures of the Vice President for Operations and the Vice President for Sales. Upon receipt of a correct form (as determined by the Inventory Management staff), the inventory information for the new item is added to the appropriate Microsoft Excel 2010 workbook(s).
- Recurring inventory report: the inventory is reported on a monthly basis in printed form and distributed through interoffice mail to the owner, vice presidents, and managers of the manufacturing and marketing/sales departments.
- Ad-hoc inventory reports: an ad-hoc report on one or more inventory items may be requested by the owner, vice presidents, and managers of the manufacturing and marketing/sales departments. These requests must be created on a “Special Report Request” paper form brought to the inventory management office. The inventory management staff attempts to produce these reports within two business days of the time of the request.
- The inventory management staff will also create an ad-hoc report in printed form upon phone request from either the owner or the company vice presidents. There is not a special form for this request: the inventory management will jot the specifications for the needed report down on paper when called by these individuals with a request. The inventory management staff attempts to produce these reports within one business day of the time of the request.
- The inventory management staff maintains the templates for inventory information from the e-commerce retailer customers within a file folder on a hard drive on the PC computer system in the Inventory Management office. Recall from the Background Information section that e-commerce retailers will generally require that their company-specific templates be used when transmitting inventory-related information such as complete product descriptions. Once the templates are populated with the requested information, the Inventory Management staff can transmit that information to the e-commerce retailers by logging in through the retailer’s extranet portal for MDU.
The Tasks:
Using Microsoft Visio (a free download of Microsoft Visio 2013 or Microsoft Visio 2016 is available from your Microsoft Imagine accounts (see Pages tab for Imagine access information in the Canvas course website), develop a Context DFD diagram, a Level-0 DFD diagram, and three different Level-1 DFD diagrams for a proposed processes of inventorymanagement and related logistics issues as described in the business scenario for MCMDU. Your team will need to brainstorm to identify all potential sub-processes and then select and diagram them as appropriate for the three DFD diagrams. See textbook pages 184-203 for a discussion and examples of developing DFDs. See a definition of inventory processes available here (Links to an external site.). Other relevant processes in this case are inventory reporting,the production and maintenance of product description templates for ecommerce retailers, and inventory management in the company's outlet stores
Provide all five DFD diagrams on separate pages in a single Microsoft Visio file.
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