Overview
For your white paper, you may use the same company you selected for another assessment or select a different company from this list:
- Amazon.
- Apple.
- Boeing.
- L. L. Bean.
- Intel.
- General Motors.
- Starbucks.
- Walgreens.
- Walmart.
- Your workplace (if your company sells more than $50 million per year).
Conduct your research and write about the selected company's information management system (IMS). Include the following:
- Analyze the company's information management system and relate the IMS to the company's business objectives.
- Analyze how technology is used for managing the company’s transportation and warehousing network using relevant examples.
- Analyze how the company's IMS provides a competitive advantage over the competition and summarize the unique features that create customer satisfaction.
- Analyze how the IMS helps coordinate between supply chain partners and provide an example of how the coordination leads to exceptional service.
- Analyze how an IMS helps monitor orders and inventory levels and satisfy customers using relevant real-world examples.
- Analyze why managing information is equally or more important to the company than moving products by relating the impact of information management to productivity, efficiency, and profitability.
- Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
- Format: Submit a professional and well-organized Word document.
- Length: 5–6 double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
- APA format: Use current APA style and formatting for in-text citations and references. See Evidence and APA for help if you need it.
- References: 3–4 sources are required. As the basis for your research, you can use any of the resources noted in this course, in the Capella library, and on the Internet.