Case Study:

Numerous information systems are available within SAP ERP to support most of the processes that we will discuss in this book. Information systems (IS) can be divided into three broad categories: logistics information systems (LIS), financial information systems (FIS), and human resources information systems (HRIS). Logistics information systems support all of the logistics processes. Recall that logistical processes are concerned with acquiring, storing, creating, and distributing materials. The components of LIS include purchasing IS, sales IS, inventory control IS (IWM processes), quality management IS, plant maintenance IS, and shop floor IS (production processes). The financial information system supports reporting related to the general ledger (e.g., balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows), accounts receivable, and accounts payable. The HRIS is used to retrieve information about different HR components such as personnel, positions, and jobs.

Recall that information systems are part of the OLAP component of SAP ERP, and they utilize information structures to provide analytic capabilities. There are two types of information structures—standard and user-defined. Standard information structures are predefined in the SAP ERP system, and they collect the data needed to generate the most commonly used reports. SAP ERP also enables users to define their own structures, known as user defined information structures, to meet specific reporting requirements.

Finally, information structures enable users to conduct two types of analysis— standard and flexible. Standard analysis provides predefined analytics for data in standard information structures. This type of analysis is sufficient for most analytic requirements. When standard analysis is insufficient, users can conduct flexible analysis to customize the reporting. In contrast to standard analysis, flexible analysis allows users to define the content and format of the analysis. Specifically, it enables users to combine available characteristics and key figures as needed and to create new key figures using user-specified formulas. It also provides users with several layout options.

To summarize, the OLTP component of SAP ERP offers reporting in the form of work lists and online lists that are based on detailed transaction data.

In contrast, the OLAP component offers reporting via information systems, based on aggregated data in information structures. These capabilities are limited to data within the SAP ERP system. Today, however, companies need even more powerful reporting capabilities that combine data from multiple sources. This is the domain of business intelligence.

Q1. As an information systems project manager, on what bases would you select the modules and the functionalities of the enterprise systems to fit with your business needs and requirements?

Q2. Analyze the capabilities and the type of reporting you are seeking for your project and illustrate the right approach in selecting the suitable IS vendor for the project.

Describe, discuss, and analyze the internet marketing possibilities for Apple Pay in 2 paragraphs.

Create a new Java project, name it “Quiz02”. (This is a JAVA Programming question, thumbs up quick and correct answer)

1) Create a java class Traveler that has four data members, String name, Date bDate, int id and int noOfDependens.

Generate the following:

1- Getters and Setters.

2- Four parametrize constructor to initialize the four data members above.

3- toString() method.

Create a java class Flight that has four data members, String number, String destination, int capacity, and ArrayList travelers.

 Note1 - travelers will be used to track the No. of travelers so far on the selected flight.

 Note2 - No. of travelers = No. of dependents + 1;

Generate the following: 1- Getters and Setters.

2- Three parametrize constructor to initialize the number, destination and capacity.

3- toString() method.

4- Method public void addTraveler(Traveler traveler) that will do the following:

a. It will calculate the total No. of travelers so far.

b. It will calculate the total availability = capacity - No. of travelers.

c. If the availability is equal to OR more than the requested tickets (traveler + his noOfDependens) then, accept this reservation and add the traveler to the flight ArrayList, otherwise, reject the reservation by printing the following message “This reservation is NOT accepted. Total No. of requested tickets are: X while the availability is: Y”

d. Sample for your output in case the reservation is accepted is listed below.

Create a java class AppSystem for testing, and include the main method. Then create the following:

Traveler("Traveler1", (17, 5, 1950), 1950517 , 7); Traveler("Traveler2", (2, 12, 1975), 1975122 , 5); Traveler("Traveler3", (13, 3, 1981), 1981313 , 3); Traveler("Traveler4", (9, 10, 1979), 1979109 , 4); Traveler("Traveler5", (25, 5, 1963), 1963525 , 6);    Flight("QAR246", "Kuwait", 70); Flight("Kuw579", "Doha", 60);

5- Add to the Flight QAR246 the first Traveler1 Sample for addTraveler() method after accepting the traveler Traveler1.

Flight capacity: 70

No. of current travelers: 0

Flight availability: 70

=======================================

Accepted reservation. Total No. of reserved tickets are: 8

6- Print the flight QAR246 details by calling the method toString(), sample for your method output listed below:

***** Flight details *****

==========================

Flight No.: QAR246

Flight destination: Kuwait

Flight Capacity: 70

List of travelers:

Traveler name: Traveler1

Birth Date: 17/ 5/1950

ID: 1950517

No. of Dependents: 7

The following dessert is OK on an ADA Tray:

Select one:

a. Butter cookie

b. Orange sections

c. Chocolate pudding

d. Brownie

Select a product that members of a particular nation consume heavily. Research the country's culture and geographic location and describe why they are heavy consumers of the product selected.

Somehow the answer to this is (4) but I dont see how that is possible so please EXPLAIN.

Which of the following statements relating to molecular orbital theory (MO) is incorrect?

(1) Combination of two atomic orbitals produces two molecular orbitals

(2) Combination of two 2p orbitals may result in either sigma or pi MOs

(3) A species with a bond order of zero will not be stable.

(4) Molecular orbitals are hybridizations of atomic orbitals.

(5) A diatomic molecule with an odd number of electrons will be paramagnetic

Discuss how using systems thinking will influence your decision-making. please insert citing if possible.

Use Context-Free Pumping Lemma to prove that that following languages over the alphabet {'x', 'y', 'z'} are NOT context-free

(a) {x^jy^2jz^j : j > 0}

(b) { x^myⁿz^k : m, n, k ≥ 0 and k = min(m,n) }

Minden Company is a wholesale distributor of premium European chocolates. The company’s balance sheet as of April 30 is given below:

The company is in the process of preparing a budget for May and has assembled the following data:

1. Sales are budgeted at $256,000 for May. Of these sales, $76,800 will be for cash; the remainder will be credit sales. One-half of a month’s credit sales are collected in the month the sales are made, and the remainder is collected in the following month. All of the April 30 accounts receivable will be collected in May.

2. Purchases of inventory are expected to total $188,000 during May. These purchases will all be on account. Forty percent of all purchases are paid for in the month of purchase; the remainder are paid in the following month. All of the April 30 accounts payable to suppliers will be paid during May.

3. The May 31 inventory balance is budgeted at $83,000.

4. Selling and administrative expenses for May are budgeted at $91,500, exclusive of depreciation. These expenses will be paid in cash. Depreciation is budgeted at $4,000 for the month.

5. The note payable on the April 30 balance sheet will be paid during May, with $435 in interest. (All of the interest relates to May.)

6. New refrigerating equipment costing $7,000 will be purchased for cash during May.

7. During May, the company will borrow $23,100 from its bank by giving a new note payable to the bank for that amount. The new note will be due in one year.

Required:

1. Calculate the expected cash collections from customers for May.

2. Calculate the expected cash disbursements for merchandise purchases for May.

3. Prepare a cash budget for May.

4. Prepare a budgeted income statement for May.

5. Prepare a budgeted balance sheet as of May 31.

1. Some people have suggested that understanding human behavior at work is the single most important requirement for managerial success. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?

2. In what ways is organizational behavior comparable to functional areas such as finance, marketing, and production? In what ways is it different from these areas? Is it similar to statistics in any way?

3. Identify some managerial jobs that are highly affected by human behavior and others that are less so. Which would you prefer? Why?

4. The text identifies four basic managerial functions. Based on your own experiences or observations, provide examples of each function.

5. Which managerial skills do you think are among your strengths? Which are among your weaknesses? How might you improve the latter?

What are legal and ethical implications of data mining with healthcare informatics?

What Business Could You Start in Miami?

3 Reasons

DIRECTIONS:

In this presentation, you will suggest a business idea and discuss 3 reasons why the audience should invest in your new business. You are going to open a business in Miami. It can be any kind of business. Your presentation must focus on persuading your audience your investors why they should invest their money in your new business.

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1. 1 Pesticides suspected in mass die-off of bees Text excerpted from March 29, 2012|By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times

2. 2 Scientists have identified a new suspect in the mysterious die-off of bees in recent years � a class of

3. 3 pesticides that appear to be lethal in indirect ways. The chemicals, known as neonicotinoids, are designed

4. 4 to target a variety of sucking and chewing insects, including aphids and beetles. Bees are known to ingest

5. 5 the poison when they eat the pollen and nectar of treated plants, though in doses so tiny that it was not

6. 6 seen as a threat.

7. 7 A study published online Thursday by the journal Science indicate that the pesticides are not altogether

8. 8 benign. The study used miniature radio frequency chips to track honeybees and found that the pesticide

9. 9 impaired their ability to navigate back to the hive after a feeding expedition.

10. 10 Beekeepers became alarmed that honeybees were vanishing from their nests across the U.S. in the fall of

11. 11 2006 � victims of a perplexing and pervasive malady now known as colony collapse disorder that wiped

12. 12 out as many as 90% of bees, in some cases. Scientists don't know exactly why the ailment strikes, but

13. 13 they believe it results from a combination of habitat degradation, infection by pathogens and parasites and

14. 14 pesticide use. Researchers have also documented sharp declines in bumblebees, which are important crop

15. 15 pollinators but are not domesticated.

16. 16 Neonicotinoid pesticides were developed to eradicate insects without threatening mammals. The

17. 17 chemicals, which are incorporated into the tissues, leaves and flowers of plants, target the central nervous

18. 18 system, leading to paralysis and death. Farmers began using them in the early 1990s.

19. 19 Past studies have explored effects of neonicotinoids in the lab, finding that they might harm bees'

20. 20 memory, learning and orientation. But the new study is among the first to examine the pesticides' effects

21. 21 on bees under real-world conditions.

22. 22 The study led by researchers from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, or INRA,

23. 23 focused on honeybees, which have been victimized by colony collapse disorder throughout the Northern

24. 24 Hemisphere.

25. 25 First they glued special radio frequency identification tags to the bees' thoraxes. Then they fed the bees

26. 26 sublethal doses of a neonicotinoid and monitored the insects as they attempted to return to the hive.

1. 27 The research team discovered that the "intoxicated" bees were about twice as likely as unexposed bees to

2. 28 die because they couldn't find their way home. Computer simulations suggested that these no-shows could

3. 29 cause hive populations to crash in a matter of weeks, said study coauthor Mickael Henry, a researcher at

4. 30 INRA in Avignon. The weakened colonies would be especially vulnerable to environmental

5. 31 stresses such as climate change or disease, he added.

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1. 33 The new findings lend support to the notion that pesticides contribute to colony collapse, but

2. 34 leave open the likelihood that habitat destruction and illness play a role too, scientists said.

3. 35 "There are a whole lot of things that stress the honeybees," said Eric Mussen, a honeybee

4. 36 specialist at UC Davis. "You can't point your finger at one thing and say, 'That is the problem.' "

5. 37 Mussen cautioned against singling out neonicotinoids when other pesticides could have similar

6. 38 effects on bees. Besides, he said, many insects have built up immunity to neonicotinoids, so

7. 39 farmers are likely to switch to different pesticides anyway.

B: Bees released at a random location a kilometer away from the hive. Vertical axis shows relative number of bees returning to hive (1 = 100%)

Graph from: Henry, M., Beguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., & Decourtye, A. (2012). A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees Science