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Using Organizational Databases Abstract In today’s global economy, information drives the decisions that business leaders make. The more information leaders have at their disposal, the better their decisions will be. The mediums that contain the information these decisions are based on, are stored in databases throughout the company. Upper level managers making decisions, as well as production workers checking inventory, can quickly access these databases. We will examine some of the databases within the shipping department at my company, and how that information is used to make decisions concerning its’ day to day operations Using Organizational Databases The shipping department at my company actually performs two functions within the organization. As our name implies, we ship basically the entire line of products that goes out the door. This includes everything from finished goods products, CRG’s (customer return goods), RTV’s (return to vendor), to items that personnel within the company send to their customers. The second function of the shipping department, and just as crucial as shipping itself, is the finished goods inventory for the company. This information is all contained and controlled through our master business system, SAP. The different modules, or databases, within SAP are designed to keep track of our inventory by part number and serial number. Our department also stores or inventories equipment that is built to stock. This equipment will be reissued to manufacturing at a later date in order to install the right software or hardware to meet specific customer requirements. The shuffling of this equipment requires that the database change this item from a +TL unit that requires modification, back to an in-process unit. Once the modifications requirements are met, these units will be returned to finished goods inventory where they will await an order to ship on.
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