Organizations increasingly adopt process management practices to remain competitive. Much of the practitioner literature touts the benefits of process management and its impact on operational performance. However, empirical evidence in academic literature is mixed, and some researchers and practitioners question the positive impact of process management on innovation performance. Operations Management is one of the three functions leading any organization and is fully connected to the other functions of business. All organizations market, finance and produce, which is key for the area of operations / production management in an organization. That is why we study how people organize for production and the way that goods and services are generated. To achieve an efficient production function, the organization must have a mission and a strategy.
Firms have found that e-business has inspired new and unique commercial forms and approaches, design of innovative business models, and deployment of newer more agile business processes and operations (Nigel, Stuart, 2007, 542). The technology has given new degrees-of freedom to those who must devise ways to create value in the marketplace, enhance value propositions, improve value chain performance, and generally fortifies competitiveness. The salient theme of these e-business developments is that the progressive use of digital technology can provide powerful communication and collaboration linkages between businesses and their many constituents.
In this paper we will be discussing systems and operation mamagement of Atokowa. The Atokowa company was founded in 1964 by Lachlan Atokowa in Sydney, Australia. Lachlan started up his own photocopying business in his garage when he purchased a Xerox 914 machine. The Xerox 914 was the first commercially successful photocopying machine.
Atokowa Retail Operations
Over the years, each running its own stock of retail paper control system. It is important that these systems are accurate, as each store manager has been re-order values ??of the Melbourne store. This system is very cumbersome and often involved an inventory of after work to the workers only have the stock at least once a quarter. In 1998, Paul Fairclough (who was a manager in a store in Melbourne at the time) insisted on the implementation of integrated EPOS (point of sale system electronics) that would allow people to track BYN barcode. In 1999, Jonathan Atokowa led Paul to the seat of management development in Sydney and implementation of database applications in Microsoft Access. This became known as ASIS - reducing Atokowa Information System Stock Exchange. The success of ASIS statement was based primarily on simplicity. Atokowa Each child was equipped with a standard Windows PC is connected via a simple local area network (LAN) systems EPOS checkout. Every transaction made on the pre-treatment:
The product is analyzed in the EPOS system
Products
Payment is accepted
After payment is made, each item sold was written in the operations table to access the database MS ASIS (without affecting the operation of the payment process, in any case)
If any trade agreement is in table operations, the number of the product was carried out at a ...