1)Explain the role of information plays in enterprise
resource planning systems?
The role of information plays
in enterprise resource planning system is when a user enters or update information in one module, it is immediately and
automatically updated throughout the
entire system and the main purpose of an ERP is to collect, update and maintain
enterprise wide information. All the functional departments can access the same
information when making decision and also solving problem.
The role of the entreprise resource
planning system is based on the functional departments. All the functional departments access the
same information when making decisions and solving problem. The examples of the
department are purchasing , accounting & financing , human resource
,inventory , manufacturing , and marketin & sales. This are the examples of the chart that shows
the all information being given to all departments .
Example of ERP systems as automate business process to order
fulfillment are first, when a CSR takes
an order from a customer, he or she has all the information necessary to
complete the order (the customer’s credit rating and order history, the
company’s inventory levels, and the delivery schedule. Second, since the
company is using an ERP, every one else in the company will automatically see
the information that the CSR types into the ERP system. Thirdly, when one
department finishes with the order, it is automatically routed via the ERP
system to the next department and lastly, to determine where an order is at any
point in time, the user only needs to login to the ERP system and track it down.
In the real of business ERP, we can conclude that JAYA JUSCO is the one of the company that used this system. It will automatically update when every time jaya jusco customers buy the product from the company. The system will directly informs to the manufacturing department to restock the product and every purchases that make by customer the system will calculate how much the cash flows in and out to the finance department and straight to the head quarters to that company. Besides that, when the sales of the product in the company was decrease it automatically informs to the planning and marketing department to actively involves in planning process to make the promotion.
Plan : this is the strategic portion of supply chain management. A company must have a plan for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for products or services. A big pieces of planning is developing a set of metrics to monitor the supply chain so that it is efficient, costs less, and delivers high quality and value to customer.
Source:
The companies must carefully choose a really reliable supplier so
that they can delivers goods and services on time. The company also must
develop a set of pricing, delivery, and payment processes with suppliers and
create metrics for monitoring and improving the relationships.
Make:
This is the
step where companies manufacture their products or services. This can include
scheduling the activities necessary for production, testing, packaging, and
preparing for delivery. This is by far the most metric-intensive portion of the
supply chain, measuring quality levels, production output, and worker
productivity.
Deliver:
Commonly referred to as logistics. Logisticsis the set of processes that plans
for and controls the effective transportation and storage of supplies from
suppliers to customer.Companies must be able to receive orders from
customers,fulfill the orders via a network of warehouse,pick transportation
companies to deliver the products,and implement a billing and invoicing system
to facilitate payments.
Return : this is typically the most problematic step in the supply chain. Companies must create a network for receiving defective and excess products and support customers who have problems with delivered products.
This is the one of the business intelligence that world introduce to others. This helpful trash-eating robot prototype rolled through the
streets of Peccioli, Italy this summer, chomping trash and recyclables. Just like a real life wall-e the bot gathers the rubbish and turn it into recyclable, organic (hope to be composed) and waste.
It’s not
just only put this fancy little guy on the streets without any use of it. Trash
robot like this are being slightly consider as a practicable alternative to
huge, inefficient garbage truck that always can’t fit down narrow some streets.
This make the garbage robotic is being us systematically. Thus can keep the
street always clean. They also can save energy and pollution, while hopefully
helping to cut down on littering. The bots could be called to action with a
citizen’s cell phone, as well as going door-to-door and identifying “customers”
with a unique PIN. The DustCart is still a while from actually going to work on
the crowded streets, but looking at urban waste management solutions like this
one is a huge step forward for cities all around the world.
It will make the street always clean as the robot is being used to eat the waste. This kind of business intelligence is enviromental robot. Thus , can make our earth clean from many garbage or waste.
Google Cars Drive Themselves,in Traffic
The car (Toyota Prius) is a project of Google, which has been working in secret but in plain view on vehicles that can drive themselves, using artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human driver.
With someone behind the wheel to take control if something goes awry and a technician in the passenger seat to monitor the navigation system, seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only occasional human control. One even drove itself down Lombard Street in San Francisco, one of the steepest and curviest streets in the nation. The only accident, engineers said, was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light.
Autonomous cars are years from mass production, but technologists who have long dreamed of them believe that they can transform society as profoundly as the Internet has.
Robot drivers react faster than humans, have 360-degree perception and do not get distracted, sleepy or intoxicated, the engineers argue. They speak in terms of lives saved and injuries avoided — more than 37,000 people died in car accidents in the United States in 2008. The engineers say the technology could double the capacity of roads by allowing cars to drive more safely while closer together. Because the robot cars would eventually be less likely to crash, they could be built lighter, reducing fuel consumption. But of course, to be truly safer, the cars must be far more reliable than, say, today’s personal computers, which crash on occasion and are frequently infected.
The Google research program using artificial intelligence to revolutionize the automobile is proof that the company’s ambitions reach beyond the search engine business. The program is also a departure from the mainstream of innovation in Silicon Valley, which has veered toward social networks and Hollywood-style digital media.
During a half-hour drive beginning on Google’s campus 35 miles south of San Francisco last Wednesday, a Prius equipped with a variety of sensors and following a route programmed into the GPS navigation system nimbly accelerated in the entrance lane and merged into fast-moving traffic on Highway 101, the freeway through Silicon Valley.
It drove at the speed limit, which it knew because the limit for every road is included in its database, and left the freeway several exits later. The device atop the car produced a detailed map of the environment.
The car then drove in city traffic through Mountain View, stopping for lights and stop signs, as well as making announcements like “approaching a crosswalk” (to warn the human at the wheel) or “turn ahead” in a pleasant female voice. This same pleasant voice would, engineers said, alert the driver if a master control system detected anything amiss with the various sensors.
The car can be programmed for different driving personalities — from cautious, in which it is more likely to yield to another car, to aggressive, where it is more likely to go first.
Christopher Urmson, a Carnegie Mellon University robotics scientist, was behind the wheel but not using it. To gain control of the car he has to do one of three things: hit a red button near his right hand, touch the brake or turn the steering wheel. He did so twice, once when a bicyclist ran a red light and again when a car in front stopped and began to back into a parking space. But the car seemed likely to have prevented an accident itself.
When he returned to automated “cruise” mode, the car gave a little “whir” meant to evoke going into warp drive on “Star Trek,” and Dr. Urmson was able to rest his hands by his sides or gesticulate when talking to a passenger in the back seat. He said the cars did attract attention, but people seem to think they are just the next generation of the Street View cars that Google uses to take photographs and collect data for its maps.
The project is the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun, the 43-year-old director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Google engineer and the co-inventor of the Street View mapping service.
In 2005, he led a team of Stanford students and faculty members in designing the Stanley robot car, winning the second Grand Challenge of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a $2 million Pentagon prize for driving autonomously over 132 miles in the desert.
Besides the team of 15 engineers working on the current project, Google hired more than a dozen people, each with a spotless driving record, to sit in the driver’s seat, paying $15 an hour or more. Google is using six Priuses and an Audi TT in the project.One way Google might be able to profit is to provide information and navigation services for makers of autonomous vehicles. Or, it might sell or give away the navigation technology itself, much as it offers its Android smart phone system to cellphone companies.
But the advent of autonomous vehicles poses thorny legal issues, the Google researchers acknowledged. Under current law, a human must be in control of a car at all times, but what does that mean if the human is not really paying attention as the car crosses through, say, a school zone, figuring that the robot is driving more safely than he would?
And in the event of an accident, who would be liable — the person behind the wheel or the maker of the software?
“The technology is ahead of the law in many areas,” said Bernard Lu, senior staff counsel for the California Department of Motor Vehicles. “If you look at the vehicle code, there are dozens of laws pertaining to the driver of a vehicle, and they all presume to have a human being operating the vehicle.”
The Google researchers said they had carefully examined California’s motor vehicle regulations and determined that because a human driver can override any error, the experimental cars are legal. Mr. Lu agreed.
A "cybernetic human"
HRP-4C
A robot that designed to look like an average
Japanese woman, looks surprised, opening its mouth and eyes in reaction during
a demonstration in Tsukuba, near Tokyo, Monday, March 16, 2009.
A new walking,
talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down
to 95 pounds to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn't cleared
safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models.
Developers at the National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, a government-backed
organization, said their "cybernetic human," shown Monday, wasn't
ready to help with daily chores or work side by side with people — as many hope
robots will be able to do in the future.
"Technologically, it hasn't
reached that level," said Hirohisa Hirukawa, one of the robot's
developers. "Even as a fashion model, people in the industry told us she
was short and had a rather ordinary figure."
For now,
the just over five-foot-two black-haired robot code-named HRP-4C — whose
predecessor had weighed 128 pounds — will mainly serve to draw and entertain
crowds.
Developers
said the robot may be used in amusement parks or to perform simulations of
human movement, as an exercise instructor, for instance.
HRP-4C
was designed to look like an average Japanese woman, although its
silver-and-black body recalls a space suit. It will appear in a Tokyo fashion
show — without any clothes — in a special section just for the robot next week.
The robotic
framework for the HRP-4C, without the face and other coverings, will go on sale
for about 20 million yen ($200,000 US) each, and its programming technology
will be made public so other people can come up with fun moves for the robot,
the scientists said.
Japan
boasts one of the leading robotics industries in the world, and the government
is pushing to develop the industry as a road to growth. Automaker Honda Motor
Co. has developed Asimo, which can walk and talk, although it doesn't pretend
to look human.
Other
robots, like the ones from Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science
and Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University, have more human-like faces and have
been tested as receptionists.
A "Child-robot with Biomimetic Body"
or CB2
A bald,
child-like creature dangles its legs from a chair as its shoulders rise and
fall with rythmic breathing and its black eyes follow movements across the
room.
It's not
human -- but it is paying attention.
Below the
soft silicon skin of one of Japan's most sophisticated robots, processors
record and evaluate information. The 130-cm (four-foot, four-inch)humanoidis designed to learn just like a human
infant.
"Babies
and infants have very, very limited programmes. But they have room to learn
more," said Osaka University professor Minoru Asada, as his team's 33
kilogram (73 pound) invention kept its eyes glued to him.
The team
is trying to teach the pint-sizedandroidto think like a baby who evaluates its
mother's countlessfacial expressionsand "clusters" them into basic categories,
such as happiness and sadness.
Asada's
project brings together robotics engineers, brain specialists, psychologists
and other experts, and is supported by the state-funded Japan Science and
Technology Agency.
With 197
film-like pressure sensors under its light grey rubbery skin, CB2 can also
recognise human touch, such as stroking of its head.
Therobotcan record emotional expressions using
eye-cameras, then memorise and match them with physical sensations, and cluster
them on its circuit boards, said Asada.
Artificial intelligence learning capabilities were recently covered in a TV show I watched about technological advancements which posed the question what the future might hold for us. ASIMO is perhaps one of the most famous, advanced robots that have been developed in Japan that are currently out there . it was primarily known for being one of the first and best robots to actually walk on two legs like humans, even climb stairs. This creation will help our company especially in packaging process . It is also helps our company in arranging the accessories in our store . Thus , can help to keep costs to hire new employees to manage the stocks in our store .
It's only 10 simple question , so grab a pencil and paper ,
keeping track of you letter answer. Just simple question! Have fun with it! :D
1. When do you feel your best?
(a) in the morning
(b) during the afternoon & early evening
(c) late at night
2. You usually walk
(a) fairly fast, with long steps
(b) fairly fast, with short, quick steps
(c) less fast head up, looking the world in the face
(d) less fast, head down
(e) very slowly
3. When talking to people you
(a) stand with your arms folded
(b) have your hands clasped
(c) have one or both your hands on your hips
(d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking
(e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair
4. When relaxing, you sit with
(a) your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side
(b) your legs crossed
(c) your legs stretched out and straight
(d) one leg curled under you
5. When something really amuses you, you react with
(a) a big, appreciative laugh
(b) a laugh, but not a loud one
(c) a quiet chuckle
(d) a sheepish smile
6. When you go to a party or social gathering you...
(a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
(b) make a quiet entrance so everyone notices you
(c) make the quietest entrance, trying to stay unnoticed
7. You're working very hard and you're interrupted.
Do you...
(a) welcome the break
(b) feel extremely irritated
(c) vary between these two extremes
8. Which of the following colors do you like the most?
(a) red or orange
(b) black
(c) yellow or light blue
(d) green
(e) dark blue or purple
(f) white
(g) brown or gray
9. In those last few moments before going to sleep,
you lie..
(a) stretched out on your back
(b) stretched out face down on your stomach
(c) on your side, slightly curled
(d) with your head on one arm
(e) with your head under the covers
10. You often dream that you are...
(a) falling
(b) fighting or struggling
(c) searching for something or somebody
(d) flying or floating
(e) you usually have dreamless sleep
(f) your dreams are always pleasant
POINTS
Use this table to calculate your point :
QUESTION
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RESULTS
NOW ADD THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POINTS:
Over 60 points: Others see you as somebody they should
"handle with care" You're seen as vain, self-centered, and who is
extremely dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you,
but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.
51 to 60 points: Others see you as an exciting, highly
volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make
decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you bold and
adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances
and enjoys adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the
excitement you radiate.
41 to 50 points: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming,
amusing, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of
attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They
also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always
cheer them up and help them out.
31 to 40 points: Others see you as sensible, cautious,
careful and practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest.
Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's
extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in
return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your
trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over it
if that trust is ever broken.
21 to 30 points: Your friends see you as painstaking and
fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful... A slow and steady
plodder. It'd really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on
the spur of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from
every angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is
caused partly by your careful nature.
Under 21 points: People think you are shy, nervous, and
indecisive someone who needs looking after, who always wants someone else to
make the decisions and who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or
anything. They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don't exist.
Some people think you're boring. Only those who know you well know that you
aren't.
