CHAPTER 6 VALUING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

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at different levels and in different formats and granularities . Information granularity - refers to the extend of details within the information. Employees must be able to correlate the different levels, formats, and granularities of information when making decision.

For example: If employees using supply chain management system to make a decision , they might find that their suppliers send information in different formats and granularities at different level. One supplier might send information detailed in spreadsheet when other supplier might send information in a word document. Employees will need to compare these different type of information for what they commonly reveal to make strategic SCM decisions.

INFORMATION LEVEL
Individual, Department, Enterprise.

INFORMATION FORMATS
Document,presentation, spreadsheet,database

INFORMATION GRANULARITIES
Detail (fine) summary,aggregate, coarse

Transactional Information
Contain all of the information within a single business process or unit work. The primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks.

Examples are withdrawing cash from an ATM, making an airline reservation and purchasing stock. Other examples are could include daily sales, hourly employee payroll, product orders and shipping an order.

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contain all the organizational information. The primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks. All the transactional information will be saved in database and will be use for performing operational tasks & repetitive decisions.

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also includes external organizational information. It is use to make adhoc decisions Analytical information examples include trends and sales.

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ANALYTICAL

Airlines ticket

Product statistics

DATABASE

Sales projector

Packing slip

Future growth

Sales receipt

Trends

The need for timely information can change for each business decision. 1. Timeliness An aspect of information that depends on situation. Example : Stock traders and bank require consolidated, up to the second information, 24hours a day and seven days a week . Example : Insurance and construction companies, require only daily or even weekly information.

2. Real time Information.

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immediate, up to date information. Provide real time information in response to query request. The information needs to be timely in the sense that it meets employees needs.

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