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A toy company is working in the India market from the last couple of years. The company has many branches within the city and outside as well. The company thinking to start its own manufacturing unit and the government is also motivating manufacturers to start manufacturing within the Indian market.

Explain various competitive dimensions in detail that company needs to rework to get better market share and achieve business excellence in the supply chain. 

Consider last month you started a new business of Electronics items. You are also thinking to start different branches of your business in your city as well as outside. To increase the revenue, you may explore the international market. In the dynamic market, you would face tough competition from different online as well as offline players during the journey. Analyze and suggest a different level of strategies that you will implement in the firm that can improve overall business profit. 

There is a multinational company XYZ that operates in the retail business. The company also launched a couple of new products with their label. Customer demand is increasing because the company has a good product mix. Whereas the level of actual performance is not that much increased. As you are appointed as supply chain manager, suggest some strategies to the organization that ultimately increase performance. 

As a major energy utility San Francisco’s Pacific Gas and Electric should have know better. Its Oracle ERP implementation had gone well, and there had been no problems of note; until it came time to test the system. Apparently, a manager had chosen a live information database to use during pre-launch testing, although no one thought that the regime would uncover any sensitive company information. Unfortunately, this was untrue, and consequently created a host of costly recovery programs, in addition to losing public confidence in the company’s brand

Brief your staff on exactly what they should do and not do. Don't get non-specialist staff to carry out non-specialist roles. How to launch the well-planned ERP system for this case scenarios. 

As a major energy utility San Francisco’s Pacific Gas and Electric should have know better. Its Oracle ERP implementation had gone well, and there had been no problems of note; until it came time to test the system. Apparently, a manager had chosen a live information database to use during pre-launch testing, although no one thought that the regime would uncover any sensitive company information. Unfortunately, this was untrue, and consequently created a host of costly recovery programs, in addition to losing public confidence in the company’s brand.

Explain the major issues to implement the different types of information system to manage the database.