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Business Information Systems-DQ 4

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Q For this discussion, analyze the value chain for your industry value chain. For example: having superior relationships with suppliers (through prompt payments, electronic ordering, loyalty, and so forth), the company can ensure timely delivery and high quality of raw materials. These, in turn, add value for customers by providing a high-quality product at a lower cost. If good quality and lower costs are top priorities for customers, the company knows on which parts of the value chain to focus (e.g., better suppliers to ensure quality and reduce costs, superior operations to ensure quality, better distribution to reduce costs, better after-sales service to ensure quality with warranties). So, the value chain is really about understanding what aspects of an organization’s business add value for customers and then maximizing those aspects. • Identify your primary activities • Identify your secondary activities and how those relate to processes • Create value for your organization Look at this from the perspective as if you were working in that field. Reference MIS project 1 and the initial work you have done. In your write-up address all these points, you will need to add these to your report and presentation later in this term. Requirements: This activity will provide you with the opportunity to research, analyze and synthesize current technologies and the use of those technologies in a real-world scenario as they relate to information systems.

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Amazon is the chosen company for this discussion. Amazon is the largest eCommerce in the retail industry. It dominates the online retailing market and has a significant amount of the market share. The profit-maximizing is one of the basic objectives of a business organization, but value creation is also necessary for the organization to efficiently operate in the long run. From its initial days, Amazon focuses on value creation while maintaining its profit maximization factors. The value chain analysis will help to identify the value-added and non-value added activities within an organization. Proper analysis and interpretation will help to add more value to the product or service delivered to the end-users