{"id":130157,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/management-information-system-2"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:49:09","slug":"management-information-system-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/management-information-system-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Management information system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>This assignment has three deliverables to submit to Blackboard (described below):<\/strong> ERD, Access Database, and Inventory Report (PDF or Word Document)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Business problem:<\/strong> Speedy Parts, Inc. is an auto parts retail chain with three locations in Farifax (called Location 1, 2, and 3).&amp;nbsp; Each location manages its inventory independently, and the President of the company wants to improve inventory visibility across all locations.&amp;nbsp; The company needs a centralized product catalog and inventory database.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Database concept:<\/strong> You are to design a database that contains a product catalog and identifies the inventory of parts at each location.&amp;nbsp; Design your database in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Normal Form (3NF).&amp;nbsp; I provide a spreadsheet with worksheets containing the catalog and inventory at each site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1:<\/strong> Create a Chen Diagram to document an Entity Relationship Diagram.&amp;nbsp; Define your entities, attributes, and relationships between them in an ERD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2:<\/strong> Create a MS Access Database.&amp;nbsp; Add the tables, fields, primary &amp; foreign keys, and create relationships between entities as depicted in your ERD. Populate your database with the data from the provided \u201cAccess Assignment 1 Data\u201d Excel File.&amp;nbsp; You may also choose to import the given Excel file into your database to automate the Table creation and data entry.<\/p>\n<p>Create a Query (using Query Wizard) to list all the products at each location and how many are in-stock.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use a Simple Query<\/li>\n<li>Show the Part Number, Part Name, and Quantity available from each location<\/li>\n<li>Create a new field in your query called \u201cTotal Stock.\u201d Use the Expression Builder (labeled Build in the right-click menu of the field) to add the quantities of the 3 locations together.\n<ul>\n<li>Something like this-Total Stock: [Location 1 Stock]+[Location 2 Stock]+[Location 3 Stock]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Create a Report to show the part inventory (using the Report Wizard) based on your query above:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Show the part number and name.<\/li>\n<li>Show the inventory for all locations<\/li>\n<li>Example Header:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Export your Report as a PDF or Word compatible document.<\/p>\n<p>Submit all three files to Blackboard: ERD, Access Database, and Report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment has three deliverables to submit to Blackboard (described below): ERD, Access Database, and Inventory Report (PDF or Word Document) Business problem: Speedy Parts, Inc. is an auto parts retail chain with three locations in Farifax (called Location 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/management-information-system-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}