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E-Inventori Kolej Kediaman Seksyen 17, Abdullah Ahmad Sobri

Student Works (2000-2009)

Cara penyampaian dan penyimpanan maklumat I data adalah berbeza dari masa ke semasa. Jika dahulu maklumat disimpan di dalam fail dan disusun dalam laci atau kabinet dan kebanyakan maklumat yang difailkan ini akhinya akan menjadi usang apabila disimpan terlalu lama dan himpunan maklumat yang banyak juga menjadi masalah kerana kekurangan ruang untuk menyimpan maklumat. Akhinya kebanyakan maklumat ini akan dilupuskan apabila ia tidak diperlukan lagi. Seperti mana yang telah kita ketahui, maklumat merupakan sumber rujukan yang penting dalam kehidupan harian kita. Tiada maklumat yang terlalu usang untuk dibuat rujukan. Oleh itu. teknik penyimpanan dan penyampaian data yang berkesan merupakan keperluan …

Sistem Pengurusan Kemudahan Sekolah, Farn Lok

Student Works (2000-2009)

Facility Management System (FMS) is a window-based system developed with the objectives of implementing the task of daily operation needs of small to medium size secondary school. It supports the inventory, usage and maintenance tracking, booking functionality of a typical secondary school. To maximize the effectiveness, FMS provides a computerized interface that greatly simplify information generation which enables decision maker to creatively approach, analyze and uncovering transaction problems and opportunities. Since the local architecture forms the core of the system, research was conducted into the local computing concepts. Through the course of FMS development, it is proven that management rules …

University Of Malaya's Electronic Procurement System (Umeps) Version 3.0, Wee Leng Chia

Student Works (2000-2009)

University of Malaya's Electronic Procurement System (UMEPS) is a project in association with the government's mission in implementing Electronic Government, one of the seven flagship applications under Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). It involves the automation of all business processes in the university. UMEPS is a Web-based procurement system that allows the faculties or departments in the university to electronically select items to be procured, initiate an electronic approval process and also create, submit and receive purchase orders, delivery orders and other related documents electronically. The six user groups of UMEPS include requestors, suppliers, approvers, treasurers, administrators and managers. The entire …

Bookshop Inventory Management System (Bims) /, Loong Po Chang

Student Works (2000-2009)

All undergraduates of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya are required to carry out a final year thesis project in computer or information technology related topic during their 3 years course in the university. This subject is one of the conditions must be fulfilled before they graduate. This final year thesis project takes 2 semesters and brings out 9 credit hours of total 120 credit hours. I, one of the students in the faculty, propose Bookshop Inventory Management System (BIMS) as my thesis title. I was assigned to and placed under the supervision of Prof …

Rescue 991: The Malaysian Civil Defence Emergency System, Abdul Aziz Siti Azrin

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Rescue 991 Emergency Line has emerged since a few year back and has been reserved for the use of The Civil Defence Force of Malaysia, which was first brought forth in the year 1952. The Civil Defence Force of Malaysia is a government department which handles emergency cases especially those regarding with accidents di asters and war. The Rescue 991 Emergency Line has been officially launched on the 20°1 May 1995 on the emergency line for The Civil Defence Force for Kuala Lumpur and Klang Valley. Because of the encouraging responses received in Klang Valley, the emergency line ha …

Sistem Inventori Kolej Kediaman Tun Ahmad Zaidi, Ali Ayuniza

Student Works (2000-2009)

Latihan ilmiah merupakan kursus yang ditawarkan kepada pelajar Sarjana Muda Teknologi Maklumat Universiti Malaya bagi Tahap Akhir sebagai syarat utama fakulti. Kursus ini meliputi pembangunan sistem komputer yang ditawarkan oleh pensyarah-pensyarah fakulti. Bagi latihan ini, pembangunan Sistem Inventori Kolej Kediaman (SIKK) telah dipilih dan ia tertumpu kepada Kolej Kediaman Tun Ahmad Zaidi (Kolej 10) Universiti Malaya. Kursus ini terbahagi kepada Latihan llmiah 1 dan Latihan Ilmiah 2 yang masing-masing ditawarkan pada semester I dan semester 2. Kedua-dua kursus ini adalah saling berkait, dan wajib diambil untuk memenuhi syarat latihan ilmiah. Projek ini ditawarkan oleh Puan Nor Edzan Che Nasir di …

Electronic Bookstore, Wai Yin Choy

Student Works (2000-2009)

The e-Bookstore is a web application of electronic commerce which simulates an electronic bookstore. This project will complement the traditional way of doing business in a bookstore. The University Bookstore in the University of Malaya will be the target client for this Project. The e-Bookstore will enable university students and lecturers to have a more pleasant book shopping experience by leveraging on the benefits of the Internet to provide a virtual bookstore on the World Wide Web. Users of the web site will be able to conduct basic book shopping activities like book browsing, book searching, online ordering and placing …

Sumatec's Survival Strategy In The Construction Sector Of Oil And Gas Industry, Kin Wah Phoon

Student Works (2000-2009)

The oil and gas industry worldwide is experiencing a rapid growth of demand in its petroleum products. In line with this, the growth in construction sector of oil and gas industry is relatively high too. It demands for high quality and safety standards of works and it offers premium price to its contractors. Due to the higher profitability as offered by the construction sector of oil and gas industry as compared to other general industries, many firms are striving to become one of its contractors. In Malaysia, its demand for high quality and safety standards to be performed by the …

Re-Engineering Of The Quality Assurance Process Using Work Study Methodology, Yew Hoong Chia

Student Works (2000-2009)

This project paper explores the application of Work Study methods to improve the manufacturing processes in the current semiconductor manufacturing environment. The scope of the project is narrowed down to the Quality Assurance Out-going Final Inspection (QA OFI) Gate process step at the End-Of-Line (EOL) Operations in Motorola Malaysia Sendirian Berhad. This QA OFI Gate process step had recently become a bottleneck to the total EOL operations and in need of productivity improvement. It was observed that Work Study methods were not being used extensively or applied in a systematic manner in the company being studied. Many changes were made …

Office Equipment Inventory System, Meng Hai Teh

Student Works (2000-2009)

This report was based on the final year project as a partial requirement for the degree of information technology. It’s describing the office equipment inventory system that will be developing. This report contains 4 chapters which are introduction of the project, literature review, methodology and system analysis and system design. Office equipment inventory system is a sub system of the e-Faculty project. e-Faculty project is a project that will bring faculty science computer and information technology to the electronic era. The objective of e-Faculty is to bring faculty become an electronic effective faculty. The purpose of develop the office equipment …

Preliminary Assessment Of Client Interest In And Needs Of The New England Environmental Finance Center, New England Environmental Finance Center, University Of Southern Maine

Planning

The New England Environmental Finance Center (NE/EFC) has been conceived as a knowledge-based clearinghouse, training, and change-agent program aimed at helping EPA's constituencies find financially successful approaches to environmental improvements. The NE/EFC will develop approaches to needs of particular priority in New England and potentially useful throughout the nation; share such approaches through the EFC national network; and help make tools from that network accessible throughout New England. In 1999 we began exploring with potential users how this ninth of the nation's EFCs might best address the region's needs. The assessment continued through the Muskie School's EFC proposal to EPA …

Managing A Flow Line With Single-Kanban, Dual-Kanban Or Conwip, Kum Khiong Yang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

To control the production of different parts on a single flow line, managers can choose between the Single-kanban, Dual-kanban, and Conwip. This paper therefore compares the three different systems. The results show that Conwip consistently produces the shortest mean customer wait time and lowest total work-in-process. Our results also contradict the finding of a previous study, which showed that Dual-kanban performed better than Single-kanban. The different findings can, however, be attributed to the use of a material transfer policy, which favors the Dual-kanban modeled in the previous study. Our study shows that transferring replenished containers immediately to downstream stations, increasing …

Vehicle Routing For Milk Procurement, Janat Shah

IIMB Management Review

In a typical co-operative dairy, one of the significant operating costsunder the control of the management is the cost of milk collectionand transportation. (Exhibit 1 shows the typical cost structure of adairy) The dairy under study picked up milk from 500-800 pick uppoints (nodes) twice a day. The vehicle routes were decided manu-ally keeping in mind the peak load expected at the nodes during thecoming year. The dairy had about 50 odd routes, each route cover-ing an average of 15 nodes. Usually dairies do not own the ve-hicles but use transport contractors who enter into an annual con tract with …

The Quality Movement And Organisation Theory By Robert E Cole And W. Richard Scott, New Delhi: Sage, 2000., Vijay G Vancheswar

IIMB Management Review

The Quality Movement and Organisation Theory is different from most books on quality on two main counts. Firstly, it successfully addresses the issues of organisational change and emerging management practices, and their impact on Total Quality Management (TQM). Secondly, the concepts and findings detailed in the book combine the strengths of academic research studies on TQM and the vast experience of executives from leading organisations. Though focused primarily on the practices of TQM in the US, the book is exhaustive in its treatment of the subject. Starting with a lucid introduction to the quality movement and its linkages with issues …

Yield Management In The Airline Industry, B Venkateshwara Rao

IIMB Management Review

The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 changed the competitive landscape for air travel. The CAB allowed low-cost (nonunionised and no-frill chartered service) carriers to compete in the scheduled air travel markets. Scheduled air carriers were at a disadvantage due to their high-cost structure. For example, during the winter of 1976, passengers could travel from New York to Florida on a charter for as little as $99. This fare was less than the average cost for a scheduled carrier to fly that market.

Product-Mix Optimiser For An Integrated Steel Plant, Goutam Dutta, Gopal P Singh, P N Roy

IIMB Management Review

Optimal utilisation of constrained resources is one of the most important problems in the area of operations management. The determination of optimal productmix is an extremely difficult task for an organisation producing multiple products in multiple stages, sharing a set of common plant resources and experiencing a fluctuating market over time. In the absence of a quick method to determine optimality under changing conditions, plant managers have to make decisions based on their experience and intuition. 

Optimisation: Maximising Roi Within The Supply Chain, Irvin Lustig

IIMB Management Review

Optimisation is the technology employed within a supply chain management system that can have the single greatest impact on reducing costs, improving product margins, lowering inventories, and increasing manufacturing throughput. In short, optimisation is the key to achieving maximum return on investment (ROI). According to John Bermudez of the Boston- based AMR Research, the planning and scheduling modules that depend on optimisation technology have generated 30 to 300% ROI within companies that have already used them1. And the returns should continue to rise. Bermudez called the technology a means to unlock the potential from all of the data residing in …

The Pilgrim's Progress: Operations Research In Queuing, G Raghuram

IIMB Management Review

Good management practice is synonymous with applying operations research (OR). Both imply a systematic approach beginning with clarity in problem definition, understanding the objectives and constraints, characterising the alternatives (these three steps constitute  model building), evaluating (analysing) them and finally selecting an alternative for implementation. In addition to this basic methodology, there is also an implication of a quantitative basis to the extent possible. It is this quantitative basis which lends to the common perception that good management practice is much larger than OR

Collaborative Model And Algorithms For Supporting Real-Time Distribution Logistics Systems, Hoong Chuin Lau, Qi Zhang Liu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We study a complex optimization problem that arises due to an emerging trend in distribution logistics. The problem involves the integration of an inventory management problem and the vehicle routing problem with time windows, both of which are known to be NP-hard. We describe a collaborative approach to solve this problem in real-time. The novelty of our approach lies in the tight algorithmic integration between two sub-problems, and suggests an elegant scheme to deal with other integrated optimization problems of the same nature. For first sub-problem, we will present two algorithms: a complete mathematical model integrating integer programming with constraint …

Competitive Priorities And Managerial Performance: A Taxonomy Of Small Manufacturers, Ravi Kathuria

Business Faculty Articles and Research

Much of the research in manufacturing strategy has focused on specific relationships between a few constructs, with relatively little emphasis on typologies and taxonomies (Bozarth and McDermott, 1998). Using data from 196 respondents in 98 manufacturing units, this study develops a taxonomy of small manufacturers based on their emphasis on several competitive priorities. The annual sales for sixty-four percent of the participating units in this study are below US $50 million, which is on the lower side as compared to other studies in this area (cf., Miller & Roth, 1994). The study findings indicate that different groups of manufacturers – …

Diversity Of Behaviour During Novel Object Tests Is Reduced In Pigs Housed In Substrate-Impoverished Conditions, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Marie Haskell, Michael T. Mendl, Sheena Calvert, Alistair B. Lawrence

Sentience Collection

Modern intensive farming conditions lack the diversity of substrates present in more natural environments and offer young animals fewer opportunities for interaction. Evidence exists that this may affect the organization of interactive patterns of behaviour, but shifts in behavioural diversity have not been measured directly. We investigated the effect of the substrate in the home pen on the diversity of behaviour in young growing pigs, Sus scrofa. Over 5 months, 26 pigs were housed singly in either substrate-impoverished (SI) or substrate-enriched (SE) conditions. Once every month we recorded the behaviour of these pigs in detail both in the home pens …

The Wholesale Industry At The Crossroads, Koushiki Chowdhury, Sudas Roy

IIMB Management Review

Since the late 1980s, the wholesale industry has been experiencing turbulence, What With the growth in direct buying programmes and rising imports that often bypass domestic Wholesalers and directly approach the retail shelves. Many wholesalers are gradually defining their roles as being in the marketing support business and not merely in the distnbution business. They are realising that their primary purpose is to help both suppliers and customers develop effective marketing programmes and there by remain an essential link in the channel.

The Impact Of State Taxes On The Development And Growth Of The Trucking Industry, Thomas Lambert, Hokey Min

Journal of Transportation Management

The presence of certain state taxes is believed to have a negative impact on truck registration and the location decisions of trucking firms. For example, in a metropolitan area that covers two or more states, a trucking firm might not choose to locate in the county that is in close proximity to the metropolitan area’s business districts, population centers, and largest concentration of customers, if that county is in a state that imposes the taxes. Instead, it might choose to locate in a county that belongs to another state that does not impose such taxes as long as that county …

The Use Of Edi And Internet Technologies In The U.S. Motor Carrier Industry, Richard L. Clarke

Journal of Transportation Management

Computer to computer data exchange by companies in a supply chain have been wellrecognized as an effective means of reducing cost and decreasing paperwork errors. In many cases, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers have become electronically linked to better manage inventory, ordering, and billing information. However, supply chains, by definition, also include common carriers that move goods between supply chain partners but may not have a long-term relationship with either the shipper or his customers. This could be the missing or weak link in an otherwise effective supply chain. The purpose of this paper is to examine the state-of-the-art of EDI …

The Relationship Between The Functional Orientation Of Senior Managers And Service Quality In Ltl Motor Carriers, Patricia M. Poli, Carl A. Scheraga

Journal of Transportation Management

This study utilizes data envelopment analysis to examine the relationship between the functional heterogeneity of senior LTL motor carrier managers’ departmental positions and the relative efficiency of their companies in the production of quality customer service. Three measures from the Quest for Quality annual survey are utilized to measure customer satisfaction: on-time performance, value, and customer service. It is shown that data envelopment analysis can be used to assist LTL motor carriers in benchmarking the configuration of their managerial hierarchies against their peers in order to achieve the goal of customer satisfaction. The results of the present study confirm that …

Analyzing The Evolution Of Class I Ltl Motor Carriers: An Examination Of Expansion Into Warehousing, Joe B. Hanna, Arnold B. Maltz

Journal of Transportation Management

The current research uses Porter’s differentiation strategy framework to examine Class I LTL motor carrier service expansion habits over the last twenty years. The examination focuses on carriers bundling transportation and warehousing services together to help differentiate their service offerings from competitors. Results indicate that carriers are expanding service offerings to include warehousing services and are providing significant value-added services to customers. Continuous growth in warehouse service expansion was evident from passage of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 to the mid-90’s.

An Evaluation Of Liner Strategies In The Context Of Contemporary Supply Chain Management Practices, Shashi Kumar

Journal of Transportation Management

Academic researchers published a sophisticated model of world class logistics in 1995 and recently updated it with a model of 21st century logistics. Although such practices are yet to be perfected in the real world, it provides a yardstick for measuring logistical excellence. An innovative world class firm will pursue sustainable competitive advantage through wellintegrated global supply chains. As liner operators are vital members of global supply chains, their contemporary strategies need particular scrutiny to identify elements of congruence or non-congruence. The paper discusses generic liner strategies and identifies the ideal strategy congruent with contemporary supply chain management practices.

Provision Of Professional Training To Meet Global Procurement Challenges In Hong Kong, Chi Shun, Josephine Kea

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

The technology today is so fast that quickly changes the traditional business process. Supply chain management is becoming the profession of the future – an extension of buyers’ job. New professional education in purchasing and supply management should be demanded by Hong Kong’s business world to maintain its status as a global procurement centre and a commercial window of China

Supply-Chain Synchronization: Lessons From Hyundai Motor Company, Chan K. Hahn, Edward A. Duplaga, Janet L. Hartley

Management Faculty Publications

One of the challenges of supply-chain management is developing ways to effectively integrate activities across organizations on the supply chain. Hyundai Motor Company developed mechanisms to coordinate production planning and scheduling activities among supply-chain members. Hyundai Motor's production-and-sales-control (P/SC) department uses regularly scheduled cross-functional meetings and scheduling policies to coordinate supply-chain activities. When implementing this process, the P/SC department overcame structural, environ mental, and behavioral problems. Although Hyundai manage ment concedes that the process is not perfect, communication among supply-chain members has improved, and the P/SC group has successfully promoted mutual understanding and respect among functional areas. The primary benefit, …

Commercial Irrigation And Nutrition Practices For Strawberries In Western Australia, D. Phillips, D. Gatter, T. Calder, D. Pitman

Horticulture research reports

Irrigation practices employed by five commercial strawberry growers on sandy soils of the Swan Coastal Plain near Perth Western Australia were monitored for two consecutive seasons, 1995 and 1996 during the Spring production period.

Nutritional practices for the same grower group plus one Albany grower were monitored by plant, soil and sap analysis at 14 day intervals throughout the 1996 season.

Irrigation records showed that market quality strawberries could be produced at this time of year (August to December in Perth) on soils with very poor water retention properties with an average crop factor(E Pan) for the season of 0.7 …