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Management Information System in Logistics Industry
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Introduction
Management information system gives emphasis to the collection, organization, analysis and distribution of information for the planning and control of business and organizational operations. Within every organization, management is required to bring together the data gathered through its functional activities and to analyze that data to help management decision making. The data obtained can come from a range of resources ( and 2004, ).
Different Management Information Systems
Electronic Data Interchange Systems (EDI)
Electronic data interchange systems represents the exchange of documents and transactions by a computer in one company with the computer(s) of one or more other companies in an open-system environment. The application of EDI involves the conversion of a written document into a machine-readable form so that a computer in one company can communicate directly with the computer of the other company ( 1999, ).
Decision Support Systems (DSS)
Essentially, an individually oriented decision support system is designed to satisfy the needs of a manager at any level in a distributed data processing environment. The system is designed to support the problem-finding and problem-solving decisions of the manager. Such a system emphasizes direct support for the manager in order to enhance the professional judgment required to make decisions, especially when the problem structures tend to be semi structured and unstructured ( 1999, ).
Executive Information Systems (EIS)
EIS is used mostly for highly structured reporting, sometimes referred to as status access. DSS has become almost synonymous with modeling and unstructured, ad hoc querying. Executive information systems are aimed at senior executives who currently have few, if any, computer-based systems to assist them in their day-to-day responsibilities. EIS brings together relevant data from various internal and external sources, delivering important information quickly and in a useful way.