Snap-Together Visualization And Modeling Diagrams
Snap-together visualization
White Consolidated Industries is a world class corporation which has several subsidiaries such Electrolux and White Westing House. These subsidiaries manufacture household appliances and distribute them all over the world. Therefore, in order for WCI to preserve its status of world class manufacturer and to remain competitive in the domestic and international market, this corporation also strives to acquire the necessary technologies (software and hardware) as well as to adopt new procedures and workflow processes to keep up with the demands of customers, partners, suppliers and employees [1].
Electrolux is the division in charge of manufacturing vacuum cleaners and distribute them around the globe. Electrolux encompass several plants in Sweden, USA, China and Mexico. Electrolux decided to implement PoepleSoft EnterpriseOne Manufacturing system to manage all the transactions with single integrated system where all the manufacturing processes share the same inventory, material, planning, e-commerce, sales, purchasing and accounting databases [3]. However, this database system was also implemented to simultaneously integrate all the plants and departments to share information in real-time which allows management to have better decision making [2].
Consequently, with this system and its snap-together visualization capabilities enables all users to mix and match visualizations to build a custom exploration interface without need of programmers [4]. Moreover, with the implementation of this system all transactional, analytical and real-time systems capture and report customer information based on a single customer view. Every employee regardless of their department, division or geography is able to consistently see the activities of all the customers [1]. Where they can check and view simultaneously different activities such as customer orders, inventory availability, order status, customer reclamations and customer...
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