Nt1330 Unit 3 Assignment

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In this assignment I am the ClO of Special Salmon, one of the largest providers of fish to restaurant chains in North America. The headquarters and the information systems division are located in Miami. Special Salmon has a fleet of more than 200 fishing boats that constantly fish the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada. Competition is keen, and it goes without saying that you have to know where the fish are located at any given time. But I also have to know which type of fish the restaurant chains are demanding and the quantity of each type of fish the chain is willing to buy. There are 52 major ports on the Atlantic seaboard and 29 on the Pacific seaboard where your boats come to unload their fish. Special Salmon has a small branch office at each of these ports.
This is a true supply-and-demand business where the demand and supply levels change daily as fish are caught and sold. The product is perishable; it must be sold quickly. Your headquarters computer center consists of a large IBM mainframe computer with more storage and processing power than you need for current operations. Each small branch office in your organization has a microcomputer that is no more than three years old; my company policy is to upgrade at least every three years. As
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Are that there are around 52 major ports on the Atlantic seaboard and 29 on the Pacific seaboard where are boats come to unload the fish. Special Salmon has a small branch office at each of these ports to collect data on how many fish they bring in, what type they are, poundage, customer, the time the fish were sold, and much more data is stored in the branch’s computer. From there they talk to headquarters and tell them all the information they need from the data they have. And that is the benefits that they have between headquarters and Special Salmon fishing