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Midterm Group Project Case Study Five Abstract Assume your group will serve as a systems analysis and design team for a project designed to computerize or enhance the computerization of all business aspects of a 15-year old national U.S. trucking firm called Maverick Transport. Maverick is a less-than-a-truckload (LTL) carrier. The people in management work from a philosophy of just in time (JIT), in which they have created a partnership that includes the shipper, the receiver, and the carrier (Maverick Transport) for the purpose of transporting and delivering the materials required just in time for their use on the production line. Maverick maintains 626 tractors for hauling freight, and has 45,000 square feet of†¦show more content†¦Starting from the top which we felt had the biggest impact on the company because communication is one of the most essential components to running any business/relationship. As we noticed early in the company’s development the offices were pretty spread out because of the en ormous amount of space they had. Investigation led us to come across pictures of when they first started the company along with a lot of memos that included complaints about the level of communication, and how long it took to get responses from other coworkers and from different departments which they found out it was due to the way they initially had the offices set up. Prior to fixing that problem it led to the loss of potential customers along with delivery times missed. By this company being a just in time (JIT) organization that happening was not an option. So after six months that problem had been rectified through the change and rearrangement of offices along with desk placement. After the change took place a better level of communication was developed throughout the company to include all of the departments in the organization. As we mentioned we didn’t want to just gather information from management because we felt that would have developed a bias opinion and outlook . So we also gather information from the warehouse workers, picker/packers, dispatchers and truck drivers. Starting with the warehouse workers, the information gathered fromShow MoreRelatedBhopal Gas Tragedy : A Terrible Gas Leak1642 Words   |  7 Pagesterrible gas leak on December 2nd and 3rd, 1984 had some of the worst impacts on the central part of India. It happened in the late night and early morning hours on those days when the clouds where filled with gray smoke which contained Methyl Isocyanate(MIC), one of the most poisonous gases from Union Carbide plant in the city of Bhopal. It was called one of the world’s most dangerous environmental disasters. The people of Bhopal had no idea what was coming for them on that particular day. 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