CASE :IT MAKES

CENTS

SUBMITTED BY
ANKIT SRIVASTAV 19008
KATTAMURI V N S JAYARAJYALAKSHMI 19025
SHRADDHA TIWARI 19049
SOWMYASHREE 19054 Submitted to
VACHAN PRABHU 19058 Prof. Malathi Sriram
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

 99 CENTS ONLY STORES IS AMERICA’S OLDEST CHAIN OF

ONE-PRICE STORES. The chain consists of 251 stores in
California, Nevada Arizona and Texas.
 The business was started as a single store in los Angeles in
1984 by David gold.
 Between 1996 and 2003, the company stock price climbed
from $3.12 and $36.22 which is more than the competitors
stock price.
 The profit margin of 99 cents was 8.3 where the competitors
profit margin was 3.1
 Each store has a wireless local area network(wlan) and
connection to the internet.
 The time between request and implementation is very short.
 99 cents is fast In adopting IT systems than the competitors.

99 cents succeeds in reordering 60% of its inventory. The rest are one
time only close outs.

Gold dislikes spending on IT if the information it produces is not used.

However, was impressed by Adams who is IT professional and thinks
that he is the perfect choice for the company.
CONTD… In 2004, management decided to expand to Texas and build another
distribution center their.

High Jump’s software and Voxware computer technology was

implemented.

After this software installed, the picking speed and accuracy was 90%
at California and 99% at Texas.

Adams avoids implementing cutting-edge technologies.

 High Jump’s
software –For
To develop effective
the In-House warehouse
software operations to
increase
productivity.

OBJECTIVES:
Effective Real time
inventory data update
management of logistics.
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PLATFORMS USED:

Hardware platforms:
Software platforms:
 WLAN( Wireless Local Area Network)
 Web based system
 Laser Scanners  Warehouse management software
 Voxware computer  Inventory management software

 Wireless hand computer  To develop in-house software

 Voice earbud that stream instructions

 Point of sale system
INFORMATION PYRAMID:
 Inventory
Web-based management at
Ware house
system/Prioritizin the ware house
management
g the decisions- and the
-Strutured
unstructured company-Semi
structured

DECISION HIERARCHY OF THE COMPANY:

 Accuracy Clarity

QUALITIES OF
INFORMATION
Frequency Order
THEY
FOLLOWED:

Completen
Detail ess
Central information system which gives a
data base for warehouse management
i.e., row number ,section number and
from which bin it should be selected and
approved.
TYPES OF
As they has central information data base,
they can use ERP because already they INFORMATION
have available structure data which is SYSTEM USED
specially implemented for the inventory
management. IN THE
COMPANY:
As they are using an earbud that stream
instructions for central information system
they can use chat bots for the inventory
control or management.
 ELECTRONIC VOICE IMAGE PROCESSING – WEB BASED SYSTEMS – REAL
COMMANDS- INSTRUCTION WIRELESS HANDHELD TIME TRACKER
GIVEN BY CHATBOT COMPUTERS & LASER
SCANNERS-RFID

KEY TECHNOLOGIES USED IN THE SYSTEM:

QUESTION-1
 The company is on the leading edge of IT
IS 99 CENTS because the company is too small and
ONLY ON THE traditional to sustain bleeding edge
technologies.
LEADING  The strategic advantage that 99 cents has in the
business intelligence with which the company
EDGE OF IT? IS integrates proven technologies into operations .
IT ON THE  The company uses certain technologies which
will gain efficiency. Then only the company
BLEEDING implements the technology.
EDGE?
 Because the company is family-run,
QUESTION-2 decisions are made quickly.
WHAT Therefore, the time between request
CHARACTERISTI and implementation is very short.
CS OF THE The target audience is different for
DOLLAR STORE the 99cents where the other stores
INDUSTRY target neighborhoods with low-to-
MAKE IT SO medium incomes.
IMPORTANT TO
INCREASE The picking speed and accuracy i
EFFICIENCY?
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