Huffman Trucking Huffman Trucking‚ a major national freight carrier has encountered tremendous growth over the past few years. The company now has over 1300 employees‚ 800 road tractors and 2100 trailers. The company has a diverse customer base and shipping ability. Management has realized that the company’s automated information systems infrastructure is lagging. To solve this problem management has decided to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Customer sales‚ orders‚
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Virtual Organization System Inventory Timothy L Welty BSA310 October 27‚ 2014 Peng Virtual Organization System Inventory Assignment: Select one of the following Virtual Organizations: Huffman Trucking Complete the following chart‚ filling in information for each system used at the Virtual Organization. Add rows to the chart as necessary. Huffman Trucking “Huffman trucking is a national transportation company. The company’s 1‚400 employees work in its logistical hubs located in Los Angeles‚ California
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Huffman Trucking James Roswell University of Phoenix BSA/310 Instructor: Eric Wilson November 11‚ 2010 Introduction Huffman Trucking Company was created in 1936 with a single tractor-trailer. There growth is due to World War II and the U.S. Governments demand for carrier services for factories in the Midwest to ports on the East Coast. In 1945‚ there growth increased to 36 trailers and 16 tractors. There growth is due to internal sales with the acquiring of five Eastern regional carriers
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Running head: Huffman Trucking Operating Systems Huffman Trucking Operating Systems University of Phoenix CSS561 Huffman Trucking Operating Systems Huffman Trucking is a national trucking firm with offices in California‚ Missouri‚ New Jersey and Ohio. Most of the systems at all the offices are Windows based‚ utilizing Windows NT‚ Windows XP‚ Windows 2000 servers‚ Microsoft Exchange and IIS. The Missouri office utilizes a mixed windows and Macintosh environment. The mixed environment
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Huffman Trucking Infrastructure Assessment Huffman Trucking is first major freight carrier that has managed to grow tremendously over the past few years (Huffman Trucking‚ 2008). The company has 925 drivers‚ 425 support personnel‚ 800 road tractors‚ and 2100 trailers. The organization offers various customers base and distribution capacity. The mission of Huffman Trucking is to increase the profit and become a growing‚ and adaptable company. Huffman Trucking plans to leverage the automated information
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PROBLEM SOLUTION: HUFFMAN TRUCKING Problem Solution: Huffman Trucking Nowadays‚ companies should decide to always manifest effective customer-centricity philosophy‚ building a strong internal marketing culture and enhancing the market’s influence on other entities throughout their organization. This will set the stage to inform them of how and when the time is right to make the necessary changes for the survival and growth of the business. Huffman Trucking is a trucking company in the services
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Huffman Trucking Information Systems Security Review and Upgrade Background and Statement of Need An increasing growth of the Huffman network infrastructure and architecture requires review of existing network security hardware and software/application resources. This review will help to determine requirements for new systems and possible upgrades to protect Huffman Information Systems from exploitation and ensure security features are in place to combat increasing threats to customer information
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Huffman Trucking Operating Systems Huffman Trucking is a national trucking firm that was founded in 1936 in Cleveland‚ Ohio. They provide freight carrier services between the Midwest and the East Coast and have both offices and plants located in Ohio‚ California‚ Missouri‚ and New Jersey. As one of its goals‚ Huffman Trucking would like to be the industry leader in using its technology to the maximum efficiencies when providing their customer service and doing their day to day business. They
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Areas of Strategic Plan: Huffman Trucking MGT/488 - Strategic Business Management and Planning December 19‚ 2011 William Funderburk Introduction The business continuity plan outlines the processes required to ensure the continuance of business during and after a disaster. The idea is not just to be able to continue business uninterrupted. But to also reestablish the full functions of the business as quickly as possible. Huffman Trucking Strategic Outline Huffman Stakeholders: Everyone
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Huffman Trucking Operating Systems ý Huffman trucking is a national transportation company with logistical hubs around ýthe nation strategically located in Bayonne‚ New Jersey‚ St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ and Los ýAngeles‚ California; with a centrally located maintenance facility and marketing ýheadquarters in Cleveland Ohio (Huffman Trucking‚ 2005). The company maintains ýdatabase records of important information‚ which include driver information‚ driving logs‚ ýdriver-moving violations‚ parts inventory
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