Introduction Huffman Trucking is in need of a system to help maintain its large trucking fleet’s maintenance‚ purchases‚ and vehicles. What is being purposed is a relational database that will greatly improve the record keeping for its fleet. This system will allow for reports to be generated to ensure that all vehicles have been properly maintained and record the daily operations of the maintenance department. The types of reports that can be generated are: * Parts Inventory Purchase
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As pointed out previously‚ Huffman Trucking has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years. Our huge trucking fleet and large number of employees exceed the usual numbers for a privately held trucking company. The growth of our company has become so significant that we must now face the issue of expanding our business. Even though our expansion can be done in many ways‚ our financial team has narrowed down our expansion options to becoming a publicly shared company (through an IPO)‚ acquiring
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Huffman Trucking Network Systems (Your name) Network and Telecommunications Concepts Teacher Name Your date Telephone and Data Networks The corporate main office is in Ohio. The office at this location uses Avaya Digital Phone System and is connected to a Cisco 10 MB Hub. All equipments in this location get access to the Avaya Digital Phone System through the 10 MB Hub. The plant at the Ohio location has set up different workstations; each workstation has a wireless bar code‚
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Huffman Trucking GPS Tracking System BSA/310 August 20th‚ 2011 Huffman Trucking GPS Tracking System Background Huffman Trucking has mobile assets that include 800 road tractors‚ over 2100 trailers‚ and 260 roll-on/roll-off units. Huffman employees 925 drives and 425 support staff across several states. The lifeblood and backbone of Huffman is the efficient and timely pickup/delivery of goods‚ and keeping their trucks rolling on the road fully loaded for the outbound/return leg of the trip
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Huffman Trucking Data Warehouse Jason Raines DBM/502 06/26/2014 Anup Majumder Huffman Trucking Data Warehouse Huffman trucking was founded by K Huffman in 1936 with a single tractor trailer. The massive and fast growth of the company was a direct result of WWII because of the increase in carrier services east to west. “By 1945‚ the fleet had increased in size to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. The business relationship forged with the U.S. Government continues today” (Apollo Group‚ 2012).This growth
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Falls Service Request SR-ht-003 Change Request 3 Huffman Trucking is a large company and has been around since the early 1900’s. When the company started there was one tractor trailer and now the corporation has seen quite an extensive progression throughout the years. With several types of trailers and large employee base the company has spread out and has facilities located all across the country from New Jersey to California. Huffman Trucking Company consulted with another company known as Smith
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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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The Huffman Trucking Company was founded in 1936 with only one tractor-trailer. The Company grew because of World War II; it boosted the need for carrier services between factories in the Midwest to ports on the East Coast. In 1945‚ the business had grown in size to 16 tractors and 36 trailers. They still have a business with the U.S. Government today. Huffman Tucking Company has been acknowledged as the first major freight carrier to subcontract 100% of its information systems support. The business
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Sustaining Employee Performance HRM 300 Sustaining Employee Performance Huffman Trucking is constantly re-evaluations its employee policies and always looking for better ways to serve employees and customers alike. Re-evaluating key positions within the company such as the Operational Analyst‚ and Truck Driver positions in order to sustain employee performance in these areas‚ are just some examples on how the company constantly strives to continue to be successful now and in the future. The following
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Huffman Trucking Initial Risk Assessment Introduction Huffman Trucking is a national transportation company based in Cleveland‚ Ohio. (UOP‚ 2009) The organization has 1‚400 employees and 800 trucks on the road‚ with logistical hubs in California‚ New Jersey and Missouri. The company’s mission reads: “our mission is to be a profitable‚ growing‚ adaptive company in an intensively competitive logistical services benefit environment.” The focus of Huffman’s mission is on stockholders‚ customers‚ regulatory
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