question # 1- Midterm

Name: SWREG INC.

SWREG, Inc is owned by Digital River, a trusted publicly traded company in the United States . SWREG,is a customer focused company with a cohesive team of professionals who strive to provide service excellence. The oldest online software store in the world. SWREG®, in existence since 1987, is a valuable service that was created to provide software and shareware authors the most convenient means possible of selling their products online.
SWREG® is one of the most advanced and fastest growing online software processors on the web today. it is a global e-commerce solution. Robust, flexible and customizable features and functionality make it make it easy (and painfree) to build your e-commerce business-all at a great value backed by outstanding service from SWREG.

• The concept of e-commerce is fast becoming advantageous for both the vendor and consumer in today's fast moving and electronically-connected world.
  E-commerce offers advantages that include the ability to expand into global markets with a minimum of expense, thus allowing firms to reach narrow market segments that are geographically scattered.
  
• As the Internet is a cost effective medium of delivery, the main advantage of online ecommerce is its cost efficiency. And here's why: Ecommerce decreases the cost of creating, processing, distributing, storing and retrieving paper-based information. .
• Another major advantage that SWREG companies see is the increase in sales e-commerce brings, and increased sales typically mean increased profits as well.
  Yet another advantage of moving a business online is that it allows the flexibility to target market segmentation, which in turn allows companies to focus on a select group of customers, thus having a competitive advantage in giving them what they want and satisfying unique needs.
  This benefit ties in with the advantage of 'customer customization," in which the concept of 'built-to-order', allowing for inexpensive customization of products and services and provides a competitive advantage for companies who adapt this strategy.
  
• E-commerce marketing also allow for real-time communications and the interchange of data in the supply chain, making the supply chain more effective.
  By having better visibility across the supply chain, company inventory levels can be reduced, as supplies are more predictable. With lower inventory levels, costs can once again be automatically be decreased.
  
• Lastly, this sort of ecommerce also allows information to flow freely between cooperating businesses, making it easier and simpler for organizations to share information.
  It is important to consider, however, that buyers or customers also benefit from doing their buying online. As sales opportunities expand for the vendor, they also increase the buying opportunities and power for the buyer. Many buyers choose to shop online as it provides them with an almost unlimited variety of choices from many different products and services from a wider variety of sellers.

Aileen Grace Siguenza BSC-MA3 715-815 PM

question # 6

Research one multinational corportion like procter & gamble, unilever,IBM, Microsoft, Honda & etc. Identify and describe how their subsidiaries are managed and how technology has assisted them in their corporate or local operations. further, identify one Philippine company that has gone worldwide( eg. Jollibee and bench) and describe their stategies. evaluate the stategies of foreign companies with that of Philippine corporation.

www.mcdonalds.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Drug#External_links

McDonalds Corporation is a corporate member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) and a member of our local chapter in the Chicagoland area. TL9000 Diversity Best Practices Committee, helping to write industry guidelines. Our initiative will continue to grow through our outreach activities, our strategic alliances and sharing of qualified diversity suppliers with our key customers, our involvement in local and national groups and associations, and our corporate commitment, namely "It is the right thing to do for our company and for our community

IT Directions
"They are following the US market in terms of growth, so this year, they will continue with the specific projects that have been started last year and the consolidation of the different applications, so that the stores can access the applications using the Internet.Expounding more on the network consolidation, They described that the store network is a project that allows the company-owned stores to be connected either via broadband or frame-relay. This allows the company to retrieve some information from and to the stores from the Help Desk for updates of the pricing, downloading of memos etc., as well as email exchange of information from the head office and suppliers. Easy communication provided by network consolidation also covers the local announcements from the head office to the stores. The network consolidation also allows the deployment of applications faster.
Another area for IT expansion is the consolidation of applications, focusing more on the transmission service. This works when a branch finished a store day and consolidation of all the information takes place from the store to the head office. With the store network in place, the time in generating the reports will also be faster.

In the Philippines, the company began in 1945 with a single store owned by Mariano Que. He named it after Mercury, the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology and whose staff, the caduceus, is sometimes used as a symbol of medicine.

In 1945, Mercury Drug cut packaged bulk items into individual pieces. It was called "tingi-tingi" or the selling-by-piece-retail method.
In 1963, upon the invitation of Ayala Corporation, Mercury Drug opened its second branch in May 1963 at a developing commercial center in Makati (now known as the Ayala Center).
In 1965, Mercury Drug established its landmark branch in Quiapo, Manila.

Innovations
It introduced many "firsts" in the Philippine drugstore industry:
1948: Motorized customer delivery service
1952: 17-hour, 7 days a week drugstore service
1963: Self-service drugstore
1965: 24-hours, 7 days a week service
1967: Computerized temperature-controlled central warehouse
1969: Biological refrigerators to preserve life-saving medicines
1976: Expansion throughout Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Aileen Grace Siguenza BSC-MA3 715-815 Pm

question # 5

As a future manager, What is your computer ethics program? justify each activity.
*the computer will not be used by anyone else unless he has my permission to use it
* every measure will be taken to ensure the accuracy of computer processing.