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Showing posts with label DSS system. Show all posts

Geographic Information System

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Geographic information system is a special category of DSS that use data visualization technology to analyze and display data for planning and decision making in the form of digital maps. The software can assemble, store, manipulate and display geographically referenced information tying data to point’s lines and areas on a map. GIS thus can support decisions on geographic issues like:

  1. Identifying the best site to locate a branch office based on number of households in a neighborhood.
  2. Targeting pockets of potential customers in a particular market area.
  3. Repositioning promotions and advertising based on sales.
  4. Determining the optimal location of a new distribution outlet. Read More   


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DSS Applications

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Decision Support System uses in many types of applications. It can be use in supply chain management in any organization. Now discuss about DSS for supply chain management.
Supply chain decisions involve determining who, what, when, and where from purchasing and transporting materials and parts through manufacturing products and distributing and delivering those products to customers. Supply chain management system contains data about inventory and logistics of materials and finished goods.
In the year of 1994 IBM research developed an advanced supply chain optimization and simulation tool called the asset management tool to reduce inventory levels, yet maintain enough inventory in the supply chain to respond quickly to customer demands. Read More

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Components of Decision Support System

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There are a lot of components of decision support system and these are very complex but all of these share specific features. Normally a typical decision support system has three components. These are as follows:

Database management: The decision support system database is a collection of current and historical data from a number of application or groups. It may combine with organizational data, external data and data from transaction processing system.

Model/Tools management: The decision support system model/tools contain the software tools that are used for data analysis. It may contain various OLAP tools, data mining tools, or a collection of mathematical and analytical models that easily can be made accessible to the DSS user.

User interface management: Decision support system user interface permits easy interaction between users of the system and the DSS software tools. A graphic, easy-to-use, flexible user interface supports the dialogue between the user and the DSS. Read More

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What do you mean by DSS?

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A decision support system is highly flexible and interactive IT system that is designed to support decision making when the problem is not structured. Decision making is one of the most significant and very important activities in business. In business, decision making has four distinct phases like intelligence, design, choice, and implementation. Decision support system provides users with flexible sets of tools and capabilities for analyzing important blocks of data. Read More

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