... an employee of Your Other Warehouse (YOW) which is a division of Home Depot, we operate on software known as AS400. AS400 is Home Depots' main system, where orders or quotes for merchandise are placed via telephone, fax, email or electronic data interchange (EDI). The company's highly developed expertise helps to maintain an important progress in the retailer market place position. The business has managed to tie together its software application (AS400) with the Home Depot stores and systems in real time (Green, 2001). Even though the use of the database management system in due course improves the company's day by day workflow there are things that can be modified in order to amplify the overall strengths of the corporation. Since there are four warehouses, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Ponchatoula, Louisiana; Las Vegas, Nevada, and Hagerstown, Maryland, that house millions of pieces of inventory of Home Depot, using the ...

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