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Modern POS software built for your business
1. Powerful POS software
Turn any mobile device into a powerful point of sale. You can download the Shopify Retail POS app on any Android or iOS smartphone or tablet.
2. Customizable POS terminal
Personalize your POS system to your business. Keep your most-used apps, discounts, and products at your fingertips so you can fly through checkout.
3. Fully integrated hardware
Get the perfect POS setup, whether you’re a pop-up shop or a retail store. Shopify POS connects seamlessly with Shopify card readers and compatible hardware accessories.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a complete management software that integrates each component of your business and automates routine tasks and any relevant decision-making. By effectively managing data and helping streamline processes, an ERP revolutionizes the way you do business and helps identify areas of improvement. Although, for seamless integration, you will need to hire the services of a qualified partner to help with integration. For example, with Microsoft Dynamics, you will need a certified Microsoft Dynamics Partner.
In this article, we discuss Microsoft Dynamics vs SAP since both companies have become leaders in this field and offer some of the best in ERP implementation and integration. For this purpose, we have identified four critical elements of any ERP centered around functionality, cost, and ease of application.
Project Management in Hospitality
When managing a project in the hospitality industry, it's important to understand what drives value in the industry, the personnel involved in the industry, and how your project management approach needs to change according to the industry. The key to successfully delivering any project is fully understanding the value the project will deliver upon completion. Since the hospitality industry is heavily customer-facing and service-oriented, the project delivery will typically focus on delivering value in this area. The project manager will have to ensure tasks directly related to these areas have a greater focus. This could mean placing your best resources on these tasks, completing these tasks first if possible, or adding extra governance to ensure these tasks stay on track.
Importance of Projects to Hotels
There is no room for error in the hotel industry in relation to the majority of projects/events, as prices are agreed upon and contracted in advance, dates for events are set and cannot be altered unless from the client side, and the quality that is expected has to be provided. The results of failure could be detrimental to the hotel by gaining a reputation for poor quality, thus jeopardizing the future of the business. For these reasons - financial, operational, management, and human relations competencies are important to the industry. Managers in the hotel industry, like project managers, must be able to operate projects or events within the triangle of Time, Cost, and Performance, where performance can be scope, quality, or technology (Kerzner 2013). The strategy now also plays an important part in this triangle and in the whole process of project management, which is alluded to in the definition of project management by the PMI, and also Norrie & Walker 2004 introduce a quad constraint project model. This quad model (figure 1) looks at On-Time, On-Budget, and On-Quality and adds the additional element of On-Strategy. Within the industry, many daily functions in addition to events could be worked around this model. For example, in hotel B, there is a strategy that small events must not tie up event space. Bookings for small private events would be turned away on a regular basis, as they can interfere with larger events, creating distractions and resulting in potential risk to one of the triple constraints. This is a strategic decision to maintain the correct balance and highlights the link between strategy and the triple constraints.
Technical advice and assistance relating to the conceptual planning, designing, furnishing, and equipping of the hotel to the predetermined standards.
A detailed review of architectural plans and implementations of all facilities is to be provided for different star categories. This includes the public service areas as well as operational and functional areas like Public Areas: Rooms, restaurants, Banquet, and others / Kitchen & Ancillary Areas: Butchery, Confectionery, Garde Manger, Hot Kitchen areas, Refrigeration, and Storage, Wash Up, Gas Bank / Operational Areas: Floor pantries, Housekeeping, Maintenance, Security, Stores, Time Office Ladies & Gents Locker rooms, Staff cafeteria / Laundry: Washing, drying, pressing and storage areas / Office Space: All other office space as accounts, HRD, and other Offices.
Scrutiny and approval of preliminary concepts, schemes, perspectives, and estimates prepared by the project and making appropriate recommendations.
Optimization of existing or planned hotels.
Concept ideas for new hotels & brands.
In the digital age, organizations depend more on IT than ever before. The foundation of many IT functions -- including data storage, website hosting, emails, and software -- is server management. Without reliable, functioning servers, most IT functionality would collapse.
Many businesses have migrated internal IT to cloud services using servers located in remote data centers, but a significant number still have in-house servers or use a hybrid environment of in-house and cloud services. Regardless of location, managing a server entails monitoring and maintaining hardware, software, security, and backups.
What is vendor management?
Vendor management is the practice of enlisting vendors to help execute projects within your organization. Vendor management doesn't only start when choosing a vendor or signing a contract. It's a process that includes tracking, measuring, reviewing, and aligning their goals with your organization to ensure a profitable partnership.
The vendor agreement signed by both parties ensures your relationship is well-defined and measurable, reducing the chances of misunderstandings or a failed project. Vendor management tasks include:
- Researching and sourcing vendors
- Obtaining price quotes
- Estimating turnaround times
- Managing vendor relationships
- Maintaining the quality of work
- Assigning jobs to vendors
- Reviewing performance
- Making payments
- Reporting and KPI tracking
- Compliance monitoring
- Conflict resolution
- Risk Mitigation
What Is Project Integration Management?
Project integration management is a way of making various processes work together. This means, it takes the numerous processes that are being used in a project and makes sure that they’re coordinated.
Project integration management accomplishes this by making trade-offs. That means that you can’t have everything if you want to get the project completed on time and within budget. This is the normal operating procedure for any project manager. If there are competing objectives, then alternatives are needed to meet stakeholders’ expectations.
To achieve this means identifying, defining, combining, unifying, and coordinating the many processes and activities within the project management process groups. Therefore, project integration management involves making choices about resource allocation and trade-offs, while managing those interdependencies that are in the project management knowledge areas.
Project Management Plan
The creation of a management plan defines how the various processes in the project can work together for greater efficiency and productivity. The project charter is included in the project plan, but the definition of the project is described, as well as its objectives, budget, schedule, resources, what approach you plan to take to get the project done, risk assessment, etc. This is a formal document to help guide, control, and execute the project.
The project manager creates the project management plan, which will consolidate other management plans, such as the scope management plan, cost management plan, quality management plan, process improvement plan, human resource plan, communication management plan, procurement management plan, etc. It will include baselines, such as the schedule baseline, cost performance baseline, and scope baseline. The baseline will only change through a formal change request.
It is at this point that there will be kickoff meetings after the planning phase but before the project is executed. This forum is used to communicate the project responsibilities of its key stakeholders.
Differentiate the main types of CCTV systems
Provide instructions on how to set them up successfully
Help you set up additional features in the CCTV systems which will increase security (if such features are supported by your system).
Note that setup processes may vary depending on the brand or model of your system.
There are three most popular types of CCTV systems which are:
- Standalone IP Cameras
- Digital Video Recording Systems
- Network Video Recording Systems