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计算机英文文献翻译
计算机英文文献翻译
INDUSTTRY PERSPECTIVE
USING A DSS TO KEEP THE COST OF GAS DOWN
Think you spend a lot on gas for you car every yer?J.B.Hunt Transportation Inc.spends a lot more..J.B.Hunt moves freight around the country on its 10,000trucks and 48,000 trailers.pany spent$250 million in 2004 on fuel.That figure was up by 40 percent over the previous year.Diesel fuel is pany''s second-largest expense(drivers''wages is the largest),and the freight hauler wanted to find a way to reduce that.part of the answer lay,as it often does,in IT.
In2000,J.B.Hunt installed a decision support system that provides drivers with help in deciding which gas station to stop at for refueling.Using munications,the system beams diesel-fuel prices from all over the country straight into the cabs of the tricks.The software accesses a database with local taxes for each area of the country and then calculates for the drivers how much refueling will actually cost.
J.B.Hunt doesn''t require drivers to use this system,but provides incentives for those who do.pany estimates that the system saves about $1 million annually.
Decision Support System
In Chapter 3,you saw how data mining can help you make business decisions by giving you the ability to slice and dice your way through massive amounts of information.Actually,a data warehouse with data-mining tools is a form of decision support.The term
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