Domino's Pizza Case Analysis Domino's Pizza is a dominant competitor in the home delivery market for pizza, which averages $15B in revenue on an annual basis. Domino's was founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1960 and steadily grew to 200 stores by 1978 and 9,000 stores located in all 50 U.S. states and in 60 international markets. By 2009 the company had attained $1.5B in sales and earned a profit of $80M. Despite this rapid growth, Domino's has gained a reputation for having poor product quality, with every area of delivery through supply chain aspects of ingredients and their freshness being problematic. As a result of these shortcomings, Domino's was facing customer attrition and a reduction in sales.

IT Analysis of Domino's

The company initially began with its own proprietary Point-of-Sale (POS) system, Pulse....

This system captured customer transactions, and could be extended to support Web-based transactions for franchises through customization as well. The goal of the system was to capture transactions while also tracking which products were the most and least in demand. The advantage of POS systems include the ability to track sales in real-time while also analyzing how selling trends will impact the supply chain forecasting requirements by ingredient (Boorstin, 2005). The Pulse system was able to track sales as an input and produce usage and consumption data by supplier item as well, which helped Domino's to streamline their supply chains. This helped Domino's to anticipate customer demand and better…