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Business Assignment: Information Technology

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Business Assignment: Information Technology

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Running head: IT FOR BUSINESSIT FOR BUSINESSName of Student-Name of University-Author’s Note-
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IT FOR BUSINESS11.IntroductionThe company of Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery is a small nursery that is locatedin Colorado. The company presently use manual registers to keep all the details and track of thebusiness. The inventory of the nursery is also determined by manual register and the amount ofprofit the company was making. By following the manual way of tracking, the nursery was notgaining anything. Instead, the nursery was facing loss. The employees were unable to managethe operational data of their business (Galliers and Leidner 2014). To make a proper businessoperation, the Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery implemented the method of POS (Point-of-scale) in their business.This report will give the details of the POS system that will be implemented by thenursery. The nursery has many operations which they cannot track with the manual process. So,to mitigate this problem, the nursery implemented the system of POS in their business. There aremany advantages and disadvantages of POS (Point-of-Scale) that are elaborated in this report.This report also states the way POS system helps the business the gain advantage in thecompetitive market. The Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery wants to adopt a centraldatabase which gives many advantages to the company (Kavanagh and Johnson 2017). The POSsystem also facilitates the process of decision making which is elaborately discussed in thisreport. Recommendations have been given about which POS system works he best. Lastly, thesecurity of POS is discussed and the ways to mitigate them.
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IT FOR BUSINESS22. Advantages and disadvantages of POSAdvantages of POS- Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery want to implement thesystem of POS for many advantages. The advantages that are associated with the POS systemare: a.Financial Advantages: The Point-of-Sale (POS) system allows the owner of FourSeasons Greenhouse and Nursery to keep a track on the business data that are useful fromthe sales including the transaction of sale, eliminating the requirement to track the saleswhich used to be done manually (Snyder and Diesing 2015). The data that the nurserywill get from the POS will be error free and fast effective data calculations. b.Accountability: The system of POS has the ability to process the data and store the datafrom sales and updates the inventory of the nursery. The POS system also compiles thesales history. The Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery can eliminate the dependencyof the manual transactions in the operations. The track of the products that aremanufactured in the nursery can be kept in the system of POS. The shipments of theproducts can be tracked by the nursery by using the process of POS (Tsang 2014). Thesystem of POS can also help to keep the record of all the activities of employees andstaffs including their contact number and address. The company is able to investigate theactivities of the staffs. The profit and loss figure of the company can be noticed from thePOS system c.Increase Efficiency and Speed: The speed of working in the company can also be noticedby the system of POS. The employees in the nursery can also give service to theircustomers in a better way. The process of POS system enables the employees to servetheir customers in a better way.
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