Blooming with Technology Case Study Analysis

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1IT FOR BUSINESS
Executive Summary
The purpose of the report is to identify and analyse the effectiveness of a new Point of sales
system in business. The Point of sales system eliminates the need of manual record keeping
thereby enhancing the accuracy of the reports. The report cites an example of the Four Seasons
Greenhouse and Nursery that is largely benefited by the implementation of the new point of sales
system as it considerably helped the organization in proper estimation of the inventory and
tracking of sales. The POS completely revolutionized the operation of the organization thereby
providing it a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The report provides an overview of the
advantages, disadvantages and associated risks of the new POS.

2IT FOR BUSINESS
Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
1. Advantages and Disadvantages of POS system...............................................................3
2. The Competitive advantage of the Business....................................................................5
3. Advantages of having a centralized database..................................................................6
4. The POS in facilitating decision-making.........................................................................7
5. Telecommunication options.............................................................................................8
6. Business Risks.................................................................................................................9
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................9
Recommendations..............................................................................................................10
References..........................................................................................................................11
Appendix............................................................................................................................13
Appendix 1.....................................................................................................................13
Appendix 2.....................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery of Colorado is a small business organization
that has been profited by the introduction of new point of sale system in the year 2008. The
system compiled all the essential business data for improving the decision making process of the
Nursery. The point of sale system allowed the owners to track the business data and sales
transaction in real time that helps in enhancing the estimation process (refer to appendix 1). This
system has considerably helped the organization in increasing the amount of profit as previously,
with the system of manual record keeping the amount of profit of the nursery was negligible. The
timely availability of the product information helps in proper maintenance of the inventory
(Laudon and Laudon 2016). The report gives an overview of the different advantages,
disadvantages and risks associated with the new point of sales system.
1. Advantages and Disadvantages of POS system
The advantages of the new point of sales system are as follows (refer to appendix 2)-
1. The new point of sale system eliminates the need of manual tracking of the sales by
allowing the owners to track the transactions immediately. Therefore, the new point of sales
system makes the tiresome process of compiling the sales history considerably simple.
Furthermore, it eliminates the possibility of error in updating the sales details manually (Stadtle
2015).
2. The new point of sales system increases the accuracy of the financial data of the
system. With the implementation of the system, the manual entry of the sales transactions is
eliminated as well. This reduced the number of errors in calculation of the financial data and
associated with the sales.