HC1041 IT for Business - Assessment of Point of Sale System for Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery

HC1041 IT for Business
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Executive summary
Information technology advancement has become a crucial part for every industry and firms.
This report is based on assessment of Point of sale system (POS) for effective organisation
operation (specifically for four season greenhouse and Nursery). The report will assess
advantages and disadvantage of POS system, competitive advantage through POS system,
centralization of database and other associated terms such as facilitation in decision making,
telecommunication through POS system and safeguarding through POS system.
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Contents
Executive summary........................................................................................................................................2
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................3
Analysis..........................................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................10
References....................................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
Information technology is key thing for maintaining organization processes and organization
data. Technological advancement has provided various systems (comprising software’s) which
are useful for maintaining costing and accounting data and managing organization processes.
This report is formed for assessment of inclusion of POS system in “Four seasons Greenhouse
and Nursery”. This is a small nursery which is situation in Colorado and the organization is
currently working majorly manually for handling its costing and accounting details. This
organization is maintaining its manual register for recording financial transactions (sales) and
other cash entries. The company put in high efforts for maintaining data manually and this lead
to delay in effective management operations.
With such background, this report will analyse the benefit of inclusion of POS system in the
organization. POS is a system which keep proper track of sales transactions, it also maintain the
track of inventory and also stores operational data for long term view and for making any
possible changes. Thus, there will proper analyses about the pros and cons of POS system for
four season’s greenhouse and analyses of facilitation of it for effective management.
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