Information Systems: Evaluating Needs and Applications in Flipkart

Information System
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................2
P1.1 Evaluate the information needs of the different functional areas of an organisation..........2
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P2.1 Describe different types of Information Systems................................................................5
P2.2 Investigate the current trends in using Information Systems applications to solve business
problems......................................................................................................................................7
P2.3 Evaluate the suitability of Information Systems for different functional areas of an
organisation..................................................................................................................................9
Lo3.................................................................................................................................................12
P 3.1 Use an information system to generate valid, accurate and useful information for a given
problem......................................................................................................................................12
P3.2 Evaluate alternative methods of solving the problem.......................................................15
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
Reference.......................................................................................................................................17
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Functional areas of IS.......................................................................................................9
Figure 2: Managmeent information...............................................................................................12
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Introduction
The project is evaluated on the information system of the Flipkart organisation and its
importance in the research. The main segment of the IS was that it perform the various
managerial function for each department and identify the operational activities to server
employees. Under this project we have analysis the area of globalisation and its specification for
the functioning of the management activities by the IS managers. The various aspects are used
in the below project to identify the requirement of the Flipkart organisation. This project has
provided the techniques and tools that can be used in the organisation for growth.
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LO1
P1.1 Evaluate the information needs of the different functional areas of an organisation
The functional area of the organisation is different as the it is consider on the work and
operational activities. The various functions that are performed by the Flipkart organisation are
given below:
Finance: The management of the activities that are related to the monitoring of the cash flow
and managing the financial conduct. It is directly affect the economical condition as it deals with
the investment, creation and management of the money.
Accounts: The management of the money related functional activities of the Flipkart
organisation are done by the account department. The transactional activities such as
maintaining balance sheet, financial statements or the working that are related to the employees.
Human Resource: The management that are related to the employee performance and activities
are comes under the human resource. The main purpose of the human resource is to manage the
staff by communicating, hiring the expert and skilled candidate for the Flipkart organisation.
Stock Control: The management process that help to ensure maintenance of the stock control by
the Flipkart organisation. The stock control applied as per the demand of the customer otherwise
in case of the urgent requirement of the customer (Cockcroft, 2016).
Sales: The facts that are related to the sales, purchase and distribution of the good and service are
consider in the sales department. The sale of the product provide the generation of the profit in
the organisation.
Marketing: The promotion of the product on which the Flipkart organisation deal with are comes
under the marketing department. The activities that are performed in the organisation are creating
the new brand name, advertisement and competition analysis among the market.
Research and development: under this department the research is done on the product so the in
case of the unsatisfactory product the management can make change in the product. The
innovations of the product are considered by the researcher so that the product can be developed.
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Production: The production management refer to the production of the good and services in
which the flipchart deals with.
Distribution: The process of distributing the goods in the market is done by the distribution
management. It involve the activities that are related to the selling the good to the client and
suppliers.
Customer Services: The services that are provided for the satisfaction of the customer is
consider in the customer services.
Administration: The most important management department under which the all the
departmental activities and performance are consider by the administrator department.
Information Needed: The information which is needed for the requirement of the functional
area in the Flipkart organisation is given below:
Requirement Analysis: It is considered on the basis of the demand and reviews that are judges by
the stakeholder of the organisation it involve the two factors for the requirement analysis.
 Strategic the proper procedure that has to implement.
 Operation activities that are perform by the Flipkart organisation.
Data Requirement: The data that are actually required by the Flipkart organisation is indulge in
the data requirement few of the functions that are performed are given below:
 Input requirement is the process under which the inputs data are consider.
 Output requirement refer to the final stage of the completion of the data.
 Processing is the in between process of the input and output data requirement
(Rajaraman, 2018).
Information distribution requirement: The distribution of the information that are done by
the Flipkart organisation for the further requirements. The information transferring process is
important for the enhancement of the communication:
 Locations refer to the bifunctional requirement as it refers to the different thought along
with the area.
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