Implementation of POS System for Green House Nursery

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Executive Summary
The purpose of the report is to discuss the benefits of the technology that an organization can
achieve. The Four Seasons Green House Nursery was running on a loss as the organization used
to maintain a manual record. With the implementation of the new POS system, the organization
could easily track their sales and inventory items, which in turn helped in better decision making.
The manual records are generally prone to human errors and therefore the organisation was
running on a loss or negligible profit. Therefore, implementation of an information system in
Four Seasons was mandatory.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
1. POS system-Advantages/Disadvantages.........................................................................3
2. The Competitive Advantage with POS............................................................................5
3. Centralized Database and its Advantages........................................................................5
4. POS in facilitating decision-making................................................................................6
5. Telecommunication Options............................................................................................6
6. Associated Risks..............................................................................................................7
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................8
Recommendations................................................................................................................8
References............................................................................................................................9
Appendix............................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The use of technology has become inevitable for every industry size and type of business.
The positive effects of the business can be realized even in small industries. However, the small
business organization may not have the resources and the expertise like a large organization to
implement information technology strategies. The Four Seasons Nursery which is located in
Colorado is a small business organization used to maintain manual registers in tracking and
maintaining the inventory sales and in profit realisation (Wang et al., 2014). However, with this
system, the nursery was either making a negligible profit or loss. The implementation of point of
sales (POS) system in the year 2008 however, helped the organization in eliminating the
operational inefficiencies and helped the organization in better product management. The report
discusses the advantages and the disadvantages of the new POS system that is implemented in
the Four Seasons Greenhouse nursery (Pearlson, Saunders and Galletta 2016). The use of POS
helped the organization in easier tracking of the data related to the sales and inventory items,
which in turn helped in better decision making. The following paragraphs provide the details of
the implemented point of sales system.
1. POS system-Advantages/Disadvantages
The implementation of the point of sales system helped the Four Seasons Nursery to
manage the sales, inventory and business data in an efficient manner. The point of sales system
allowed the owner in tracking useful business data that helped in better decision making. The
advantages of the point of sales system are as follows-
The new system helped in tracking the useful business data associated with the sales
transaction at the time of sale, thus eliminating the need of manually tracking the sales (Stadtler