Managing Information and Technology in Boots UK Ltd.

MANAGING
INFORMATION AND
TECHNOLOGY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Overview of the company...........................................................................................................4
variety of primary and supportive and value added service........................................................7
Recommendation about variety of information technology........................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
IT refers to the development and maintenance of variety of software and system in the
Firm. It includes their use for the processing and distribution of data. Boots UK Ltd. is a health
and beauty retailer pharmacy Firm consider dealt in the United Kingdom. This report highlights
the overview of the company and variety of type of product which is offered by the company in
the market. The report explain the competitive environment of the Firm in the market. The report
highlights the primary as well as the supportive activity of the Firm in the long run. After that the
report highlights the value added services of the Firm. In the end the report explain the variety
of information technology which can be used by company to enhance the performance of the
business.
MAIN BODY
Overview of the company
Boots UK Ltd. is a health and beauty retailer pharmacy Firm consider dealt in the United
Kingdom and other neighboring country of the UK. Boots was incorporated in the year 1849 by
the founder John Boot. Boots has several stores through which they consider sell the offering of
the company.. Boots company was merged with the Alliance Uni chem in the year 2006 and was
named as Alliance Boots, which was bought by Kohlberg Kravius Robert. Kohlberg Kravius
Robert has shifted the headquarter of the Firm from Nottingham, UK to the Switzerland. In the
year 2012 Walgreen has bought 45% of share of Boots UK ltd. Thus has changes the name of the
company as Walgreen Boots Alliance Boots is one of the largest retailer in the UK. They are
having 2500 stores all across the UK to offer variety of offering (Lewis, 2017). Boots consider
employee in total of 56,000 employee in the company to carry out operaton of business.. Boots
consider operate their business at global level also. As Firm consider provide their services in
Republic of Ireland, Thailand, South Korea and Bahamas. Firm has been also involved in many
of the controversies in the past but at the same time also consider invest good amount of
resources toward the charity work in the nation.
Boots consider offer variety of the variety of range of the product in the Firm. Generally
Boots consider consider the pharmacy offering of the company, this product are generally sold
by company on the basis of perception of doctor and through their store. Also Firm sells variety
of the beauty offering of the company in the market, also has started selling electric beauty

product in the Firm i.e. hairdryers, shavers and electric toothbrushes. Not only that there are
variety of variety of product which are also sold by the companyat market placeline of the
company includes Photography, Clothing, food and drink, optical and hearing care product at the
store of the company. This all are the secondary product of the company, variety of type of
pharmacy are the primary product of the company in the market.
Porters five forces
Porters five forces is the strategic framework which is applied in the Firm to to check the
level of competition available in the industry. Porter's five forces consider look at five variety of
forces in the market, which can have a impact on the performance of the workplace. Application
of porter's five forces on Boots UK ltd. are as follows:
Threat of new entrants: Threat of new entrant in the Firm is moderate, as it has seen
that there are many few companies which consider enter the pharmacy market (O'Hara and
et.al., 2017). Reason behind the same is identified that it requires good amount of permission and
good amount of capital to enter into pharmacy industry. Same time some company consider enter
market with some innovative way to make drug or some new drugs at market place. This
eventually create a good amount of pressure on Boots to manage the same. To manage such
threat boots consider take following few step in the Firm.
 Boots consider lower down the economic of scale of company, which help firm in
lowering down the fixed cost per unit of the Firm.
 By innovating new product in the company for new customer which can be served by the
Firm. This also help company in building good product line.
Bargaining Power of Supplier: Impact of this force is very high in the pharmacy industry, as all
the Firm generally buy raw material in the Firm from the selected few supplier of the industry
(Moreno-Izquierdo, Ramón-Rodríguez and Perles-Ribes, 2016). This generally consider give the
good power in the hand of the supplier in the Firm. This eventually consider lower down the
bargaining power of the Boots in the market. To defend the variety of challenges which is
thrown by the supplier in the market.
 Boots generally consider buy the product in large quantity from the variety of supplier in
the company, this generally helps the Firm in getting discount on the purchase of raw