Evaluation of Point-of-Sale System at Four Season Greenhouse and Nursery

This report evaluates the Information System at Four Season Greenhouse and Nursery, including the pros and cons of the latest point-of-sale system. It also discusses the benefits of a centralized database and the role of POS in decision making. Recommended options for POS telecommunication and risks associated with POS systems are also addressed.

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Executive summary
The following report makes an evaluation of the Information System at Four Season Greenhouse and
Nursery. Further, different answers are chosen from numerous queries that are assessed. Further, the
pros and cons of the latest point-of-scale is demonstrated in the study. Moreover, it also involves the
concept of the core database and so on. Furthermore, various contributions of the innovation are
understood here for undertaking various decisions. This is performed through evaluating various
scopes of telecommunication for the system.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:......................................................................................................................................3
2. Advantages and disadvantages of the new POS systems:.................................................................3
3. Methods in which POS systems helps in achieving competitive benefits:........................................5
3. Benefits to have centralized database:...............................................................................................5
4. Process through which the POS can facilitate decision making:.......................................................7
5. Recommended options for the telecommunication for the POS system:..........................................8
6. Risks due to POS systems and securing business against various risks:...........................................9
6.1 Security:........................................................................................................................................9
6.2. Privacy:.........................................................................................................................................9
6.3. Confidentiality:...........................................................................................................................10
7. Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................10
8. References:......................................................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction:
The “Four Season Greenhouse and Nursery” at Colorado is a small kind of business. Here, the
garden center has been using manual type of registers to maintain and track the inventory and seek
products that can bring most of the profit.
In this study, an analysis is done on the Information Systems at nurseries. Here, various
answers regarding from different questions are analyzed. Here, the benefits and drawbacks of the
latest Point of System or POS are understood. It also involves the idea of the centralized database and
many more. Here, the contribution of POS to undertake decisions are analyzed with analyzing various
options of telecommunications for the POS system.
2. Advantages and disadvantages of the new POS systems:
Understanding the advantages Discussion
Rise in efficiency It is useful to save the time and then memorize
the prices of products. This is to develop the
user’s confidences.
Stock Management The present POS systems has been helpful for
all the stocks to get scanned within delivery.
This can enter to the digital database.
Accurate reports This includes the best reporting abilities of the
POS. This is to determine the trends in sales
such as seasonal variation under the product
demands.
Employee tracking Through using the determination of codes and

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types of clerk codes, every employee can get
helps. This is to get linked to specific
transactions. It is useful, instead of finding the
ways to determine the way the members can use
same type of machines (Turner and Musman
2018).
Analysis of disadvantages Discussion
Expense of web access Here, the extra befits has been coming at the
extra expense. Here, one requires to pay Internet
access to registers and monthly fees to the
providers.
Updating Apart from the costs and complications coming
with those updates, one requires the investment
on updates in hardware also. Here, the updates
has been resulting in important expenses that is
supposed to be the investment to bring long-
term outcomes (Okokpujie et al. 2018).
Security risks Though most of the providers of POS stations
has been providing essential protection for
security, they has been never negating the risk
of security totally. It has also involved the
convenience to make the system broadly
accessible for particular danger levels.

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3. Methods in which POS systems helps in achieving competitive benefits:
The POS system has indicated that the process in which all the stores are aware of the time to
order extra stock. Every time any aspect is sold, the POS system updates the servers and the
changes in inventory amounts. It is seen that the POS has been serving as the place for transaction
and checkout. Further, the POS has the ability of tracking the internal stocks and the schedule
replacement of the stocks coming from various additional sources. At this place, the managing of
inventory has been a vital part of the overall information system. This is basically about
particularizing the size and placement of various stored goods (Kabir and Han 2016). Apart from this,
it is also required at different locations of the supply chains. This has encompassed various elements
like carrying the cost of inventory, inventory forecasting, demands, inventory valuation,
replenishment lead time, forecasting of time, visibility of inventory, return of different defective
objects with quality management. Balancing the processes effectively is a constant process. The
reason is that the inventory is been fluid and ever changing (Nwatu and Ezeh 2017).
3. Benefits to have centralized database:
Advantages Discussions
Developing the data
preservation
The core databases has been developing the preservation. Further, they
have been included in efficient set-up of tolerating faults and redundant
storage to preserve the information. It has been taking place as any high
catastrophic failure of the hardware is under the hard drive.
Developing the
physical security
Different types of locally stored databases has been referring to the
existing physical risk of protection (Sicari, et al. 2016).
Development of
physical security
Here, the core storage of database and suitable server room blocks has
been setting direct access. This is for the single location and least number

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of people.
Improving data
security
As the business are found to be maintaining high quantity of sensitive
data of consumers, the data protection is a mission critical issue.
Delivering of the data security within the core storages of databases leads
to the development of lesser changes. This is to assure the security across
different sites of local storages (de Rubens, Noel and Sovacool 2018).
Apart from this the data policies has restricted damages. This is consisted
of various platforms of computers. It is same for deploying the networks
that are encrypted, virtual and private. This also involves rigorous
protection of passwords with firewalls.
Cost reductions Various centralized storages have required the business to invest highly
on the technology of servers. This also involves the fault tolerances.
Nonetheless, it has been helpful to cut the entire costs. Besides, the
maintenance of the core server has been referring to lesser cost than to
maintain the different machines.
Enhanced reliability
and speed of updating
The core storage employs has greater quality of components and
redundancy. It has been making that notably more dependent on the local
storage. Here, the storage to the centralized database has been facilitating
virtualizations. This has been delivering the comprehensive access to
information. It has required from any place over the globe (Margraf,
Lange and Otterbein, 2016).
4. Process through which the POS can facilitate decision making:
The processes are explained hereafter.

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Making the market effective:
The email marketing is a valuable method to promote the products and services. Through
integrating to POS, one can simply boost the business. This is through identifying the basic trends in
the customer history. Further, the CRM data for OS in targeting specific group of clients. This is to
gain insights to most effective manner. This is to reach and make capitalizing for buying habits.
Putting close eye on the essential margins:
For analyzing the performance there is no necessity to wait till the end of quarter or month.
Further, setting the regular margins for the aims of gross benefits and to fetch that to achieve that
must be clos with the business is important (Kühn, Strelow and Gallinat 2016). Rather, POS has been
useful to assess the reason and find the opportunities for using the average sale.
Rethinking about the sales floor:
Hence, it is required to find whether the business can feature over the profitable items. This is
notably effective under the store. Apart from that the cloud based POS software has been allowing the
determination of the products to make easily to earn the utmost income. It is helpful to know exactly
what order is required through finding the scopes to encourage the customers to buy them.
Making the purchase with the insights:
Extra inventory has been the man profit of draining. This is specifically through the slow-term
items that has been considering the real estate. With help of the analysis through sales reporting and
the data regarding the inventory smart decisions can be done. It is all about how much any individual
can buy for all the products carried and totally phased out (Robertson et al. 2019).

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5. Recommended options for the telecommunication for the POS system:
These are highlighted below.
LAN:
The POS terminals has been connected to the servers of the POS. This is through the LAN for
supporting the protocols such as TCP/IP and different UD for data transfer. To use the options of the
connections for the POS terminal is been interconnected to the router of LAN. This has been set up
for sending the POS operations for the data in the LAN. Moreover, LAN router has been getting that
to connect to the POS server (Chuang 2018).
WAN:
This has been a secure and quick mode for making data transmission taking place among the
networks. Here, data transmission is reliable and inexpensive. Here, one can use the WAN to access
the distant support agents to download logs and run various uses. This is to analyze the potential
concerns. One can also use for the distant administration such as programming and uploading the
current parameters of POS through the help of Q-Prog. Thus one is able to call the reports and
analyze the information from home or office.
MAN:
Here, most of the popular brands of the POS hardware has been supported by the help of
MAN. This is also useful for controlling the inventory of stocks. This is to maximize the return on
capital. Further, the invoices and statements has been sent to the clients simply and very quickly with
the e-mail. Further, the cash flow has been helpful to monitor and the accounts are used for
developing the economic performances (Flores, Cruz and Antolin 2018). Apart from that, the POS
has been simply for using the software at different levels of access for all types of users.

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Wired media:
It is a specific and easy-to-use terminal of line. The secure and reliable POS terminals has
been contactless. It has been helpful and included conveniently to the POS systems. Here, one accept
the major credits and debit cards such an American Express JCB, UnionPay, Visa and Master Card.
In this way one can accept different kinds of payments such as countless chip cards and cards of
magnetic stripes (van Laere et al. 2017). Apart from this, it has been helpful to deliver the
connectivity for fast transaction processing such as dial-up connectivity scopes across the line of
telephone as effective backup.
6. Risks due to POS systems and securing business against various risks:
6.1 Security:
The vendors has been managing the keys of encryption having no module of hardware
security. Then the business networks has been with un-segmented data of POS. Further, there are
issues with the default manufacturer passwords (von Zadow, Siegel and Dachselt 2015).
6.2. Privacy:
Regarding privacy there is the connection reliability and risk of personal data getting exposed
to outside.
6.3. Confidentiality:
Here phishing is a primary concern. For this Four Seasons Greenhouse and nursery has turned
into the victim of breach. It has been taking place as any staff unintentionally falls for any scam
(Muyo, Balute and Gonzales 2017).

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7. Conclusion:
The use of “Information Technology” is essential of any type of business. It is seen that the
small business gains benefits through the positive impacts through embracing information
technology. The Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery has required the latest POS system. This is to
evaluate the experience of customers and the activities to be provided by them. The updating is
performed over databases that has been running over core storages. It is done through all the end-
users, similar to local storages. This is same as the applicable to specific computers. . It takes place
especially as the business operates under different locations. The centralized storages has been also
decreasing the entire space needs. This is about the storages and data processing.

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