POS System for Business: Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery

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POS System for business
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Executive summary
Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery is a small business located in Colorado. . The company uses
the manual registers. They use the registers to track their inventory and to earn more productivity.
They decide to adopt information system to manage the inventory and manage the resources of the
business. The point-of-sale system in the system will allows the owners to track the sales transaction
data. The report illustrates the pros and cons of the POS. In the report, POS includes the idea of the
centralized database, the contribution of database in the decision making. Recommendations have
been made in the report which will help Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery to conduct the
business efficiently.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:..........................................................................................................................................3
1. Advantages and Disadvantages of new POS systems:......................................................................3
2. Ways in which POS system help business gain competitive advantages:.........................................4
3. Advantages of having a centralized database:...................................................................................5
4. Process in which POS facilitates decision making:...........................................................................6
5. Recommended telecommunication options for POS system:............................................................7
6. Risks brought by POS system and protection of business against the risks:.....................................9
Conclusion:..........................................................................................................................................10
References:..........................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction:
Every business requires information technology to carry out the business. The small business
can be benefitted by the POS system and it has been illustrated in the report.
The Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery is the small business based in Colorado. The
garden center small business has been using the manual registers for carrying out the business
operations. They are planning to adopt information system to enhance their business and POS
system is going to offer them several useful benefits (Rahman and Ripon 2014). Four Seasons
Greenhouse and Nursery with the help of POS can track the inventory; can track the customers and
the employees.
The report explains the usage of the information system at the nursery. There are several
advantages and disadvantages of POS that has been highlighted in the report. Again, the idea of the
centraised database has been defined in the report.
1. Advantages and Disadvantages of new POS systems:
Advantages Discussion
Improved
efficiency
The POS system records the price of the inventory and the products. The
employees do not have to calculate the financial data manually
Stock
Management
POS helps to know the current available stock. The data will be entered into the
digital database. The employees can enter the data, can access the data and can
process the data with ease
Accurate
Reports
POS has the capability to identify the general sales trends such as the seasonal
variations as per demands of the stock (Rahman and Ripon 2014)