Point of Sale System for Four Season Greenhouse Nursery

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Point of Sale System
22 May 2018

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Executive Summary
This report is about Four Season Greenhouse Nursery and it emphasizes on the usage of Point-
of-Sale System in this nursery center. The purpose of making this report is to define the
effectiveness of POS system for an organization in the comparison of manual operations.
Moreover, this report emphasizes on the challenges that were confronted by the Greenhouse
Nursery and how this center controlled these challenges by using POS system. This business
report covers pros and cons of POS system, its usefulness for business competitive advantage, its
security risks and different ways to connect POS system with telecommunication services and it
benefits for generating appropriate business information.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Advantages and Disadvantages of POS System..............................................................................3
How will POS system help the business to obtain competitive advantage?....................................4
Advantages to use centralized database...........................................................................................4
How POS system can be used for Decision Making?.....................................................................5
Why do POS system execute business activities properly?.........................................................5
Can the manual tracking of business information be effective?..................................................5
What types of questions could be answered effectively?............................................................5
How could the information be used for better business management?.......................................6
Telecommunication options for POS system..................................................................................6
Network Types.............................................................................................................................6
Types of Media............................................................................................................................6
What kind of risks are brought by POS system and how these can be overcome?.........................7
Security........................................................................................................................................7
Privacy.........................................................................................................................................7
Confidentiality.............................................................................................................................7
Security Techniques to control Risk Factors...............................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
As per the given scenario of Four Season Greenhouse and Nursery, the process of stock
management is done manually and it is deemed time consuming. Greenhouse nursery is in
Colorado. The records of available and used stocks of the whole nursery are maintained in the
manual registers. Besides this, the calculations regarding the profits and revenues of the Green
House nursery are also done manually. Indeed, it is a cumbersome task and most of the time it
does not provide accurate results. Further these bad results put influence on the sales of items of
the Greenhouse nursery. Therefore, it is important to resolve this problem as soon as possible.
Now, Four Season Greenhouse and Nursery is using a new system that can effectively control all
the potential problems related to the inventory management and it is an automatic system i.e.
Point of Sale (POS). According to the feedback of employees of the Greenhouse nursery who are
using this system, it is very much helpful system and it has potential to perform the inventory
management activities quickly with the right results. This business report of Greenhouse and
Nursery will emphasize on the pros, cons, effectiveness and risks of this POS system in detail.