Report on Beneficial Aspects of Point of Sale

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Executive Summary
Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery is a small nursery located in the Colorado. The point-
of-sale (POS) can be helpful in flourishing the business operations of the company. Several
beneficial and non-beneficial aspects are related with POS system. The report explains all
how Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery can be benefitted adopting the POS system. The
WAN can provide several advantages to the POS system. The wireless technology and WAN
technology can simplify communication among the employees and the stakeholders. There
are many issues and challenges associated with POS system. Recommendations will assist
Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery to use POS in appropriate manner so that best results
can be achieved.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2. Background of Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery and introduction of POS system.....3
3. Advantages and disadvantages of the new POS system........................................................4
4. POS system helping the business to gain competitive advantages........................................5
5. Advantages of having a centralised database.........................................................................6
6. POS system facilitating decision making...............................................................................7
7. Recommending telecommunication options for this POS system.........................................8
8. Type of risks POS system bring and procedures to protect the business against those risks 8
9. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................9
10. Recommendations................................................................................................................9
11. Bibliography.......................................................................................................................10
12. Appendices.........................................................................................................................13
1. Introduction
Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery plans to adopt the POS system to flourish the
business activities.

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The report illustrates the beneficial aspects of point-of-sale in details. There are
several advantages and disadvantages associated with adaptation of POS system. Four
Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery must consider all those issues before adopting the POS
system (Abel and Obeten 2015). Recommendations will help to identify all the risks
associated and will help Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery to acknowledge how they
should adopt POS system and conduct business activities. POS can give them the edge so that
they can get a competitive advantage and stay ahead of other companies.
2. Background of Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery and introduction of POS
system
Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery is a small nursery based in Colorado. They
conduct business activities like other small businesses. They use manual registers to track the
inventory and manage the inventory. They use the manual registers to identify which items
yield maximum profit (Refer to Appendix A).
A point-of-sale is the area where sales are made. POS system contains the software as
well as the hardware components. POS systems offer flexibility and ease daily transactions.
POS also makes business operations faster. Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery have
decided to take up the POS system to furnish the business activities. They must choose the
POS software and will have to consider various aspects of the POS software (Pantano and
Viassone 2014). At first, they will have to verify all the functionality of the system; they will
have to notice that the POS system meet all the business deliverables. They will have to
consider the budget while taking up the POS system. Bindo, Vend, ShopKeep and
TouchBistro are some of the popular POS systems.