IT for Business: Evaluating POS System Implementation for Four Seasons

This report examines the implementation of a Point of Service (POS) system for Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery. It begins by outlining the merits and demerits of the new POS system, highlighting advantages such as improved efficiency, inventory management, and financial transaction accuracy, while also acknowledging potential drawbacks like cost and the need for maintenance. The report then explores how a POS system can help an organization gain a competitive advantage, particularly through streamlined operations and cost-effectiveness. The benefits of a centralized database are also discussed, emphasizing data preservation, security, and cost efficiency. Furthermore, the report analyzes how the POS system can facilitate decision-making within the organization. The report concludes with recommendations for implementation, including discussions on LAN, MAN, and WAN, and different types of media for network connections. Overall, the report provides a comprehensive analysis of POS systems and their impact on businesses.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
1. Merits and Demerits of the new POS System.............................................................................4
2. How can POS system help any organization for obtaining competitive advantages..................5
3. Benefits of a centralised database................................................................................................6
4. How can POS system facilitate decision making........................................................................6
5. Recommendation.........................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The shipper surveys the genuine entirety that is owed by a particular customer and
moreover shows the aggregate for the availability of a receipt. After the receipt is made, the
customer proceeds towards portion (Ståhlberg and Maila, 2012).
This report clears up about the standard relevant research of a relationship, to be
particular, Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery. The report displays about game plan of Point
of Service in the said affiliation (Refer to Appendix 2). The couple of good conditions and
shortcomings of this framework are furthermore given here. Many recommendations are in like
manner obliged this affiliation.
1. Merits and Demerits of the new POS System
There are diverse conditions of the Point of Service framework. Four Seasons
Greenhouse and Nursery will acknowledge enormous favorable circumstances from this
framework. The major advantages of POS framework are according to the accompanying:
i) Rapidity and Efficiency: The Point of Service framework improves the profitability of the
trades happening (Rese, Schreiber and Baier, 2014). Also, the pace of these trades similarly gets
improved from this framework.
ii) Inventory Management: Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery was encountering trouble
in managing their stock physically. Point of Service framework will be the best decision
consequently.

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iii) Precision in any Financial Transaction: Point of offer framework helps in giving cash
related trades precision and without goofs.
This framework even has couple of bad remarks. They are according to the accompanying:
I) Expensive: Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery is a little nursery and in this manner, they
will encounter the evil impacts of budgetary crisis if they will execute the game plan of Point of
Service (Profeta, Balling and Roosen, 2012).
ii) Periodical Maintenance: The second constraint of Point of Service framework is the essential
of predictable maintainance (Frisby et al., 2012). This can transform into a noteworthy issue for
Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery as the entire course of action of business trades and
undertakings will be stopped.
2. How can POS system help any organization for obtaining competitive advantages
It can without a lot of an extend see each and every detail of a business errand from trades. On
account of the unraveling of trade strategy, the work load of the delegates is reduced. In any
case, they expected to track and mange everything physically. Regardless, with the utilization of
Point of Service framework, everything is done therefore (Nikolova and Inman, 2015). The Point
of Service aides in fundamental initiative process for any affiliation and gives cost reasonability
to each one of the affiliations (Polasik et al., 2012). It gets more pay the business and thusly the
relationship of Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery can value enormous advantage and can
complete their busines practices effectively and rapidly.
3. Benefits of a centralised database
The distinctive focal points of any united database are according to the accompanying:

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I) Recovers Preservation of Data: The shielding of data is over the long haul updated and
advertisement libbed with the help of any united database. It has an in built setup of adjustment
to inside disappointment that associates in sparing the private data, even after gear frustration.
ii) Improvises the Physical Security of Data: Physical security has been an essential point for the
foundation as the information and data has been put away in the database of the organization.
(Gomzin, 2014). Consolidated databases are utilized for constraining the physical access to a
particular zone.
iii) Cost Effectiveness: The third helpful position of a bound together database is its cost
ampleness (Polasik et al., 2012). It is to an extraordinary degree insightful and can be overseen
by any little or medium assessed affiliations.
iv) Gives Security to Data: A united database moreover offers security to the grouped data or
information.
4. How can POS system facilitate decision making
Basic leadership arrangement of the organization has been helping in keeping up an
earlier way to deal with the usage of key administration. The execution of Point of Service
framework in their business would change the whole technique. They would get to an incredible
degree successful and speedy organizations and would take diverse fundamental decisions
through this framework. Likewise, the information that will be gotten from these request would
be to an extraordinary degree important for the better organization of the business as Four
Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery would utilize this information in their business.

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5. Recommendation
LAN:- LAN means Local area network. It is utilized to interconnect assortments of
information imparting gadgets inside a little territory. It exchanges information at higher rates
and blunder rates is low. It was first presented in 1970.now it is utilized as a part of both business
and scholarly situations. It is utilized to trade the data. The plate drive stockpiling in huge.
MAN:- . MAN means metropolitan area network . It was presents in the time of 1980.it is
relatively like LAN yet it covers a whole city or grounds. It is the accumulations of various
LAN's that is the reason it is bigger than LAN's yet littler than wide zone organize. In a
metropolitan refers to the populace is high, MAN can be utilized over yonder in light of the fact
that the size is medium and it gives a higher information association speed inside a city or town.
The working standard of man as same as Internet service provider (ISP). it gives a mutual system
associations with its clients. According to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers) the scope of MAN arrange is up to 30-40 km which is approx 20-25 miles.
WAN:- WAN stands for Wide Area Network. This wide region arrange is a media
transmission or PC organize that covers a huge topographical separation. It is utilized by and
large in organization's home office or branch workplaces to work an alternate area which is
isolated by a huge geological separation. It is utilized for the most part to share, trade
information with the fundamental office. An association needs a media transmission specialist
co-op (TSP) to interconnect the LANs at the distinctive areas to accomplish this.
Types of media:- there are two types of media
1. Wired
2. Wireless

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1. Wired:- in wired communication data is transferred over a wire based communication
technology.
Example:- telephone networks, cable television, fiber optic communication etc.
There are few cables which are used in wired technologies
 Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) Cable
 Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) Cable
 Coaxial Cable
 Fiber Optic Cable
Category Speed Use
1 1 Mbps Voice Only (Telephone Wire)
2 4 Mbps Local Talk & Telephone (Rarely used)
3 16 Mbps 10BaseT Ethernet
4 20 Mbps Token Ring (Rarely used)
5
100 Mbps (2 pair) 100BaseT Ethernet
1000 Mbps (4 pair) Gigabit Ethernet
5e 1,000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet
6 10,000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet
Twisted pair cables are of two types : shielded and unshielded

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Conclusion
It can be concluded that the affiliation had utilized manual registers for following and
keeping up their inventories. However, they were having issue in managing the business and
were standing up to setbacks in their business. They grasped the colossal decision of securing the
Point of Service framework inside the affiliation. The above report has solely discussed the
advantages and terrible characteristics of Point of Service framework with reasonable
recommendations.

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