Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Information systems


Size of different information system(s):

*      Departmental
*      Inter- organizational

   Carrefour Company uses two categories of the information system the (Departmental information system ) which link  between the different department of the Carrefour Company like the supply department ,human resources department and finance and accounting department, also all other department combine all under the enterprise resources planning system (ERP) that  include all internal and external management information and it work to planning inside the organization to  become easier and more efficient by the network that make the flow of information inside the company more effective ,and make working more faster. For example communicating with customer order, also bill of the material used of producing the exporting materials, supply chain planning and the company receivable.

The other type of information system category is (Inter- organizational system) , its system allows the flow of information to be controlled by more than one organization in order to achieve the supply-chain management system they want and to have more advantages of having exchange of technologies between organizations.

Type of Information systems used:

Carrefour Company used Transaction Processing System (TPS) which it designed to process routine transactions efficiently, accurately, collect, store, and modify.  A transaction is an event that generates or modifies data that is eventually stored in an information system. Also (TPS) serve the operational level.

·         Type: Operational-level
·         Inputs: transactions, events
·         Processing: updating
·         Outputs: detailed reports
·         Users: operations personnel, supervisors
·         Decision-Making: highly structured

Example of (TPS) in the business like:

ü  Make billing system to send the bill to the customers.
ü  Make systems which calculate the weekly and monthly payroll and tax payments.

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