Computer System in the Context of Retail Business
Anthony Wu 11CS2
Today, retailing businesses have to had up to date technology in order to be successful. Accurate, efficient communication sending and receiving can affect the business. So it is very important that to have the latest technology such as computers and networks. Retailing on a local and global scale can also affect how successful is the business. Locally, efficient networking that retailing businesses had allow customers purchase goods more faster such as the new bar-code scanners in supermarkets helps customers reduce time waiting in order to purchase goods. Globally, such as trading, eg: a computer retailing store may like to purchase some stock from over seas, they can make contracts by using the Internet.
Computer systems in retail trading on a local and global scale played an important role in today's society. Computer systems such as : the supermarket
POS system, provides efficient and accurate calculations when customers purchasing goods. Absolut Software, provides a host of state-of-the-art capabilities vital for increasing sales and productivity. Absolut Software will easily reduce the number of operators and supporting hardware by 15 percent.
Absolut Software provides a training mode for novices and a high-speed mode for the experienced.
Features: * Complete mailing list management * Promotion tracking * Catalog and telemarketing * Importing sub-system * On-line order entry * Inventory control
(multi-site, serialized, lot number, decimal quantities, and style-color-size) *
Credit card billing * Computer-driven in-store POS with "Suspend and Hold;" availability displayed * Wildcard search * User-definable extended search *
Unlimited text and binary (graphics) storage for key fields * A complete financial (A/R, A/P, G/L) sub-system * E.D.I.
And the international network system which brought customers information, e-mail address, and contract forms of customers are interested.
A retail computer system can do tasks such as:
Stock control is the control and how much stock were around the business, and the price of the items. Eg: Such as the SMART System is a totally integrated and interactive retail business system that includes the following modules:
Order Entry, Inventory Management, Sales Analysis, Accounts Payable, Accounts
Receivable, Monthly Lease, Financial Accounting, Payroll, and Customer Mailing.
Modules may be purchased separately if desired. An optional module for contracts and insurance calculation and form printing, known as EZYCALC, is also available and can be integrated into the system. The system was originally programmed for the Retail Furniture Industry but works equally well for any big ticket retail operation. All affected files are updated as each transaction is keyed providing real-time information and reports also the system will handle multiple and remote store operations.
Personnel Management is the system which kept the record of employees
... abusive behavior in prison. Zimbardo designed the experiment in order to induce depersonalization, disorientation, and deindividualiztion in the volunteers. This experiment does not fit in with other work in the field of psychology because the conditions the participants were living in was inhumane and the experiment leaders didn’t realize this until someone outside of the experiment pointed it out; it was an extremely unethical experiment. This experiment left many of the participants emotionally traumatized and it is often compared to the Milgram experiment, which was performed a decade earlier. As a result of the layout of the experiment, Zimbardo found it difficult to keep conventional scientific controls in place and did not remain a neutral onlooker. One of the critics of this experiment, Eric Fromm, challenged the generalization of the experiment’s results.
In August of 1971, American psychologist, Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment at Stanford University studying the behavioral and psychological consequences of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard. He wanted to observe how situational forces impacted human behavior. Zimbardo, along with prison experts, a film crew, and a former prison convict dramatically simulated a prison environment both physically and mentally in order to accurately observe the effects of the institution on its participants. This experiment later became known as the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment.
More new products need to be introduced and research needs to be done to find out which products will be most popular and profitable.
Philip Zimbardo is a prominent American psychologist who investigates the character trait of evil and how people turn to evil. Zimbardo was a professor at Stanford University as well as a past president of the American Psychological Association. He conducted the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. In the experiment, mentally healthy college students were randomly selected as prisoners and guards. The experiment was ultimately a failure as two prisoners left midway through the experiment because the guards had psychologically abused the prisoners under the warden of the prison, Zimbardo. After the test, Zimbardo came to the conclusion that the situation over personal characteristics had caused the ruthless behavior of the guards. Group pressure also caused the dictatorial activity of the guards, as each member of the group pressured each other to harass the seemingly weak prisoners. Zimbardo’s idea that the doers of evil consists of people who support
At first, guards started to taunt prisoners with insults, give them meaningless tasks to do, and punish them by making them do push-up. After a while, they became more aggressive and assertive by using fire extinguishers to punish prisoners, stripping them, and even taking their beds out of their cells. Meanwhile, prisoners started crying, screaming and became depressed. Many of them had to be released after a few days because they had symptoms of emotional disorders and early stage of depression that could have had lasting consequences for their health (McLeod, 1970). In the end, the experiment had to end earlier than expected because the prisoners could not take it anymore (McLeod,
Walmart is a retail giant that just about everyone in America has purchased something from them. It is a one stop shop for anything that a person could ever need. Walmart stores can be found anywhere in fact most people are less than an hour drive away from a Walmart store. Walmart’s success has put many companies out of business. The chains success is primarily from low prices and using an information technology system to meet customer demands giving them a competitive advantage. Walmart’s first major use of information technology came in 1975 when the company leased an IBM computer system to track inventory in warehouses and distribution centers. Computers have come a very long way since this time and are used almost everywhere. But in 1975 this was cutting edge technology and gave Walmart the competitive advantage over other retailers. Another thing that Walmart used to be revolutionary in their supply chain was the use of scanning barcodes in 1983. Before barcodes objects had to be read by a skilled cashier. With barcodes all that was needed was a quick scan and the computer would do all the work. This greatly sped up checkout time and made tracking inventory and data collection much faster and easier for both customers and the employees. Since this time it has become an industry standard for products.
Beneficence in research refers to commitment to reduce the risk of harm to participants while maximizing possible benefits to individuals” (txt). In the Stanford experiment participants were randomly selected to assume the role of prison guards or prisoners. The experiment was ended early due to the extreme violence of the participant prison guard and emotional risk to participant prisoners. Changes necessary in this experiment to ensure beneficence would include allowing participants to opt out of the experiment at any time and to be provided with extensive debriefing after completion or leaving the experiment. By allowing participants to opt out of the experiment, the risk to the participants would be
The effectiveness of punishment and the role of imprisonment can be seen in the Stanford Prison Experiment which demonstrates the violent and oppressive nature of prisons. In the experiment, a mock prison was set up and 21 male students at Stanford University were randomly selected to be either a guard or prisoner (Chin). The prisoners stayed in the prison 24 hours a day while the guards worked 8 hour shifts. The guards were given great latitude in how they could deal with prisoners, including “the rules they could establish and punishments they could carry out” (Chin). The realism of the experiment was seen by having the participants taken to a police station to be “charged” and “arrested”. Within the first 2 days, a prisoner rebellion
It is generally accepted that information is a vital commodity for the successful operation of today’s organizations. Nowadays modern business organizations are using computerized information systems in order to obtain such information. However as the technology advances rapidly the main issue is how can an organization should effectively use such an information system - which its management sometimes can be unpredictable - in order to effectively help the whole organization structure to improve and take the most out of it.
When considering the total cost of a large project, it may also be worth separately considering any elements of the new system that could be described as infrastructure. These are elements that can be used by more than one system. For example, a national cable network for a bank’s automated teller machines (ATMs) might also be used for a future communications system such as intranet or video-conferencing links. The desktop computers given to office workers for word-processing could also be used for e-mail. Logically the infrastructure costs would be shared across such other projects, and so affect relative costs and
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo set out to study the roles/ behaviors that random people would play if they were to be a prisoner/ guard. This experiment went into effect in 1971 and is called: Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. The participants that he had chosen were randomly assigned as either a guard or a prisoner. The goal of this research was to observe their behavior towards one another. The guards were supposed to treat the prisoners like prisoners, but not harm them, vice versa with the prisoners to the guards. As the experiment went on for a couple of days, their behavior changed towards one another. As the prisoners became more dependent on the guards, the guards began to show more signs of aggressive behavior towards them. They
is not very helpful as it not easy to use and take time to understand.
This complex environment together with a global market where input and product prices are continuing to fluctuate and remain volatile. Such changing environments creates a pressing need
The advancements in the technological world have allowed supermarket chains and other national stores to quickly dominate the market and are driving out the concept of the ‘local stores’. This surge in the market has seen shares rise and profits bulge with the three main contenders in mind being Sainsburys, Safeways and Tescos who now serve the whole of the UK between them and are the household names of the shopping world. The ICT input to these businesses is vital in that it provides speedy service; controls stock levels and will even allow bank balance transfers to be carried out with minimal difficulty or technical experience.
Consumers may purchase such technology for varying different prices, which greatly depend on the application in which the unit is to be used as well as the many different types of functions that are available to the market. For instance one may purchase a marine gps unit for their boat that has a mapping capability along with sonar (depth/fish finder), the cost of such a unit can vary greatly by manufacturer as well as region and whether or not it is a color unit or a monochrome unit, color being the more expensive. Other factors that play into cost of units are their application alone; aviation ...