Assignment

Application Software Exercise

Course Name: Management Information System Course No: MIS-501

Submitted ToDr Sayed Faisal Hasan Professor Course Instructor

Submitted byMD. Shahriar Ashraf

ID NO: 2010-3-95-051

Q 01: Which are the best-performing stores and sales regions?

Answer:

Best-Performing Store: Store No. 6 is best-performing store because it has sold highest number of units, 727 units of products sold

Best-Performing Sales Region: East sales region is the best-performing region because it has the highest volume of sales, a total of 1532 units of products sold, during these periods.

Q 02: What are the best-selling products?

Answer:

Desktop CPU is the best-selling product among the all four products in all three sales regions. During the selling period of three months, a total of 981 units of Desktop CPU were sold.

Q 03: Which stores and sales regions sell most of which products?

Answer:

Store 1: Most selling product is Keyboard, 104 units sold Store 2: Most selling product is Desktop CPU, 56 units sold Store 3: Most selling product is Keyboard, 95 units sold Store 4: Most selling product is PC Mouse, 78 units sold Store 5: Most selling product is Keyboard, 237 units Store 6: Most selling product is Desktop CPU, 265 units sold Store 7: Most selling product is Desktop CPU, 167 units sold Store 8: Most selling product is Desktop CPU, 90 units sold

Sales Regions: EAST Region: Most selling product is Desktop CPU, 522 units sold North Region: Most selling product is Keyboard, 309 units sold South Region: Most selling product is Desktop CPU, 225 units sold

Q 04: When are the strongest and weakest selling periods? For which stores? Which sales regions? Which products?

Answer:

December 2004 was the strongest selling period and a total 1107 units of products were sold in all three Sales Regions.

The weakest selling period was November 2004 and a total of 1030 units of products were sold during this period.

The Strongest and weakest selling periods for individual products are given in the following The Strongest and weakest selling periods for individual products Item Description 101 Keyboard Strongest Selling Period December 2004, 330 units sold 17" Monitor November 2004, 251 units sold Desktop CPU December 2004, 343 units sold PC Mouse December 2004, 271 units sold November 2004, 149 units sold December 2004, 163 units sold October 2004, 312 units sold Weakest Selling Period October 2004, 283 units sold

The Strongest and weakest selling periods considering Sales Regions, Stores and Products are given in the following table:

The Strongest and weakest selling periods for Sales Regions, Stores and Products Sales Region Store No. Item Description South 1 101 Keyboard Strongest Selling Period December 2004, 39 units sold South 2 101 Keyboard Weakest Selling Period October 2004, 30 units sold

No change in sale volume; 8 units sold in each month, i.e. in October, November & December 2004

South

101 Keyboard

December 2004, 33 units sold

October 2004, 30 units sold October 2004, 12 units sold December 2004, 75 units sold October 2004, 52 units sold November 2004, 47 units sold November 2004, 18 units sold

North

101 Keyboard

December 2004, 36 units sold

North

101 Keyboard

November 2004, 82 units sold

East

101 Keyboard

December 2004, 69 units sold

East

101 Keyboard

October 2004, 49 units sold

East

101 Keyboard

October & December 2004, 22 units sold

From the above table, store 5 from North sales region has the highest sales (82 units) of 101 Keyboard in November, while store 2 from South region has the lowest sales (8 units) of keyboard among all other stores. South 1 17" Monitor November 2004, 30 units sold South 2 17" Monitor December 2004, 10 units sold December 2004, 9 units sold October & November 2004, 8 units sold South 3 17" Monitor October 2004, 38 units sold North 4 17" Monitor November 2004, December 2004, 3 units sold December 2004,

20 units sold North 5 17" Monitor October 2004, 27 units sold East 6 17" Monitor November 2004, 85 units sold East 7 17" Monitor November 2004, 36 units sold East 8 17" Monitor December 2004, 23 units sold

4 units sold December 2004, 23 units sold October 2004, 24 units sold October 2004, 34 units sold November 2004, 17 units sold

From the above table, store 6 from East sales region has the highest sales (85 units) of 17" Monitor in November, while store 3 from South region has the lowest sales (3 units) of 17" Monitor in December among all other stores. South 1 Desktop CPU December 2004, 33 units sold South 2 Desktop CPU December 2004, 20 units sold October 2004, 25 units sold October & November 2004, 18 units sold South 3 Desktop CPU December 2004, 29 units sold North 4 Desktop CPU December 2004, 30 units sold North 5 Desktop CPU November 2004, 57 units sold East 6 Desktop CPU December 2004, 99 units sold East 7 Desktop CPU November 2004, 57 units sold November 2004, 27 units sold October 2004, 21 units sold December 2004, 47 units sold October 2004, 78 units sold October & December 2004, 55 units sold East 8 Desktop CPU October 2004, 32 units sold November 2004, 28 units sold

From the above table, store 6 from East sales region has the highest sales (99 units) of Desktop CPU in December, while store 2 from South region has the lowest sales (18 units) of Desktop

CPU in October & November among all other stores. South 1 PC Mouse December 2004, 38 units sold November 2004, 3 units sold

South

PC Mouse

October & November 2004, 9 units sold

December 2004, 8 units sold

South

PC Mouse

December 2004, 26 units sold

November 2004, 5 units sold November 2004, 11 units sold November 2004, 24 units sold October 2004, 35 units sold November 2004, 42 units sold

North

PC Mouse

December 2004, 38 units sold

North

PC Mouse

October 2004, 65 units sold

East

PC Mouse

December 2004, 44 units sold

East

PC Mouse

October & December 2004, 45 units sold

East

PC Mouse

December 2004, 17 units sold

October 2004, 14 units sold

From the above table, store 5 from North sales region has the highest sales (65 units) of PC Mouse in October, while store 1 from South region has the lowest sales (3 units) of PC Mouse in November among all other stores.

Q 05: How can your company improve sales in the weakest store and sales region?

Answer:
As IT related products are elastic in nature, a price-reduction will boost up the sales certainly. And for the long run, we will conduct a quick market study to find out customers choices, income levels, preferences and other complementary assets and come up with a band new product customized to the local peoples needs. We will also improve our customer services to make them satisfied and to increase goodwill of the company. Thus our company can penetrate in the market and survive for long time.

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