Unit 2 Assignment

Types Of Management Information System:

1.Process Control :
This system monitors the physical or industrial processes of business like an
automobile assembly, petroleum processes, or metal fabrication. The process
control system gathers data continuously and then makes a report on the
performance of the system. It is one of the most important type of Management
information system in any manufacturing company.

2. Reporting System :
This system is designed to produce reports about the operations and finances of all
level of management in a company. Management report system helps the manager
of the company to compare the performance of the company with the past year’s
performance and with the expected performance.

3.Inventory control :
Inventory of a company includes spoilage, sales, theft, and inventory on hand.
Inventory control system tracks all these things and updates management about
them.

4. Sales and Marketing :

This system helps the management to execute and track the efficiency of a
company’s marketing functions and sales.
Followings are the marketing functions that the sales and marketing system take
cares of.
A) Projected sales
B) Improving the quality of products
C) Handling distribution networks
D) Assembling and tracking the advertising stores and schedules

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E) Applying effective advertising, P.R and sales promotions

F) Pricing, discounts, and advertising

These reports tell that the sales of which product is maximum and which products
are not doing good in different retail stores of the company.

5. Human Resource (Enterprise collaboration/Office automation) :

This information management system allows management to control the flow of
information all around the organization. Electronic devices used by managers to
communicate with managers of other departments, their employees, or even by
employees to communicate with each other, are part of the office automation
information system.

6.Accounting and finance :

Accounting and finance system track the investments and assets of a company. The
data collected from these reports are assembled for financial reporting demanded
by law to deal with functions like federal, payroll, local taxes, state, and pension
funds. This system generates reports required for regular financial audits and also
generate annual reports for upper management.

7.Decision Support System :

This support system is designed in such a way that it helps the manager to make a
decision when a situation arises.
It gathers data from both external as well as internal sources. Population trends,
interest rates, and cost of new house construction are the few examples of external
sources, whereas manufactory, sales, inventory or financial data are examples of
internal source of information. For instance, a manager takes the help of a decision
support system to consider external and internal factors while setting annual sales
quotas.

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8.Expert system :
The expert system is designed in such a way that it takes and store the knowledge
of a human expert on a particular subject and use that knowledge to assist people
with lower expertise to make decisions.

9.Executive information system :

The executive information system is designed in such a way that it assists an
executive manager to manage executives. This system provides information in the
form of tables and charts which makes it easy for a manager to make analysis and
make important decisions.

10.Transaction process system :

The work of a transaction process system is to collect and process data produced
during an organization’s routine activities. The activities are like orders, payments,
deposits or reservation.

11.School information management system :

School information system (SIMS) enables a school to run day-to-day activities of
a school in an efficient way. Many schools are adopting this technology to shape
the minds of youngsters as well as tackling the all behind the scene activities of a
school.

12.Local databases :
Local databases are also an example of management information system. Local
databases provide in-depth information about the communities living across a
country. These databases take information from open business listing, public data,
integrated local service offering, and social survey’s input.