CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The role of computer technology in both business and industries has come a long way. The general conception is that computer can naturally be used to facilitate any function that can be taught by man. Different types of business commonly used computers to assist with each day to day activities such as: sales order entry: procedure for handling customers orders, including receipt of the order and verification of availability of ordered stock.
The need for sales related data to be retrieved, manipulated and analysed is constant. In the pasts, data was collected by hand and analyses manually to produce a report. The people had to go through the same data procedure again if they wanted to use the same data to produce a different report. The computer allows us to capture data in a computer useable form for example on dork, once the data is available in this form, the computer can repeatedly retrieve and manipulate it to produce information tailored. In people useable for-to meet specific needs. However its application in sales management has been given fresh impetus going by recent publish work on the subject.
The computer can make quick easy production of accurate information, a reality to business people who need to dream about it especially when used on sales. Computer can also bring a math facility since accurate calculation of mathematics is difficult manual. Sooner or later a mistake is made, one of the major advantage of the use of computer with the proper software in sales management information system is that it will perform calculation quickly, accurately, with much greater precision and speed that would be possible manually.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The procedure involved in the follow up, management have always been strict and takes a long time or even days to accomplish. This affects supply and rusted transaction with customers. Production of sales eport on daily basis and as when required also takes an exceeding long time to accomplish too. Proper management involving supplies made and products in stock become a problem as a result. Hence the need for a sales management system to harness this process of product stocking, orders and supplies.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objective of this study is to development a computer. Based sales management information system that would help in achieving the following:
- Enhance or reduce to the nearest minimum processing time.
- To minimize the labour expenses of the supervisory sales man
- To avoid redundancy
- To produce various kind of reports when needed.
