Manment Information

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stems deal with day to day production and service activities.”
Taken from’ Information Systems a Problem Solving Approach’ Laudon and Laudon 1997


Taken from http://www.uark.edu/depts/cisqinfo/tcondren/w9f97/sld001.htm

What are the advantages of management Information System?
Regular reports help managers perform their duties for example a summary report of sales figures of a particular period in the year would allow managers to predict sales figures for the coming year and plan ahead. This would not only help the manager of the store but it would also allow the person in charge of purchasing stock, distribution, transportation, and finance to plan ahead of time as well. The head of stock would have an idea of how much raw materials to buy, distribution manager would have an idea of where to send it to the parts of the organisation which are most likely to utilise it the most.
Characteristics of Management Information System
1. Management Information Systems support structured and semi-structured decisions at the operational ...