Suppose you are responsible for the design of a new order entry and sales analys

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Suppose you are responsible for the design of a new order entry and sales analysis system for a national chain of auto part stores. Each store has a PC that supports office functions. The company also has regional managers who travel from store to store working with the local managers to promote sales. There are four national offices for the regional managers, who each spend about 1 day a week in their office and 4 on the road. Stores place orders to replenish stock on a daily basis, based on sales history and inventory levels. The company uses the Internet to connect store PCs into the company’s main computer. Each regional manager has a laptop computer to also connect with stores and the main office.

Recommend a technology architecture for supporting the business activities of the company.

The recommendation should include the following:

Brief summary of the business and business requirements

Description of the major system’s components/document developments/tasks required during using the SDLC methodology

Identification of challenges and roadblocks that you would anticipate if implementing this project

Definition of how the systems’ analysts (you and your team) will interact with users, management, and other information systems professionals to develop this plan (i.e. questionnaires, interviews, etc.).

Summary of recommendation and justification as the best solution

Explanation / Answer

Here there are two major parts.
i. Order entry (build a suitable user interface that facilitates them to enter their order along with all the details which in turn get stored in database)
ii. Order/sale analysis (Need a reporting tool like, SSRS to create reports and graphs that will help to make better analysis of orders and sales)

The SDLC using Agile:
1.Requirements gathering: Need to interact with store-persons who will order to replenish the stock, persons who will take order from end users. Discuss with managers about all the information they want to know about order/sales.

Divide the project into modules and set the priority level for each module.
2.Develop: Create the primary module.
3.Testing: Test the system and deploy it.
Collect feedback and see if all the requirements are fulfilled. Identify the flaws by users.
4. Feedback: Get feedback from the users and try to incorporate all details regarding order entry and sale.

Create all the modules using the same methodology.

(Using a report builder tool reports can be generated to show orders/sales as per required)

Major Challenges:

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