CLOTHES CHAIN STORE-SHOP DESIGN

Clothes Chain Store-Shop Design

Clothes Chain Store-Shop Design

Introduction

For the purpose of this assignment, we have selected Clothes chain Store. Now, because of the cruel competition, more and more retailers operate their business with the form of clothes chain store. Following the company's development, some new problems emerge. These problems lead them to notice a full new management theory: the supply chain management theory. Different from other management theory, this theory emphasizes the cooperation and sharing information with your suppliers. So it is significant for building an efficient information system base on supply chain management theory.

System Requirements Analysis

The information system requirements of clothes chain store include three aspects at least: basic information service for management, decision-making information and value-added service information.

Basic Information Service for Management

The information exchange between consumer and retailer: It includes business service information, the customer demand and complaint information.

The information exchange between retailers and corporate headquarters: It includes article of commerce information, adjust commodities information, advertisement and sale promotion activity information, marketing plan information, human resource management information, complementarity commodities information, branch vendition information, financial information, customer demand and complaint information.

The information exchange between corporate headquarters and distribute center: It includes distribution order, acceptive goods order, inventory information.

The information exchange between company headquarters and suppliers: It includes supply information and purchase information.

Decision-making Information

The information of upgrading service: Most of the information refers to customers such as popular commodities information, sale out information, the analysis results of customer complaint, suppliers' ability, amendatory product information and so on. The quality of service can be improved by analyzing the information.

The feedforward control information. The information includes enterprise internal management information, marketing information, competitor information, environment information and the forecast according the information above.

Expand information. The information belongs to investment and strategy information. There are four aspects should be considered: the population of new investment place, the culture, competition environment and the social political situation.

Value-added Service Information

The clothes chain store provides paid information search and inquiry service for customers combining with manufacture factory and wholesale. By processing the basic management information and decision-making information, the information is benefit for profits increase and cost decrease. Indeed we can regard this as the enterprise resource mining.

Information Flow Diagram of Clothes chain store

Before designing a framework of information system, it is essential to comprehend information flow. Each function of management has to rely on logistic information flow, fanatical information flow, sales and purchase information flow.

Logistic Information Flow

Distribute centers accept supply order form headquarters and arrange transport then check and tum into warehouse.

Distributes also take responsibility for putting them into different packages and distribute to different stores. At the same time, headquarters will transmit commodities' variety, serial number and price information using information system. According to the information, each store sales commodities to customer.

Purchase Information Flow

Headquarters must take sale and inventory situation into account to affirm the purchase commodities' variety, amount and ...