MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

Management Information System

Management Information System

Introduction

BOOKMAX is a company that imports text books for University and polytechnic courses. The development of web application in BOOKMAX shall be discussed. BOOKMAX also publishes textbooks written in Newzealand. With the Internet is becoming the world's largest communication, it has provided an environment where everyone can be online at any given time. Under this environment, Online Book Selling can be useful to sell books on the Internet. Customers can purchase or get all books' information without going through a bookstore.

Description of the Problem

BOOKMAX is one of the biggest bookstores in New York City, opened on October, 1995. Because of having many kinds of books, many customers come to the bookstore everyday. Therefore, the management becomes more complex. According to our survey the bookstore, there are many disadvantages (Petroutsos, 2002):

Checking the amount of books

Controlling customers

Losing customers because the bookstore is opened too late - 9:00 AM - and closed too early - 16:00 PM.

To overcome the disadvantages above, the bookstore should have a web application--Online Book Selling --so that the bookstore can manage books easily and supply customers' demand anywhere at any time.

Management Information System (MIS)

The goal of Bookmax is to provide convenience to its customers. It is also convenient for customers who want to buy books without wasting time. With our available workforce and resources, we firmly believe that the goal will be completed successfully and will achieve the following functions of both customers and administrators (Kendall, and Kendall, 2002):

For customers:

Browse the book catalogue from a web browser anywhere that has internet access

Browse the catalogue by categories.

Search for books based on ISBN, title, publisher, or price.

Get detailed books' information from the web catalogue.

Register to buy books.

Send messages to manage of bookstore to ask more books' information or recommendation.

For administrators:

Browse the bookstore catalogue from a web browser within the bookstore network.

Browse the catalogue by categories.

Search for books with any information.

Insert the books that the customer bought.

Check books that customers buy and notify them about the expected time of books' arrival.

Notify the customers that there are no more books and inform them the estimated time of books' arrival.

Upload new books frequently.

Scope of Bookmax

This proposal includes planned research, its benefits, and qualifications to conduct the research, and cost analysis. Please see the sessions below for detailed information.

Defining MIS

Though debate continues unabated within the academic MIS community as to the suitable roles of reference disciplines and business application, a study of introductory MIS texts deeply agrees with the views of an MIS definition offered (Houp, and Dragga, 2002):

“A management information system is the harmony of people, machines, and measures that produces the right information and passes on it to the right managers at the right time.”

The inclusion of people, technology, procedures, information, communication and management in this explanation helps to demonstrate the difficult, interdisciplinary character of MIS. One may say that since management information systems themselves are interdisciplinary, as are the practitioners who build them, any learned discipline suggesting developing MIS theory must be interdisciplinary as ...