Team C
BIS/220
April 3, 2013
David Chandler
Party Plates Company has been growing consistently for the past few years. The increase in sales volume and customers has everyone in the corporate office struggling to maintain current customer information, sales trends, and customer orders. Our system of tracking all this data has been the use of Microsoft Excel. Although it is a vast program, and it has worked effectively for the company for many years; it is now time to implement a better and easier system that will allow everyone to have current and accurate information on the operations of the company. It will also increase the communication flow between our staff and corporate partners. We are therefore, proposing the implementation of Microsoft Access. Microsoft Access is a software that is used for relational data. Relational data structure helps divide data in relational pieces. With the …show more content…
We will be able to run reports accurately, and at any time. Access allows multiple users to work on the same data at the same time. With Excel we could not change the information as easily, and we had to assign the job to one person at a time. That is time consuming and time is money. In addition, we consistently have the need to connect to several data sources at one time, and with Access we will be able to do so and change information or update information as we need to with a lower risk of making errors. This is going to make a huge impact on our sales as we will be able to keep up with our customer orders, check our sales trends, and follow up with any complaints or mistakes that have been made, in a timely manner. We will be able to communicate better as a team, and distribute the work evenly because the information will be broken down by departments. This will save us time and money and will help us better understand our business and improve the moral of the