Sherry’s Meats, a regional meat wholesaler and retailer, needs to collect up-to-date information on how much of each meat product it has in each store. It will then use that information to schedule deliveries from its central warehouse. Currently, customers entering the store fill out a detailed form specifying their individual orders. The form lists over 150 items; it includes meat and meat products available in different amounts. At the end of the day, between 250 and 400 customer orders are tabulated and deducted from the store’s inventory. Then the office worker in each store phones in an order for the next day. Store employees have a difficult time tabulating sales because of the mistakes customers make in filling out their forms.

a. It is not possible to have the solitary office worker in each store fill out the numerous customer order forms. Change the form (31/2 × 6_ either horizontal or vertical) and draw it so that it is easier for customers to fill out correctly and for office workers to tabulate.

b. Design and draw a specialty form of the same size that will meet the needs of Sherry’s customers, office workers, and warehouse workers.

c. Design and draw two different forms of the same size to meet the purposes in Problem 4b, because Sherry’s carries both poultry and beef products. (Hint: Think about ways to make forms easy to distinguish visually.)

d. Design a fill-in form for onscreen display. When a customer submits an order, it is entered into Sherry’s inventory system by any person who is serving customers at the counter. This information will be captured and sent to the central warehouse computer to help control inventory.

e. In a paragraph, describe the drawbacks of having lots of different people at different locations enter data. In a paragraph, list steps you can take as the designer so that the fill-in form is designed to ensure accuracy of entry.

f. Design a Web page used by a customer to enter an order directly to Sherry’s.

g. Design a Web page to obtain credit card information for a Web order. Partition the data onto two Web pages for additional security.

h. Design a three-dimensional dynamic Web page that allows Sherry’s to customize certain products, such as requesting specific ingredients in a meatloaf or a salad. When the customer selects a product from a drop-down list, the ingredients must be displayed with a means of selecting which ones should be included in the product.