a. Discuss in one paragraph what good decision support system is for a small business like the Ladime Bayornaa Cooperative Society?

b. In one paragraph how would you program the decision support system of Ladime-Bayornaa Cooperative Society as small business looking at a major corporation?

c. In one paragraph what is the decision support system for Ladime-Bayornaa Cooperative Society.

Ladime-Bayornaa Cooperative Society Chief Executive Officer, Mwinenkoma Noella having a glance from her glass office windows, Mwinenkoma, can see customers have some brisk business shopping. These customers are meandering their way via the crowded departmental store’s narrow aisles, trying on sweat T-shirts and baseball caps, picking up other sweat sneakers here, there, and the entire shopping population was looking around the never-ending array of merchandise bearing the Ladime-Bayornaa University’s insignias. 

Watching the Co-op’s founder, Mwinenkoma, started this shop in the 1772, one can well imagine the founder trying to keep a security eye by pipping through little spaces between the windowpanes. Can you conclude that the store is attracting a steady traffic at the Ladime-Bayornaa market square? What can you say about the college students’ buying behavior of books and supplies as to whether that is enough for the Co-op to realize much profit? These questions were difficult to answer back then, it was tough to answer those questions in a much more precise manner. 

Minutes-by-munities these owners had to fully rely on their human imagination and feeling of gut by carefully watching and waiting all day. After several years in operation, Mwinenkoma is able to tell anyone stock-keeping from the first to the last unit, how she’s working on inventory at any given moment. Her PC is the window on her business, which is sitting on her desk. The system is able to give her up-to-the-minute and, easy-to-read all day long regarding electronic reports on current issues such as what sales’ items are moving and what are not. 

In addition to what inventory item is running low and is falling short of forecast. The computer can prepare product’s or supplier’s report on gross margins within a twinkle of an eye, and Mwinenkoma confidently can make decisions such as which product or supplier should be kept on board by looking at how fat or good the margin are and whether that is enough justification keeping the product or supplier. “Our business was in the 1700’s, and we had to move ahead,” she shares her opinion of the ¢88 million business.