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Brief Description

Distribution means making a product available to the consumer through moving the goods in a distribution channel. The product or service is shared throughout clients or consumer. It controls the flow of goods and makes sure products are promoted and sold.

Information Required

The information required for this would be distribution laws, customer information, shipping costs, distribution methods, and the amount of the product in the order.

Purpose of Information

The purpose of the information is to ensure the correct products are being shipped and at the right locations. This is important to make sure the correct amount of money is being made from the products and that they are being sold to the right consumers.

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Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase. The perception of success of such interactions is dependent on employees "who can adjust themselves to the personality of the guest". As well as this, they may deal with issues that the customer faces.

The information that this department needs is as follows; The issues the customer has faced, Information about the customer, and all the details regarding the issue.

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Finance

Basic Description.

The finance department is the part of an organization that manages its money. The business functions of a finance department typically include planning, organizing, auditing, accounting for and controlling its company's finances. The finance department also usually produces the company's financial statements.

Information Required and its purpose.

The finance department would need primary quantitative information to find out how much money they spend/ will spend on plans. They also need to know what money they will make from the things they plan to sell, to determine whether it will benefit the company or not.

They will get this information by working out the profit they make from the products they sell. They do this by looking at the difference of how much money they spent on products and how much they got for selling them to customers.

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Purchasing department     R CRAIB A Ford Purchasing is the function of buying Goods & Services from External Source to an Organization. Purchase department buys Raw Materials, Spare parts, services etc. as Required by the company or Organization. Purchase management is One of the most Crucial Area of the Entire Organization. Thus, Needs Intensive management.The info required for purchasing department is the income of the company and how much money they are allowed to spend. They need to know how much stock they have so they can order more if needed.They can make operational and tactical decisions by buying different products on a day to day bases so that they could keep on top of the amount of stock that is being bought more  and then even order new stock for the company so they can have a new product 

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Purchasing department     R CRAIB A Ford Purchasing is the function of buying Goods & Services from External Source to an Organization. Purchase department buys Raw Materials, Spare parts, services etc. as Required by the company or Organization. Purchase management is One of the most Crucial Area of the Entire Organization. Thus, Needs Intensive management.The info required for purchasing department is the income of the company and how much money they are allowed to spend. They need to know how much stock they have so they can order more if needed.They can make operational and tactical decisions by buying different products on a day to day bases so that they could keep on top of the amount of stock that is being bought more  and then even order new stock for the company so they can have a new product 

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A management information system that is targeted for use anywhere production is taking place. Modern management information systems are generally computerised and are designed to collect and present the data which managers need in order to plan and direct operations within the company.

Generally, any information can be used for manufacturing and production as it is the general process of gathering information E.G. how many people bought Scooby doo on blue ray or how much money will be needed to order more of this fantastic product

Information like this is needed to make the products sold be I stock at a balanced rate, to record how much money is being made and what products are selling best or selling worst so the store can make changes based on that.

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Brief Description -
Marketing is the management process through which goods and services move from concept to the customer. Marketing bases itself off of customer satisfaction to meet their goals, making developing a demand for certain products their top priority.
Information required -
All the information required for this focus is acquired from the customers, it is the marketing departments job to gather information about certain products from the customers so that they can define which products to prioritise. For example; how many products they sell.
Purpose -
The purpose of marketing is to analyse data received from the customers. This data allows them to then get a view on what needs improving. Marketing is therefore about finding and keeping customers.
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Description: R&D is in charge of developing new or innovative on existing products, these teams can also help with how products are produced to make it more efficient for the company.

Information needed: The information that R&D would need would be, user feedback on existing products so they can think of new ways to improve their products, information on what is trending and what people are currently wanting will help the team think of new products that will appeal to customers.

R&D will try to get their hands on information from their consumers for feedback and ideas.

For an example with phones people wanted bigger screens so R&D increased the screen size on the newer models.

Purpose of the information: The purpose of R&D is to innovate on older or existing products and try make them better from feedback or to come up with bigger and better ideas for the company to make.

If trends where showing that people wanted more battery lifer on phones R&D will see this and try to figure out how to achieve this in their next product.
CAR, DJ

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Our department is in charge of the directly selling the item to the customer. Convincing the customer to buy your products.

Depending on the type of product of service that you sell the process of making a successful sale depends on how you execute your sales plan e.g. if you are trying to sell a product that has been recently introduced to the market then you would send emails and make posters to advertise them on posters to increase the likelihood of the product being sold. For example, a sale department of a property retailer needs to make an accurate evaluation of a property so that the information seen by the customer is correct, they would also base the price of the property on this information and the quality of the home itself.

Certain information collected from research from the sales department is used to convince customer to buy the product

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Brief Description – Human resources is a division of a company that is focused on activities related to employees, for example: administration, hiring, training of staff, and general staff needs. The main role of HR is to assure that the people within a company all understand what their role is and have a place to go if they require anything.

Information that human resources would require would be: employee details, skills, requirements. The reason HR would need this information would be so that they are able to contact the employees when needs be, and assign tasks that require specific skills to the correct employee.

Another example of how the information can be used is: an employee has told human resources that another employee is being unethical towards them. HR can log this information and use it in the future when pairing up jobs with employees to make sure that the two specific employees do not get paired

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Advertising is a medium of information meant to attract and inform the public about a product, service or business. There are dozens of advertising strategies that a person or a business can use to fulfil this purpose.

A notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicising a job vacancy.

Main process of advertisement:

·         Brief -> research

·         Research -> Plan

·         Plan -> Execution

·         Execution -> Campaign

The purpose of advertising is to persuade customers into buying different types of products that a business or a company offers, the information within the advertisements give a description of what the product offers.

Different products will be aimed at different types of audience depending on the product that a company offers to the people.

Companies will compete with each other to gain commercial advantage:

·         e.g. selling items at a lower price compared to other business,

·         selling better quality items

·         Items with better value

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Brief Description - The IT department is responsible for providing and maintaining the IT equipment and services the organisation needs to enable it to perform its functional operations.
Information Required - software and processing requirements e.g. number of users requiring access; network traffic reports; access levels/permissions for staff members.
Purpose of information:

Operational support - monitoring of network traffic to identify attempted security breaches, checking effectiveness of security in place and/or identify new security needs.

Analysis - review levels of user access to identify periods of high/low usage for capacity planning.