METRO

Cash & Carry is a leading international company in self serves and wholesales. METRO is operating around 2,378 locations in 29 countries. No. Of its employees are 263000. It is 3rd largest trader in world, 2nd largest in Europe.

System

It includes such as an operating system program, which controls and supports the operations of a computer system.
Application

Software

These are programs that direct processing for a particular use of computers by end users.

Software

The other softwares used by METRO are

Microsoft word Microsoft Power Point Microsoft Excel Lotus Windows, NT, and Windows XP Office XP ORACLE (DATA BASE SOFTWAR

Database is a collection of logically related files or information for the purpose of handling or managing specific applications. The major purpose in the use of the data bases to provide
Easy

access Ability to update or upgrade the information Responsiveness to changes Dissemination and collection of information

Main objective of data bases is To provide privacy Integrity Reduce repudiation

The network system of METRO provides an opportunity to network users to access data from the internet so it becomes primarily important to provide needed information to customers.

Online information about products. Data warehousing, reporting the queries, storing the current and historical data extracted from various sources for management reporting and analysis. Data marts containing information of specific functions or population users. Data mining providing the facility to find patterns and rules that can be used to guide decision-making and predict future behaviour.

Intranet in Metro Metro uses internet-based technologies within an organization to facilitate communication and access to information.

ZIP disks have a storage size of 100 megabytes CD+R and DVD+Rs Flash Drives

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order to protect the data, backups are used, to protect from any unauthorized access into the system, the software that is being used is fool proof from the access of hackers. They use different passwords Some special keys are also used for the security

Management information systems have changed the dynamics METRO Cash & Carry efficiently. Decentralization is one of the biggest advantages of METRO Coordination of specialized projects and activities Another advantage of MIS is that it minimizes information overload

MIS ensures better planning for all activities and better ways to manage resources facilitate customer by their governing regulations. MIS help METRO in forecasting, preparing accurate budgets Managers are able to make quick, timely and informed decisions.

Highly sensitive requires constant monitoring in MIS. Budgeting of MIS is sometime extremely difficult for METRO. Through MIS the quality of outputs governed by quality of inputs which is difficult to manage all the time. Lack of flexibility to update itself is a drawback.

Top management and board members in METRO can take strategic decisions, plan future growth and business expansion activities MIS change the larger amount of data in to summarize form MIS connects all decision centres in the organization. MIS serves as a link between managerial planning and control. MIS assembles, process, store, Retrieves, evaluates and disseminates the information.

All parts of MIS including Hardware, Software, Networking and Database are performing efficiently that it increases the overall performance of METRO Cash & Carry. It provides all the required things at one roof which is easily accessible to its entire customer. With the advancement of technology, METRO also updates its MIS and whole IT system which prevail in the organization.