Ashley Home Furnishing Ltd - Business Model

Element
Information

Analysis
Products - specifications, catalogues, prices, supplier data.
Customers - names, addresses, delivery routes, access restrictions, profiles, buying history, credit rating.
Suppliers - names, addresses, products, quality control history, payment details, discounts received.
Employees - name, addresses, job grading, salary, pension details, assessment and performance details.
Sales - by store, by product, by month, customer type, gross profit by product.
Orders - customer, date of order, delivery date, product, quantity, special features.
Financial - Balance Sheet items, Profit & Loss Account items, salaries, sales, overheads.

Evaluation
Poor information on the buying habits of individual customers.
Information needs to be more accessible to management.
Security is poor.
Better back-up procedures need to be implemented.

Strategy
To implement a foolproof security and recovery system for data.


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