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The use of information technology is widely used. This 9 page paper considers the way in which Dabbs.com a UK IT retailer might be using information systems such as a management information system (MIS) and a decision support system (DSS). The paper is speculative, but demonstrates the way these systems may be seen in reality. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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adopted that sells direct from warehouses direct to the customers with the delivery using third parties, such as the mail or parcel carriers. This is an effective business model as
it cuts down on many over heads, high street stores are not needed and the level of staff to sales is also lower than traditional retail outlets. The ability of
these companies to gain advantages of cheap facilities and economies of scale is also supported by the development in technology. Whilst many companies do not reveal their underlying IS structures
and tools we can look at a company and hypothesised the type of systems they are likely to use. For this we can look as dabs.com, an IT retailers selling
over 15,000 different products and has agencies with companies such as Sony, Microsoft, Toshiba and Hewlett Packard as well as many others. Dabbs is also dealing with a total of
more than 1.5 million registered customers that are both business and consumer customers. Selling IT products the business model is that of the warehouse and direct sales, without any
physical direct interaction with customers. The facility to collect goods from them was withdrawn in November 2002 as it was not effective and did not fit in with the business
model. The company was started in 1990 by David Atherton as Dabbs Direct and was a mail order business which was only to become an online business later as
the medium, of the internet and the attractiveness of e-commerce was realised by businesses and consumers alike. With such a large product base as well as customer base we
can appreciate who and why IS may be important in the management of the company, Here we may argue that in the everyday management there appears to be a management
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