Sports-For-All Modernization

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

        In Middletown of Illinois there is one of successful store selling sporting goods that privately owned by Nancy Knowland. Because of expenses in Middletown, the store delivers low prices for their large variety of product. This strategy kept the store to compete against K-mart and Wal-marts sporting good department.

        Until Wal-mart imported extremely inexpensive goods from sources that Nancy’s store can’t. Even several costumers chose to travel over 150 miles to St. Lois just to buy a new fashionable sporting goods customized for them at higher price.

        The Sports-for-all started to lose customer since they can’t provide a satisfaction to their customers. Although  they sell variety of sporting good at low price. But Sports-for-All is lack of customized good like what Wal-marts offer to their customers.

        Some of the Major Manufacturers does not supply the Sports-for-All a customized and fashionable sporting goods cause of being not registered on the Electric Data Interchange of the Major Manufacturers. The sports for all also does not have a Modernized System the could deliver faster process of data entries which is also the basic requirements when registering to the Electronic Data Interchange.

         For not selling customized and more fashionable sporting goods, the Sports-for-All became not recognized unpopular to the customers. The Sports-for-All continues to lose customers and their income decreases.

Electronic Data interchange (EDI) is a organization which suppliers and companies will register. Which sports for all need for selecting what suppliers they want to get and the suppliers can also suggest to other companies that they are willing to supply this company.

ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM

        The major problem of the Sports-for-All is that they're losing customers which results to lower income. The Sports-for-All does not offer a customized and more fashionable sporting goods that Wal-mart has which make Sports-for-All can’t deliver satisfaction to their customer.  The cause of this problem is that the Sports-for-All is not registered to the Electronic Data Interchange of the Major Manufacturers. This will not allow the Sports-for-All to establish a fast and reliable transaction to the Major Manufacturers. In that case, Some of the Major Manufacturers will not supply goods  to Sports-for-All.

        The Sports-for-All does not have a modernized system to do the task faster and efficient regarding data processing including data entry, storing and transmission of Inventory, Purchase Orders, Human Resource and others. For not having a modern system  the sports-for-all is not qualified to register in the Electronic Data Interchange.  

        The reason why the Electronic Data Interchange requires a modernized system is to establish  fast transaction between the store and the manufacturers without human Intervention. And also for the benefits of the sports for all they must register in this organization.