ITPEC IP April 2025 Question 86
Which of the following is a system that collects information that is required for sales management or inventory control by reading or keying in a product code or a buyer’s attribute at the time of a sale?
Explanation
POS — a point-of-sale system records each sale at the checkout by reading the product code and keying in the buyer's attributes.
The register scans the product's bar code, such as a JAN code, and the clerk can key in attributes like the buyer's age group or gender. Each record (product, quantity, time, store, buyer) is collected centrally and used for sales management, such as finding best-sellers and slow sellers, and for inventory control and ordering.
Answer (c)
Why not others:
- •(a) ETC — electronic toll collection, which charges road tolls automatically through a unit in the car
- •(b) GPS — the Global Positioning System, which works out a receiver's position from satellite signals
- •(d) SCM — supply chain management, optimising the whole flow of goods from suppliers to customers across companies; it can use POS data but is not the system that collects it at the sale
Key rule: POS data is captured at the moment of sale, so it shows what sells, when, where and to whom: the basis for ordering and stock control.
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