Background on Sainsbury's

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AS Applied ICT - ICT and Organisations

Assignment Task 1

Research One – Sainsbury’s

History and Goals

The supermarket chain Sainsbury’s was founded in 1869 as a partnership. Once Sainsbury’s grew in success it became a private company, then even becoming public. It is now the longest-standing major food retailing chain with 788 stores. Sainsbury’s is a national commercial company who provides financial services but is mainly a supermarket retailer; selling food, clothing and home products. Sainsbury’s current goal and mission statement is “…to be the consumer's first choice for food, delivering products of outstanding quality and great service at a competitive cost through working faster, simpler and together.

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Data handling needs

Since Sainsbury’s store a lot of information about people, products etc it is essential that they have a reliable and secure system to store it all in. This data ensures that Sainsbury’s functions correctly. Sainsbury’s processes data from all aspects of their company, but primarily process’ data of about 30 000 products, 178 000 staff and 22 million nectar card holders.

The main information about products must be stored in the computer system so that Sainsbury’s knows not only how much to charge for each product but also stock levels within the store and stock-warehouses. The products will be automatically linked with prices, offers and stock levels. This information can be output in the form of receipts and also in the form of reports about stock levels, these would be useful when organising which products need to be ordered from suppliers.

Details will need to be stored about each of the customers with nectar cards; for example their name, address and telephone number. This data can be used so that the company knows whom to reward with ‘nectar points’ and where they can send additional information (e.g. leaflets, statements).

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Sainsbury’s also processes data of customers within their financial sector; this will mean more in depth details of each customer, such as bank and credit card details. This is used for customer related financial transactions, for example withdrawing of money or taking out loans. This data is needed for Sainsbury’s to function correctly in this department as they need to safely and efficiently organise this data.

Employee details should be stored so that Sainsbury’s can work out timetables of each member of staff and calculate how much an employee is liable to earn. They can then calculate their ...

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