Frequent Shopper

Service Request SR-kf-013
  Service Request SR-kf-013 for Kudler Fine Foods.
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  University of Phoenix
Abstract
  Systems upgrades or request for services are a necessary stipulation of the business world. This operation allows for upkeep of current systems and the implementation of new programs. It is through this that the identification, design, and implementation of this program that will help to further enhance Kudler’s standing in the community and its commitment to its customers and suppliers.
Service request
The objective of this project request is to track purchases of individual customer’s. The customer purchases will be tracked and accumulated as loyalty points for redemption by the customer for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services as made available through partnerships with other external companies. The strategic purpose of the Frequent Shopper Program isto provide a system by which this process can be implemented and maintained. The object here is to create a business/systems requirements document as it is related to or for the development of the Frequent Shopper Program system to meet the objective of this request.
Process design is defined as being Activities_ involved in determining the _workflows_ and implementation _requirements_ for a particular _process. (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/process-design.html, retrieved 4 Jan 2010)
Having made this distinction it is possible to further refine these operations to this service request. The first objective is to identify the type of system design that is the most efficient and cost effective. Since this system is going to be dealing with fluctuating and exponentially expanding data from multiple sources for multiple accounts it is going to need to be self adaptable.
Apply the tools of systems analysis to describe the information systems architecture in terms of data, processes, interfaces, and network.  
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