Take a restaurant information system as an example. A chain restaurant that recently opened in a city ordered food by computer, and its business was particularly prosperous. When guests arrive at the restaurant, they choose dishes on the computer, and the computer will display the varieties served in the restaurant. What kind of food do you want to eat? As long as you click, the appearance, price, raw materials, protein and various vitamins of the food will appear on the screen, so that guests can choose according to their own needs and tastes. After the customer orders and pays, the computer will automatically inform the kitchen of the selection result of the side dishes. The use of computers not only provides convenience for customers, but also improves the environment of restaurants.
Now let's see how the restaurant management information system works. Suppose the whole business process in the restaurant is designed like this: all the microcomputers are connected into a local area network, and the restaurant, kitchen, pantry, cashier's office, manager's office and so on all have terminals.
When a customer comes to a restaurant, the waiter brings a hand-held microcomputer to the table to order a menu. After the customer selects, the ordering information is transmitted to the background server. In this process, the system will automatically classify the dishes ordered by customers and send the information directly to the chef who made it. For example, the customer's cold dish order will be sent to the computer in the cold dish pantry; Drinks will be sent to the computer in the beverage room; If it's cooking, send it to the kitchen computer. If the raw materials of a dish are used up, the chef can immediately input feedback information through the kitchen computer, so that the waiter can immediately inform the customer of the shortage of a dish when ordering. After the customer inputs the information, he can immediately see the total price of the food he ordered. You can also get the bill quickly through the printer in the restaurant. All the dishes ordered by customers are listed above, including their names, prices and purchases. The system can compare the sales volume with the cost of various dishes, thus controlling the cost. Managers can also see the sales of each dish in a certain period of time and calculate their proportion in the total sales. The manager can adjust the menu according to this information. The establishment of this restaurant management information system is of great help to management and turnover.
Planning is an overall and comprehensive plan, deployment and arrangement of things to be done in a long period of time, and it is a plan to be put into practice. The development of management information system is a huge system engineering with a long development cycle. The characteristics of large capital investment, high technical requirements and high risks are more difficult than general technical engineering. System development will directly affect the success or failure of the whole system, so in the whole development process, corresponding principles and methods must be followed to ensure the quality of management information system.
To establish an efficient management information system, we must stand at the strategic height of the whole organization and make a comprehensive plan for the overall goal, development strategy, information resources and system development of the organization. Good system planning can ensure that the management information system can support the realization of the organization's long-term strategic goals, develop and utilize the organization's information resources and information systems more effectively, and make the construction of the management information system in a unified organizational goal, development strategy and effective environment. Therefore, it is the guarantee for the successful development of modern management information system to formulate an information system plan that can effectively support the strategic development of the organization.