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Disadvantages of B&CC===================================================10
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Introduction of PTCL
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Information Systems
In organization different kind of levels are involved in management, there are
different information systems at different level of organization. One information
system cannot provide all the information thats why all departments coordinated
with each other and jointly made a management information system for whole
organization.
PTCL information systems
Following are the information systems involved in PTCL.
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. PTCL is divided into two stages (1) strategic, management, knowledge and
operational level (2) functional areas such as sales and marketing, manufacturing
finance, accounting and human resource
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faults and complaints for a particular user and sent notification alert for
solutionthensystem itself calls back to the customer to know whether the
customer problem has been solved and has the customer been satisfied or not.
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This system is operated at all three levels of PTCL, which are operational, Middle
level, Top Management. This system includes the following functions
Franchise and Payphone Management
Costumer Information
Product Information
Sales Management
Order Entry
Order Management
Resource Management
Every employee in PTCL has an access to this software but options are limited
according to the authority of each employee. For example if an operational level
login his username and password then the options regarding his job appear on
screen and if top manager login his username and password then the options for
his purpose appear on the screen. The decision to grant installment in the bill to
customer is made by lower level supervisors according to predefined criteria.
Franchise and Payphone Management and Costumer Information
These two functions involve bill payment and customer account information.
PTCL employees just hit the phone number of customer and all the detail
regarding billing and accounts appear on the screen. These functions include the
following things
Costumer Name
Customer Address
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Payment Code
Payment Name
Payment Mode
Payment Type
Product Information
Product information involves the details about the product, which has been used
by the customer. For example it tells either a customer has used a PTSN or any
other differentiated product. It has tabs of Product code, Product type, Product
Status and Bill Status.
Sales Management
Sales management function of B&CC tells about the daily sales transactions and
track elementary activities and transactions of the organization. It includes sales
dialogs, customer experience about the sales and sales information about walkin queries and existing customers.
Order Entry and Order Management
These two functions include the details about new order and any change in
existing packages. Its process depends upon three phases
Accepting (New Orders or New Package)
Handling (Processing)
Completed (Completion of Process)
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Resource Management
Resource Manager involves the computerize tracking of receipts, cash, deposits,
payroll and store information for their materials like cables, telephone sets etc.
Advantages of B&CC
B&CC used for all three levels of Management which made it a sole
information system of the Organization
Immediately can track the data about the customer, which made billing
and other process quiet easy.
Describe about the new orders and packages conversation of customer to
their respective department.
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Difficulty for Top Managers to take decision via this system because it is
not easy as compare to ESS or DSS.
Partial Office Automation System
PTCL also implement partial office automation system, which is based on
database. It includes only two following things
Word Processor
Desktop Publishing
Office automation systems (OAS) are configurations of networked computer
hardware and software. A variety of office automation systems are now applied to
business and communication functions that used to be performed manually or in
multiple locations of a company, such as preparing written communications and
strategic planning. In addition to this, functions that once required coordinating
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The whole network of PTCL only one software name B&CC (Business &
customer care System) is used and which is cost approximately 3 Arab rupees.
This system is operated at all three levels of PTCL, which are operational, Middle
level, Top Management.
There are number of problems faced by PTCL, which are:Wrong Entry It is a common problem faced by PTCL.A Computer Operator
mistakenly enters wrong information about the customer.e.g Customer name
spelling,address etc so it is then corrected manually in B&CC Software.Below is
the picture where computer operator enters data into customer account.
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Solution
The wrong data which is mistakenly entered by a computer operator is
manually corrected by him,but i think that there should be a reverse button in
B&CC Software so incase if there is a wrong entry by a computer operator then it
should be undo by just one click in order to save time.
Un-user friendly IS
The Whole B&CC IS & the SAP Database is very un-user
friendly especially for a new user.It takes alot of time for a new user to fully
understand the B&CC software due to which time is wasted & organization faces
difficulties in dealing with the customer.
Below are the pictures of SAP Database & B&CC used by PTCL.
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Solution
As the SAP database & the B&CC Software is very expensive & is
already in action throughout the organization so if the new employee comes to
the organization then proper training must be given to him/her by Trainners so
that they can use SAP Database & B&CC Software easily & quickly.
Hardware Problem
It is the major problem in PTCL organization.Some times a
part of hardware malfunctions inside an organization or of the customer, so the
customer faces difficulties in using their service.It is noted & corrected through
Complaint Management Service application. Below is the screen shot of
hardware used by ptcl &Complaint and management information system
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Solution
As the organization faces number of hardware problems inside the
organization as well as the hardware of customers,so proper IS must be installed
in order to deal with hardware errors.They simply use Complaint Supervisor
Interface in order to deal with hardware problems which is simply a complaint
section & when the customer complaints about an error so they feed it into the
Complaint Superviser Interface software & then correct it.They must use proper
software for it so that it automatically detects hardware error.
Conclusion
Management Information system can play a vital role in building infrastructure of
telecommunication in Pakistan. There is need to realize the importance of
management information system in mind of PTCLs employees and to train them
according to emerging technologies in the world. There is need of improvement
like at operational level PTCL is using partially OAS (Office automation system);
the use word processing is in a limit, because PTCL ground level labors are not
educated as well as supervisor level employees. At managers level they have a
system that track all the transaction of the system like fault every supervisor have
an account and they have records so they use this record to remove faults and
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