Remote Data And Job Entry
Remote Data and Job entry pays an important role in the global business functions and strategies. Geographical distance does not matter at all for running a world wide business. It facilitates communications among the employees, save long distance phone calls and writing letters. It centralized data from regional, national and international.
It has been possible to enter data of the sales and transactions at the sales terminals using WANs. WANs or Wide Area Networks operate at a much wider geographical distance than LANs or Local Area Networks. Remote data entry is helps to centralize various data in a computer for processing and reporting purposes. As for example, Super Markets in many countries connected through WANs may send all sales data from their remote sale counter and the central purchase and distribution centre can monitor all the sale figures on day to day basis. The central distribution centre and the central purchase and distribution centre can monitor all the sale transaction on a day to day basis. After than the central distribution center can take action to supply the various items needed in different supermarket branches on the basis of the data collected from these branches.
This enables to control over all the branches and distribute of all the items to different branches.