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The IdentifyThe problemThe End UserThe Company is called Vesco and has 13 stores round the UK. The double-decker from one of their London stores has asked me to do thefollowing for his supermarket only.The enigmaA company called food on the go are their home deliverance company. Themanager of Vesco has asked me to make invoices for the food on thego company and their customers. The manager of Vesco called DeanSmith said that their old way of billing people was very slow. Whatthey did was they would send an employee around the supermarket to geteach item that has been ruleed and would bring on to add up the prices atthe end. He wants me to make it so that when his employees are doingthis all they have to do is type in the serial numbers of the itemsand the calculator will add up the prices and add value-added tax on its own. Alsohe would like the individual items and the subtotal to come up on thecomputer.So when the delivery company is delivering the foods to the houses,people will easily and quickly be able to remuneration because they will easilysee what they ordered. Some people may pay by cash or some may havepreviously paid by credit card on their internet website. People ordertheir food by filling out and order form saying what items they wouldlike or they would fill out a form on the internet. An additive 10%charge will be added to their bill for this service.Possible Solutions to the ProblemManual SolutionAs they get their orders in they could write what is ordered onto apiece of paper and put them up on a notice board, and at the end ofthe week one person could go round the let out and get all the items fromevery list.ICT SolutionThey could enter the items in a spreadsheet, this would be goodbecause a spreadsheet could add up the subtotal and add the VAT. Afteradding the VAT it tummy automatically add up the final total.My Solution Is..I will use the spreadsheet event as the data incorporated in thespreadsheet can be put into a formula and t herefore can be manipulatededhattime - consuming. ta i - consuming have fast access times. I suggestthat they use a CD-RW. by the computer, it can also be presented in agood professional fashion.I will use an ICT solution because of the following reasonsThe Advantages of Using the ICT Solution are It is easier to edit the data and add up the data eg.