M. Tech. Business Information Systems / Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are playing a pivotal role in shaping an international economic landscape through job creation and acting as a catalyst in encouraging indigenous-traditional business activities, particularly in rural areas. However, SMEs operate their business with a variety of challenges. For example, the inventory control system is operated manually which results in intensive human errors. The argument driving the study was that a wireless web-based inventory control system could lead to sustenance and competitiveness of rural SMEs. The objective of this study was to; analyse how rural SMEs conduct business and to analyse how manual inventory control system are used, explore issues and challenges experienced which may be affecting the process of conducting business, and lastly to determine how wireless inventory control system could be used appropriately to improve rural SMEs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001899 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Tladi, Lethamaga Richard. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
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