You have been assigned as senior director for a large manufacturing company. Your first assignment is to decide which type of Management Information’s System can best support your decision-making needs. For each of the following, determine which type of system you would use and why, to help solve the business problem listed or make a business decision:

a. You need to analyze daily sales transactions for each region

b. You need to analyze staffing requirements for each plant

c. You need to determine which customers are at risk of defaulting on their bills

d. You need to analyze your competition, including prices, discounts, goods, and services

e. You need to analyze critical success factors and key performance indicators for status on operations

f. You need to produce a graphical display of patterns and complex relationships for large amounts of data