A sales information system development for manufacturers

Nowadays, in order to determine the business strategies successfully, knowledge management infrastructure is needed in hard competitive conditions. Although some companies are aware of the importance of knowledge management, they avoid new technologies due to inadequacy of time, money and their willing to prevent existing organizational culture. However, companies will gain competitive advantages when they overcome those difficulties and change them to opportunities. In this thesis, a sales information system is developed for companies that do not have enough time and money for knowledge management and it is for the process that begins with getting orders and completes with dispatching the products to customers. The reports that are given by the system help to track sales information. Access 2000 is used as a system database and Visual Basic 6.0 programming language is used for interfaces in sales information system. Keywords: Sales information systems, knowledge management, Visual Basic 6.0, Access 2000.