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The Identify The problem The End User The Company is called Vesco and has 13 stores round the UK. The manager from one of their London stores has asked me to do the following for his supermarket only. The Problem A company called food on the go are their home delivery company. The manager of Vesco has asked me to make invoices for the â€Å"food on the go† company and their customers. The manager of Vesco called Dean Smith said that their old way of billing people was very slow. What they did was they would send an employee around the supermarket to get each item that has been ordered and would have to add up the prices at the end. He wants me to make it so that when his employees are doing this all they have to do is type in the serial numbers of the items and the computer will add up the prices and add VAT on its own. Also he would like the individual items and the subtotal to come up on the computer. So when the delivery company is delivering the foods to the houses, people will easily and quickly be able to pay because they will easily see what they ordered. Some people may pay by cash or some may have previously paid by credit card on their internet website. People order their food by filling out and order form saying what items they would like or they would fill out a form on the internet. An additional 10% charge will be added to their bill for this service. Possible Solutions to the Problem Manual Solution As they get their orders in they could write what is ordered onto a piece of paper and put them up on a notice board, and at the end of the week one person could go round the shop and get all the items from every list. ICT Solution They could enter the items in a spreadsheet, this would be good because a spreadsheet could add up the subtotal and add the VAT. After adding the VAT it can automatically add up the final total. My Solution Is†¦.. I will use the spreadsheet solution as the data incorporated in the spreadsheet can be put into a formula and therefore can be manipulatededhat time - consuming. ta i - consuming have fast access times. I suggest that they use a CD-RW. by the computer, it can also be presented in a good professional fashion. I will use an ICT solution because of the following reasons: The Advantages of Using the ICT Solution are:  · It is easier to edit the data and add up the data eg.