


For example, retail stores use scanners to read the bar code from product packages and automatically enter the price item to TPS. The usage of automated data collection devices have made data collection faster, more efficient and reliable and allow firms to use the collected data in much more flexible ways.
#Transaction processing system diagram manual#
Data collection can be manual process or automated process.

TPS, a cross-functional information system were among the earliest computerized systems developed to record, process, validate, and store business for future use or retrieval. Since the 1950s, Transaction processing system (TPS) have evolved from slow, manual systems to advanced computerized system. Processing business transactions was the first application of computer of most firms. TPS supports different tasks by setting a set of rules and guidelines that specify the ways to capture or collect, process and store any transaction in a form of data or information. Transaction processing system (TPS), an information system (IS) mostly used by managers in operational management to record internal transactions, economic events that occur within an organization and external transactions where the business event took place outside the organization to make operational decision.
