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MIS Report is a summarization of the overall internal controls of a business, which include the application of people, documents as well as technologies, and procedures by management accounts that are responsible for solving the various business problems.

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What is MIS Report?

Internal reporting is of great importance in any organization. The essence of internal reporting lies in conveying the tasks which have been assigned to individuals A management information system (MIS) indicates the altogether internal controls of a business covering the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures by management accountants to solving business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy.

What is the difference between business management information and ordinary information?

There is a vast difference between business management information system and regular information system. One of the reasons may be the fact that whereas regular information is just a collection of ordinary information, management information is required for the operational activities of an organization. It is also required for supporting human decision-making process like Decision Support Systems, Expert systems, and Executive information systems.

What does the MIS Report include?

The MIS Report includes a great number of things. They are the following:

• IT spending: The MIS Report is a record of all the expenses that was incurred by the company for the last month (in many cases it is calculated in terms of semesters or 6 months and sometimes it is calculated in terms of the entire year).

• Communication with supply chain: The MIS Report is also a combination of the supply chains with communication report.

• Sal

es Channels: In the MIS Report sales channels are properly mentioned

• Systems Environment: One of the most vital part of the MIS Report is the systems environment. With this report one is able to see the ongoing in the systems department.

• Manufacturing Locations: In the MIS Report there are a wide number of manufacturing locations. Along with the location, specific address is also provided for convenience. Readers of the MIS Report are able to track the locales where products have been manufactured.

• Number of Companies Using Package and Average Rating of Package (this is usually shown in terms of Revenue) for the following Categories

o Admin

. Payroll of different employees

. Personnel in office

o Engineering Department

. The unique Characterization

. The Design

. Document Control

. PDM

. Place & Route

. Simulator

. Yield Mgt

o Finance Department including,

. Account

. Budgets

. Product Costing

. Project Costing

. Purchasing

o Operations Department including

. ATP

. Cap/Demand Planning

. Inv/Warehouse

. Logistics

. MRP

. WIP Tracking

There are also Sales department and others like the following:

o Sales

o CRM

o Demand Forecast

o Order Mgt

o SFA

The MIS Report consists of detailed information and respondent comments. It is an accumulation of all the relevant details of a company meant for proper assessment.