Briefly discuss any four characteristics of information required for Supervisory planning.

Characteristics of Information required for Supervisory Planning Repetitiveness: The information produced by these systems is usually repetitive in nature at periodic intervals such as daily, weekly, or monthly. Predictability: The information they produce usually does not contain any surprises for the manager or the users of the information. These systems produce results at the expected time. For example: People are paid by the system what they are expected to be paid and customers are billed for what they purchased. Emphasis on the past: The information generated by the systems usually describes the past. For example: payroll accounting systems describes the work done by the employees in the past for which they are being paid. Invoices describe past sales to customers. Detailed nature: The information produced is very detailed. To mention, as an example, pay-checks provide detailed information on the work week of each employee along with all allowances and deductions. Customer invoices describes the details of purchases. Internal origin: The data for operational system usually spring entirely from internal sources. That is data for pay-checks come from internal documents of the organization. Structured form: The form of the data input and the form of the output produced by the operational information systems is structured. That is the data on time cards are carefully formatted in identical fashion on each. Or the data on each customer invoice are carefully formatted in identical fashion. Great accuracy: The accuracy of the data used as input to such systems and of the output produced by such systems is usually very high. The data input and information output are carefully checked in a variety of ways.