Description
ABSTRACT
This research work is concise and generally summarizes the activities duly carried out in the design and implementation of an automated inventory control system for NIGERIAN BREWERIES PLC, ENUGU. The system is designed to efficiently handle the movement and tracking of goods. The manual method is labour intensive, costly, and error prone and cannot ensure that the inventory remains up-to-date due to oversight and internal shrinkage. With the proposed new system, inventory can be updated in real time without product movement, scanning, or human involvement. The automated system helps in; (i) the determination of inventory status, (ii) registration of new stock, (iii)registration of new customers, (iv) supply of goods to registered customers, (v) printing of transaction invoices for customers for transactions that have taken place as well as viewing the available transactions that were carried out at a particular time. The study outlines the main concepts of the analysis and design methodology of the proposed system, compares it to the existing and goes further to explain the design and implementation of the system. The tools used were; Visual Basic 10 and Microsoft access 2007. The fact finding techniques employed is interview, observation, online and library research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Certification Page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
1 1.2 Statement of the Problem
2 1.3 Aims/objectives of the project
3 1.4 Justification for the project
3 1.5 Objectives of the Study
4 1.6 Scope of the Study
4 1.7 Definition of Basic Concepts
5 1.8 Project report organization
CHAPTER TWO
Literature Review
2.1 Comprehensive Overview
2.2 Types of Inventory Control System
.2.1 Four types of Inventory Control Systems
2.1.1 Manual Inventory Management System
2.1.2 Barcode Technology
.2.1.3 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID
2.1.4 Warehouse Management System
2.3 How Inventory Control Systems really work
2.4 What Industries use Inventory Control Systems
2.4.1 Application of ICS in the Manufacturing Industry
2.4.2 Importance of Inventory Control Systems
2.5 Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
2.5.1 Warehouse Management Rules Engine
2.5.1.1 Rules Workbench
2.5.1.2 Warehouse Management System Strategy
2.5.2 Importance of Warehouse Management Systems
2.5.3 ICS vs. WMS
2.6 Automated Inventory Control System Software
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Research Methodology
3.2 Data Collection
3.2.1 Primary Source
3.2.2 Secondary Source
3.2.3 Observational Method
3.3 Analysis of the existing system
3.4 Limitations of the Existing System
3.5 System Design
3.5.1 Input Specification
3.5.2 Output Specification
3.5.3 Processing
3.5.4 Login form
3.5.5 New customer form
3.5.6 Edit customer
3.5.7 Register product
3.5.8 Edit product
3.6 Data Base Design
3.7 System Flow Chart
3.8 Top Down Diagram
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Choice of development tools
4.2 System Requirements
4.2.1 Software Requirements
4.2.2 Hardware Requirements
4.2.3 Functional Requirements
4.2.4 Non-functional Requirements
4.3 System Implementation
4.3.1 Login form
4.3.2 Main form
4.4 System Testing
4.4.1 Unit Testing
4.4.2 System Testing
4.4.3 Testing Process
4.5 integration
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 Summary of findings
5.2 Limitations of the project
5.3 Recommendations
5.4 BEME (Bill Of Engineering Measurement & Evaluation
5.5 Conclusion
References
Appendix A
Program Source Code
Appendix B: Output System
Appendix C: User Guide