Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(e-PIS)
Group 3
Basuel, Venice
Cruz, Paula Geene
Delgado, Karla Antonette
Gregorio, Katherine Nicole
Lotardo, Jean Mae
Naldoza, Vince Emmanuel
3A1
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
In the modern world today, businesses thrive, compete and prosper, and in order for
businesses to stay in the entrepreneurial arena, they need to seek out for ways in maintaining a
competitive edge. For retail businesses, it is a necessity to have an inventory system that gives
the management information on what goods are in store, what goods have been purchased, and
what goods have been sold. Failure to maintain an accurate inventory system could be
detrimental to the businesses that it could lead to significant opportunity costs of missing out a
good sale because of out-of-stock items. Inventory Systems need constant updates on when it
has been sold or when it needs restocking. Traditional companies maintain their records through
the use of manual labor doing such takes quite a lot of time, and may result to inaccuracy of the
figures shown. The purpose of our proposed inventory system is to promote efficient and
effective management of the inventory. It allows the users to easily update the inventory when
sales are made, as well as when the uniforms are restocked. It also allows the users in case of
new products; add new products to the database easily.
The Inventory system reflects the inflows and outflows of goods through supplier
delivery and customer sales. It is also possible to add a new kind of inventory although it does
not take into account goods that were returned from customers. The system is designed only to
function as a counting system and does not feature inventory valuation wherein monetary
amounts are assigned to inventories.
CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
One of the biggest challenges of an enterprise is to maintain the appropriate inventories and
control its cost of sales. (Empleo, P. & Robles, N. 2014)
It is a part of company culture for businesses to keep track of these inventories coming from
suppliers so as to match them with their reflective sales from customers.
For more or less all organizations in any sector of the economy, Supply Chain Management, the
control of the material flow from suppliers of raw material to final customers, is a crucial
problem. (Axsater, 2006)
Inventory is usually a businesss largest asset. Given todays competitive business world,
inventory management and control system could be a basis for ones success or otherwise.
Modern businesses are already using computerized system to keep track of their inventory.
However, even amidst the latest advances brought by technology, there are still some businesses
who are using the traditional way of inventory control or the manual system. Kalb (2008), in his
book entitled Structuring Your Business for Success, stated that in other companies where the
inventory system is not automated, checking inventory typically requires a phone call to the
inventory department where an inventory clerk has to physically check manual inventory records
or physical stock. Other downsides of manual inventory system include inaccuracy or being
prone to human error, the incremental cost of labor for the personnel in charge of the manual
system, and time inefficiency.
Godwin
Udo
in
his
Production
and
Inventory
Management
Journal
described
telecommunications technology as a critical organizational asset that can help a company realize
important competitive gains in the area of inventory management.
The field of inventory control has indeed changed during the last decades. Advances in
infomation technology have drastically changed the possibilities to apply efficient inventory
control techniques. (Axsater, 2006) The recent progress has somehow reduced substantially the
cost of the supply chain.
In a recent study by Bernabe, et al. (2007) wherein the said researchers proposed an automated
inventory system for Bell Electronics using Visual Basic .NET and a Structured Query Language
(SQL) for database maintenance, they have reached into a conclusion that an automated system
is more effective for Bell Electronics that it had lead to an increase in efficiency of Bell
Electronics inventory management and improved speed brought about by reductions in manual
interventions.
In line with this, the proponents opted to create an automated inventory system with the supplier
of PE uniform in the University in mind.
CONCEPTUAL MODEL
a. Input-Output-Process (IPO)
Knowledge
Requirements:
System Development Life
Cycle
Structured Query
Language
Visual Basic Programming
Language
Basic Database
Knowledge
Software
Requirements:
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Visual Studio
Hardware
Requirements:
Modem/Router
Computer
Requirements
Gathering
Designing the
System
Development of the
System
Testing and
Implementing the
System
System Maintenance
Evaluation
A PE Uniform
Inventory Control
System for the
University of Sto.
Tomas
tbl_admin
tbl_employ
ees
Controls
admin_id
admin_password
emp_num
emp_name
admin_name
Monitors
tbl_inventory
_list
Monitors
Contains
tbl_pecours
e*
Gender
Sizes
Quantity
emp_password
c. Normalized Tables
1. Admins Table (tbl_admin)
Field Name
admin_id
admin_name
admin_password
Data Type
Text
Text
Text
Field Size
50
50
50
Description
Primary Key
Admins Name
Admins Password
Field Size
Long Integer
50
Description
Primary Key
Employee
Field Size
20
20
Description
Primary Key
PE Course
Field Size
20
20
Description
Primary Key
PE Course
Data Type
AutoNumber
Text
Data Type
Text
Text
Data Type
Text
Text
CHAPTER 3
PROJECT DESIGN
The proponents of the UST e-PE Uniform Inventory system came up to a decision that they will
use an experimental methodology. They used a waterfall model to systematically aid their
progress in an organized and step by step approach.
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVITIES
The proponents brainstormed about gray experiences during their course of stay in the
university. Having stayed for 4 semesters in the University, the proponents had different stories
of unsatisfactory experiences, such as no stock for their desired size or sports, regarding the
claiming of PE uniforms. With this in the discussion, the proponents decided to engineer a UST
PE Inventory count system to aid the distribution and avoid repetition of the same problems
every semester.
In planning, the proponents set up the time table for the development of the project. Delegation
of tasks as well was done here. The proponents started plotting out the blueprint for the desired
outcome of the UST PE Inventory system. The proponents also sought for the assistance of the
personnel who are responsible of the PE uniform distribution. Inconveniently, they cannot
release actual information regarding their database. Due to this reason, the proponents opt to
proceed in engineering the inventory count program with dummy denominations regarding the
entries.
In designing the system, the proponents started the project initially in MS ACCESS by designing
the database that would likely be needed in the program. As the proponents construct the
interface in Visual Basic, modifications are made concurrently in the accompanying database.
The proponents documented the development of the project from step 1 until further necessary.
This is to aid a wide variety of users from the actual personnel responsible for the inventory
count regarding the FAQs of utilizing the system, to the future proponents who aims to develop a
similar system. The proponents developed recommendations for future developers of comparable
inventory systems in Chapter 5 of this paper.
RESPONDENTS
The principal users of the system are the people assigned by the University for the distribution of
PE Uniforms every semester. They are the personnel responsible for distributing PE uniforms to
students. The proponents aim for their assistance especially in evaluating the effectiveness of the
system.
CHAPTER 4
This chapter presents, analyzes and interprets the finding of the study in accordance with
the specific objectives of the research projects. Including here are the description of the system,
together with its data flow diagram, and the structure of the system. In addition, this chapter
further discusses the capabilities and limitations of the system.
SUPPLIER
STUDENTS
0
PURCHASE ORDER
PROCUREMENT
INVENTORY STATUS
REPORTS
INVENTORY COUNT
UPDATE
ADMIN
E-PE
UNIFORM
INVENTO
RY
SYSTEM
RECEIPT
INVENTORY COUNT
UPDATE
EMPLOYEES
1.0
DELIVER INVENTORY
INVOICE
D2
PURCHASE INVOICE
STUDENT
S
2.0
RECEIVE INVENTORY
SUPPLIER
REGISTRATI
ON FORM
ORDER
FORM
PAYMENT
EMPLOYE
ES
0.0
ORDER INVENTORY
4.0
PURCHASE PE UNIFORM
INVENTORY
3.0
UPDATE INVENTORY STATUS
ORDER
FORM
ADMIN
REQUEST
5.0
FOR
QUERY INVENTORY LEVELS REPORT
INVENTORY
DATA
D1
INVENTORY
COMPILATION
OF
INVENTORY
LEVELS
2.0
INVENTORY STATUS
REPORT
D3
RECEIP
T
INVENTORY REPORT
PROJECT STRUCTURE
Delivery_Form
This form shows the function of adding new stocks in the inventory. The user simply needs to
select the PE Course and enter the quantity on each size for either female or male uniform. After
finishing the form, the user can directly view the updated inventory by clicking the middle button
below the screen.
Sales_Form
Whereas the delivery form add new stocks in the inventory, this form deducts existing stocks
from the inventory. This reflects the sales made by the PE Personnel in distributing the PE
Uniforms to the students. This also provides a direct link in viewing the updated inventory
located at the middle bottom of the screen.
Delete_Form
This form allows to remove a selected PE Course Inventory for numerous reasons. One is when
the PE Course does not exist anymore in the University. Another is when the user types the name
of the inventory different from the table name in the database, which in result, will not connect
the data of the inventory to the system. User must select which PE Course to remove and simply
click the Delete Inventory button which will confirm deletion of the said inventory.
Account_Form
The account form previews the list of employees who can access the system. The employees
have their own employee numbers, and passwords. The administrator monitors the list of
employees and assigns each of their employee numbers.
New_Inventory Form
The function of this form is to create a new inventory for new PE Courses. As time passes by, the
world innovates and discover new things so does it reflects for new activities to arise. The user
needs to enter the name of the PE Course to be added then input the amount of initial quantity of
the uniforms for the new PE Course.