INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM1

AUTOMATED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
CASE STUDY: DIVINE SUPERMARKET

BY

MULINDWA KATO PAUL
11/KUS/DCSIT/246U

A RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOOGY IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF DILOMA IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF
KAMPALA UNIVERSITY

JANUARY 2015
APPROVAL

This is to certify that this research report on inventory management system by Mulindwa Kato Paul has been under my supervision and it’s ready for submission.

MR. Labour Simeo
SIGNATURE……………………………… DATE……………………………………………
(SUPERVISOR)

LIST OF APPENDICES

APPENDIX A: SAMPLE QUESTIONNAIRE 13
APPENDEX B: TIME FRAME 16

LIST OF ACRONYMS

DFD Data Flow Diagram
EDT Electronic Data Interchange
SPSS Statistical Package for Social Sciences

TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL i
List of Appendices ii
List of Acronyms iii
CHAPTER ONE 1
1.0 INTRODUCTION 1
1.2 Problem Statement 2
1.3 .1 Main objective 2
1.4 Research Questions 2
1.5.2 Time scope 3
1.6 Significance of the Study 3
CHAPTER TWO 4
LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.0 Introduction 4
2.1 Inventory Control and Management 4
2.2 Importance of Inventory Management Systems 5
2.2.1 Inventory Orders 5
2.2.2 Stock Maintenance 5
2.3 The existing inventory management system 5
2.3.1 Difficulties in the Manual Inventory System 6
2.4 The proposed inventory management system 7
2.4.1 Benefits of the proposed system 7
CHAPTER THREE 8
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 8
3.0 Introduction 8
3.1 System investigation 8
3.2 Population study 8
3.3 data gathering techniques 8
3.3.1 Interview 8
3.3.2 Observations. 9
3.3.3 Questionnaires 10
3.5 System design 11
3.5.1 Data Flow Diagram 11
3.6 System Implementation and testing 11
APPENDIX A: SAMPLE QUESTIONNAIRE 13
APPENDEX B: 15

CHAPTER ONE
1.0 Introduction
The project will be in the academic domain of information system and a sub domain of inventory management system. Kenneth C. Laudon ,Jane Price

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