Sales and Inventory System for Avon Imus
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Avon, the company for women, is a leading global beauty company, with $10 billion in annual revenue. As the world's largest direct seller, Avon markets to women in over 100 countries through its significant number of independent sales representatives. Its product line include beauty products, fashion jewelry, and apparel, and it features well-recognized brand names such as Avon Color, Anew, Skin-So-Soft, Avon Solutions, Advance Techniques, Avon Naturals, Anti-Marks, and Avon Wellness.
Avon has a handful of branches operating all over the Philippines, and one of which is the Imus Branch established in 1995. In counting, Avon Philippines – Imus Branch has been operating for 18 years now. Mrs. Soledad Pena who is part of the General Manager Advisory Council looks after the said local outlet.
In a retail company like Avon, multiple transactions are made on a daily basis. These may range from marketing, product development, monitoring of cash flows, promotion, beginning and ending inventory to clerical work. All these require manpower which may mean a slash on the cash budget and the possible outpour of workload.
The proponents have come up with a proposed study to develop their existing manual system through computerization, design, create a link database system in their inventory functions to easily process their transaction and avoid the common problems that they encounter.
This system is effective and efficient for it will alert them to any stock-out, overstock and missing items. Inventory clerks will be able to anticipate and calculate their replenishment lead time and inventory controlling will be much easier as the items are stacked systematically.
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.2.1 General Problem
Considering the multiplicity of transactions in a retail company, the manual system does not work well anymore because of the legitimate repercussions that it may cause like time consuming, loss of files, error in
1.1 Background of the Study
Avon, the company for women, is a leading global beauty company, with $10 billion in annual revenue. As the world's largest direct seller, Avon markets to women in over 100 countries through its significant number of independent sales representatives. Its product line include beauty products, fashion jewelry, and apparel, and it features well-recognized brand names such as Avon Color, Anew, Skin-So-Soft, Avon Solutions, Advance Techniques, Avon Naturals, Anti-Marks, and Avon Wellness.
Avon has a handful of branches operating all over the Philippines, and one of which is the Imus Branch established in 1995. In counting, Avon Philippines – Imus Branch has been operating for 18 years now. Mrs. Soledad Pena who is part of the General Manager Advisory Council looks after the said local outlet.
In a retail company like Avon, multiple transactions are made on a daily basis. These may range from marketing, product development, monitoring of cash flows, promotion, beginning and ending inventory to clerical work. All these require manpower which may mean a slash on the cash budget and the possible outpour of workload.
The proponents have come up with a proposed study to develop their existing manual system through computerization, design, create a link database system in their inventory functions to easily process their transaction and avoid the common problems that they encounter.
This system is effective and efficient for it will alert them to any stock-out, overstock and missing items. Inventory clerks will be able to anticipate and calculate their replenishment lead time and inventory controlling will be much easier as the items are stacked systematically.
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.2.1 General Problem
Considering the multiplicity of transactions in a retail company, the manual system does not work well anymore because of the legitimate repercussions that it may cause like time consuming, loss of files, error in