KMS Live E-Commerce Website For Kandy Musical Stores (Pvt) Ltd.

Abstract

Kandy Musical Stores is a recognized company located in Kandy city which sells imported musical instruments and related accessories. The company is well known for their enhanced customer service. Currently they are running on a simple stand-alone system just for recording their day to day transactions. On contrary, there is no proper way to reach customers in remote areas. Moreover customer requests and demands are not easily handled at the current situation. Even the communications between suppliers have become intricate because of the current communication channels. Ecommerce, the use of Internet for electronic transactions is one of the most important aspects of the Internet that have emerged in the recent times. The proposed system will cover two aspects of ecommerce, business-to-customer ecommerce and business-tobusiness ecommerce. System would allow whole day availability of transactions to the customer. Therefore the system would increase the opportunities of the customer while allowing the company to enhance their customer relationship management. Nevertheless the system will reduce both time and personnel required for the business processes while enabling ease of marketing, advertising and immensely increasing revenues with the ease of communication with the suppliers. Further the system enables the management to generate reports and statistics to enhance their business activities. The methodology used for the development of the system was Rational Unified Process (RUP) and it allows the use of Object Oriented System Development employing Unified Modelling Language (UML) for system designing. The system was constructed upon Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture and was implemented using Object Oriental PHP (OOPHP) together with MYSQL as the database and Apache as the server. Further, Microsoft Visio and Dreamweaver tools were aided for designing and development. Finally, KMS