Inventory and Sales Management System for Soigner

Abstract

Soigner is a company who are importing eco-friendly hair products from Italy and distributing to salons located island wide. Soigner is the appointed distributor for Rolland hair products in Sri Lanka and Maldives. The company?s entire business operation is handled manually without any automated information system. The management and staff members of Soigner are relay on the reports prepared at the end of the month by finance department with respect to the sales, inventory and debtors of business. As a starting initiative to the automation, Soigner is currently deployed a website which has capabilities of online ordering the company products by the customers (salons). The main goal of the project is to provide an efficient IT solution to manage the business functions related to inventory, debtors and sales of the company. This solution also intended to provide retrieval of management information as and when required. In achieving this objective, the client server software solution was designed, developed and deployed at Soigner. The traditional waterfall method was adopted as the preferred System Development Life Cycle process model during all stages of the project. The Object Oriented Design methodology was used during the designing of software. The Microsoft Visual C# language was used during the coding of the client-server software while SQL Server 2008 Express Edition as the database. Finally the software solution was deployed at Soigner and the feedback regarding the success of the project was obtained from the different levels of actual system users. During this dissertation the chapters were organized to describe the phases of the SDLC which was followed during analyzing, designing, implementation and testing. Each chapter describes the activities carried out during each phase of the SDLC. The conclusion chapter of the dissertation describes the final outcome of the project, lessons learned and future work which can be carried out to enhance the project.