Manufacturing and Stock Control System for Bopitiya Auto Enterprises

Abstract

Bopitiya Auto Enterprises (BAE) is a well established company manufacturing vehicle spare parts for the local market by importing the raw material from overseas. They were the President s Award winners under SME category. However their work process is managed manually and only for the stock maintenance purpose used a system but that too is not an efficient system. Due to the rapid growth of the company, there is a difficulty to manage each and every process accurately and even more difficult to integrating them. Also they were facing problems like delay in decision making due to the unavailability of required information, inaccuracies in data entry. As such owner of the company is interested to get the maximum advantages over cost, labor, overheads, work processes, work environment, decision making, etc. by computerization of existing work/business processes. The proposed system has been developed incorporating the Object Oriented Techniques and Unified Modeling Language used to system analysis and design. The proposed system will fulfill all functionalities such as sales & inquiry handling, order entry and order processing, raw material handling, stock maintenance and control, product (spare part) manufacturing process controlling & handling, providing required operational and management reports accordingly. The project was implemented using Visual Studio 2008 as the IDE and SQL server 2005 as the database server. Coding was done using the C# programming language and the .NET framework. Cristal report was used to report generation. In addition, Enterprise.Architect.Corporate.Edition.v7.5.850 was used to draw the UML diagrams shown in this dissertation. The developed system has been properly tested and it assists to the users and the management to work very efficiently.