WEB BASED TEA BROKERING SYSTEM FOR EASTERN BROKERS LIMITED

Abstract

Eastern Brokers Limited is one among the eight companies involved in tea brokerage in Sri Lanka. The present operations are handled by the use of a partially computerized legacy system which has given rise to many problems and is very time consuming and proven to be ineffective. The important functionalities and capabilities that are expected to be in a general tea brokering system is lacking in this present system due to its long age and complex program structure. As a solution, the company has decided to converge on an Information Technology solution in order to develop a comprehensive fully-fledged computerized system catering to various needs and expectations of the diverse stakeholders. This Tea Brokering System is expected to cover almost all the operations and processes related to the tea brokering trade including estate management, buyer management, stores management, auction sales management, private sales management and the generation of various meaningful reports for the purpose of managerial decision making. The proposed Tea Brokering System is web based, which is developed in accordance to object oriented techniques employing various UML diagrams for modelling the system and adhering to the MVC architecture. Meanwhile, the system has been developed according to RUP framework. XAMPP web server solution stack is used for the development of this system utilizing Apache as the web server. PHP is used as the server side scripting language to build the system while MySQL is used for handling the database. Ultimately the developed system was thoroughly tested using a comprehensive testing procedure and evaluated to determine whether the system and user requirements are accomplished. Therefore, it can be understood that the developed system confirms to its specification whilst providing the intended functionality and anticipated outcome.