Purchase, Stock and Sales Management System for Gishani Distributors

Abstract

ABSTRACT Information technology plays a major role in present society. Varieties of fields are getting advantages by using information technology. Business and distribution is one of developed field via Information technology. In a business massive number of information is taking in and out. So human being cannot manage all the data in a manual way. It wastes time, decrease efficiency, overload paper works and increase the cost as well. Information technology is the answer for this type of problems. The client Gishani Distributors is a sales agent in Horana area, Kaluthara district. They purchase confectionery items from the Uswatte Confectionary Works (pvt) Limited (UCWPL). They store the confectionery items and distribute within their area with the support of sales representative who is appointed by the UCWPL. Generally the client purchase items for a week. They order variety of products at once. They manage all store records in manually. It was chaotic matter to the management when they reordering items and stock controlling. Author recognized that they need systematic program to manage the purchase, stock and sales. By using this system user can manage category, packing, item, expenses and customer details easily. As well as Purchase orders, purchase invoices and sales invoices can manage using this system. Also this system facilitates the user to generate different kind of reports. Such as expenses for given period, available stock, sales for given period etc. Only authorized users can access the system. According to the present software engineering theories and by studying the problem domain, the Rational Unified Process (RUP) was identified as the most suitable development methodology. Java selected as the programming language, Intelij Idea is selected as IDE and MySql for database management. Also JSP, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap, Spring and Hibernate is used to develop the system. The new web based purchase, stock and sales management system will fulfill the user and system requirements. The System will increase efficiency and accuracy of the process.