Hardware Management Information System

Abstract

As a very successful business in past 10 years in hardware industry in western province of Sri Lanka; I.M.N.Hardware requires Information management system to fulfill their service. The Current system is manual and use Microsoft office package for data processing. This method is very time consuming and it make staff extra work. The staff have to document everything in the business and it impacts the company's daily processes. Current system could not handle large amount of data and highly inflexible, Business continuity is at risk in case of damage to information and analysis data is very difficult. Therefore the objective of this project was to design and develop a system that provides a solution to solve existing issues, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the whole processes and mitigate the risk. After carefully analyzing the requirements, a new Information System was proposed and designed. In this system mainly includes about the handling the products, manage the employees and customers. At the products module include about the issuing and receiving products. For the customers module include there details about payments & their personal information’s. After the payment receipt will be printed through the system. And employees’ module includes their personal details, salary details. Management can get report by this sytem.It is easily to get day to day reports by this system. System was implemented using Visual Studio .NET (vb.net) and MYSQL handles the database components. The entire application could be viewed on Windows platform. Apart from the implementation, the development practice included a proper Quality Assurance process, user training sessions, and demonstration to improve the benefits of the system. An information system is an imperative requirement which is directly affect customer satisfactions and the business progress. Therefore, it is essential to establish and enforce a proper system that will serve as a tool in utilizing processes in the most efficient manner.