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Project Proposal

Group- 04
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of CSC301GC2 Project

Advisor - Mr. K. Sarveswaran

Members Yogarajah Kesavan Maheswaran Nitharasan Jeyapratheepa Jeyanantharajah 2009/SP/014 2009/SP/042 2009/CSc/009

Date 27/11/2011
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Introduction
Inventory is basically the total amount of goods and materials held in stock by a factory, store and other business. An inventory system is a process whereby a business keeps track of the goods and material it has available. Todays competitive environment is forcing companies to optimize the procurement processes and inventory levels while at the same time ensure accuracy of controls and implementation of standard procedures for the flow of materials. However, in the absence of appropriate systems and information infrastructure, companies are finding it difficult to achieve smooth and efficient.

Rationale
Some of existing system is manual to keep transaction record of the inventory in the Department of computer science. People still prefer to follow the manual method to keep the record. We have found that employees first of all record all information in there ledger. They are using to keep the record of stock purchase, inventory, etc. Following this method is very time consuming and tedious. It has many drawbacks as there may be mistakes while recording large data and this may disrupt the important transaction. So, in this project we are trying to make inventory management system which will help employees to keep record of inventories in systematic way and help them produce report about the inventory or stock currently available in their department in automatic way to help then decision making about the stock etc.

Objectives
Objective of the project is to develop inventory management system for department of computer science. y Ensure efficient and timely identification of vital corporate assets. y To provide Inventory System access to all necessary personnel. y To provide a full range of reports that will satisfy informational requirements. y To reduce labor of inventory management, centralize control and automation. y Develop an automated system that will be able to record, store, retrieve and generate reports of inventory useful to management in decision-making.
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Methodology
1. Collect data 1.1. Meet the staff (Mr. Sukirthan and Mr. Rajendram) and get the details they are using for their manual work of inventory management. 2. Discuss with the group 2.1. Discuss about the project works as ordering the collected information, creating database tables, ER diagrams, etc. 3. Talk with the proper person 3.1. Talk with the staff (customer) to know about their requirements. 3.2. Questioning them for more details. 3.3. Know their satisfaction and problems. 4. Fulfill the system for the inventory management and summarize the work &the result in the project report.

Implementation plan
This system will be designed in Visual Studio C#.NET 2010 for creating interface as front end for this system. . SQL will be used to create the database schema as the back end for this System, which includes all the tables, and primary keys. Security in our system will be provided by a username /password user authentication system.

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Timeline
Week 01 : (14.11.2011 20.11.2011) Week 02 : (21.11.2011 27.11.2011) Select project group and project title y Finalize the project idea and meet respective people. y Draft proposal Analyzing the software requirements & specification, and submission. Software project management plan y Start-up plan y Work control plan y Technical process plan Software design y Database design y Data structures and algorithms design. y Interfaces design. Implementation of project. Implementation of project. Implementation of project. Unit testing & System testing. y Submit final project, do the final presentation and demo. y Deploy at respective places.

Week 03 : (28.11.2011 04.12.2011)

Week 04 : (05.12.2011 11.12.2011)

Week 05 : (12.12.2011 18.11.2011)

Week 06 : (19.12.2011 25.11.2011) Week 07 : (26.12.2011 01.01.2012) Week 08 : (02.01.2012 08.01.2012) Week 09 : (09.01.2012 15.01.2012) Week 10 : (16.01.2012 22.01.2012)

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References
e-mail inventorymsystem@gmail.com

BlogSpot address - http://www.inventorymanagementsystemims.blogspot.com/

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