CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

E-commerce is fast gaining ground as an accepted and used

business paradigm. More and more business houses are

implementing web sites providing functionality for performing

commercial transactions over the web. It is reasonable to say that

the process of shopping on the web is becoming commonplace.

The objective of this project is to develop an online bookshop and

inventory control system. a general purpose e-commerce store

where product (such as books,) can be bought from the comfort of

hostel and homes through the Internet. However, for

implementation purposes, this paper will deal with an online book

store. An online store is a virtual store on the Internet where

customers can browse the catalog and select Books of interest. The

selected items may be collected in a shopping cart. At checkout

time, the items in the shopping cart will be presented as an order.

At that time, more information will be needed to complete the

transaction. Usually, the customer will be asked to fill or select a

billing address, a shipping address, a shipping option, and payment

information such as credit card number. An e- mail notification is

sent to the customer as soon as the order is placed.

1.2 PURPOSE OF STUDY

The main purpose of this study is to develop ONLINE BOOK SHOP

AND INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM that will help in sales,

distribution of ONLINE BOOK SHOP AND INVENTORY CONTROL

SYSTEM and also gives detail information about them. The program

illustrates all that is needed in the ONLINE BOOK SHOP AND

INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM.

1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY

With the growth in information technology, the study offers

numerous examples in online book shop and inventory control

system Customers need not to go to market again before he or she

can purpose book. Time wasted in going to market is reduced to the

bare minimum as the software help to facilitate business work.

Individuals on their own can order for books form their houses with

the help of the software.

1.4 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

(i) Due to the expensive nature of the books.

(ii) Competition involved in the bookshop market.

(iii) Inadequate distribution of books through bookshop.

(iv) Lack of adequate information about bookshop.

The need arise for the development of ONLINE BOOK SHOP AND

INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM software that will help to solve

these problems

1.5 AIMS / OBJECTIVES

The aims and objectives of this project are listed below:

 Increase the awareness and understanding of the online book

shop and inventory control system

 Achieve efficient and reasonable regulation of online book shop

and inventory control system

 To create a room where customers can view adequate

information about books.

 Expand the global acceptance of the online book shop and

inventory control system

  To assist customers in buying books online

 Develop and represent industry positions in technical, trade

and other issues

 Provide market data unique to this industry

1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This project work is narrowed to the online book shop and

inventory control system of most books. The names of the available

goods and their prices are listed.

1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

Owing to the scope of this project work as stated above, this project

work is limited to bookshop only. It is important to mention here

that time was a major constraint in the course of fact finding. It is

also wise to mention here that some information we need to work

with were not collected because of the nature of bookshop business.

1.8 ASSUMPTION OF THE STUDY

One of the major assumptions made in this project work is that

bookshop business deals with expensive books and therefore need

to be market as soon as possible with the help of online book shop

and inventory control system software.

It is also assumed that with the level of development in information

technology, there is a serious demand to join this trend of

information technology.It is also assumed that online book shop

and inventory control system will enhance and facilitate buying and

selling.

1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS

BOOKSHOP is a place where books of all kinds are display for sales.

COMPUTER is an electronic device used for to accept data inform of

input and process the data, store the data and has the ability to

retrieve stored data.

HARDWARE is the physical component of computer

SYSTEM is the collection of all part of computer including human

being.

STORAGE is a media for storing data/information.

DATABASE is the collection of related files.

INVENTORY CONTROL is a quantity of goods and materials on

hand. A manufacturer’s inventory represents those items that are

ready and available.