Cloth Store Inventory Management System Case Study: Charity Botique Nagongera Township
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2024
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Busitema University
Abstract
Inventories can be defined as any idle goods or materials of a company or firm that
are waiting to be used. Cloth store inventory Management system was designed to
allow the employees of Charity boutique to not only monitor stock levels and
minimize stock-outs but also help them in proper record keeping and inventory
tracking. The system majorly comprises of two Sections of access that include the
Manager (administrator) and the employees (other users).
The Administrator Section enabled the manager to log in and it directed him to his
dashboard where he was able to; view the total revenue, total orders and the low
stock warning as well as the user wise orders to see how the users are performing.
The admin was as well able to view the different product brands, categories and
products available. The system further provided the administrator with the rights to
add products, add categories and also add brands as well as edit their information.
He was also provided with the right to, add, manage orders and edit order
information and also add users, delete users and manage other user information.
The User section enabled the user to login and access their dashboard where they’re
able to view total orders, and total revenue. The user was further provided the user
or employee with the rights to manage (add, edit & delete) orders.
The methodologies used was Rapid Application Development (RAD) which was
easy and helped a lot in delivering a working system in a very short period of time.
Furthermore, employed were MySQL as a database management system, PHP as the
technology which is an open-source general purpose scripting language that is
especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. In
addition, HTML (Hyper-text Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
which are the core web scripting languages for building web pages and web
applications were used. HTML provided the structure of web pages whereas CSS
was mainly used to control the styling and layout of web pages. Also used were CSS
libraries like bootstrap for easy and uniform styling as well as font awesome for the
icons in the system. Google fonts, which is an online repository for various font
styles was also used in order to work on the appearance of the interfaces of the
system
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Mercious Gawaya, S. (2024). Cloth Store Inventory Management System Case Study: Charity Botique Nagongera Township [Research Report]. Busitema University.