3.1 Technical Descriptions
Databases: The total number of databases has been identified as 16 entities. The major part of the databases is categorized as administrative components and the general user components. The administrative components are useful in managing the actual master data that is very much necessary to maintain the consistency upon the system. The administrative databases are purely used for the internal organizational needs and necessities only at the upper and middle management areas.
The user components are designed to handle the transactional states that arise upon the system whenever the general employee within the organization visits the user interface for mock enquiry for the required data. The normal user interfaces get associated to the environment mostly for the sake of report standardization. The user components are scheduled to accept parametrical information from the users as per the system necessity.
GUI’s
In the flexibility of the uses the interface has been developed a graphics concept in mind, associated through a browses interface. The GUI’S at the top level have been categorized as
1. Administrative user interface
2. The operational or generic user interface
The administrative user interface concentrates on the consistent information that is practically, part of the organizational activities and which needs proper authentication for the data collection. The interfaces help the administrations with all the transactional states like Data insertion, Data deletion and Date updation along with the extensive data search capabilities.
The operational or generic user interface helps the users upon the system in transactions through the existing data and required services. The operational user interface also helps the ordinary users in managing their own information helps the ordinary users in managing their own information in a customized manner as per the assisted flexibilities.
3.2 Number of Modules
The system after careful analysis has been identified to be presented with the following modules:
1. Retail outlet operations Module: This module maintains the information to the existing retail outlets, and their subjective standards of operation. The module not only maintains the outlet information, but also associated with the products availability at these outlets and the specification in charger who are designated upon these outlets.
2. Outlets inventory module: The Outlets inventory module manages the entire information related to the stock of items that are maintained at the outlets, and the warehouses. The module is dynamic in nature integrating itself with the sales and purchases that take place upon the system.
3. Orders and Delivery information module: This module takes care of the information related to orders that are raised by the customers and the Door delivery of products that have been demanded by the customers as per their standard of requirement.