Design And Implementation Of An Automated System For Supply Management

Supply Management is the strategic and systematic coordination of traditional business functions which facilitate the distribution network between customers, and the company’s internal activities. The aim of the study is to design and implement an Automated Supply Management System. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows to develop an application software that will establish the extent of supply chain management practices implementation in an organization, aid easy capture and retrieval of supply chain details and help in maximizing profit by determining priority of supply chain. The motivation that led to the implementation of the proposed system is that most suppliers lack the technical expertise to dispense their duties, inadequate supplier selection and this is one of the most important decisions in the purchasing process and there is also a problem of lack of good contractual arrangement and a clear description of the product or supplier requirements may not be available. Also, there are delivery problems. The methodology adopted in this study is the object oriented analysis and design methodology (OOADM) which is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application or system by applying object throughout the software development process. The programming language used is HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, SQL and JQUERY. The reason why web programming languages was used is because, it is platform independent and it is a web based application. The significance of the study is that it will provide a better means of managing the supply function of an organization. The proposed system will enable the organization to maintain adequate record of supply records and to easily update, retrieve and get reports when needed. The expected result is an Automated Supply Management System that will manage supply functions in an organization and present reports of supplies when needed by management.