Development of a SaaS Inventory Management System
Loizides, Antonis (2013)
Loizides, Antonis
Kemi-Tornion ammattikorkeakoulu Lapin ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013052710962
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013052710962
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The objective of this research is to develop a Software as a Service web application and more specifically an Inventory Management System for Caterpro Ltd. The aim of this web application is to provide the basic tool for tracking as well as monitoring sales and inventory to individuals and small businesses who cannot afford the investment of a complete dedicated Inventory Management System. Moreover, this research will used for various purposes all the necessary components as well as steps required for the proper implementation of Software as a Service in a web-based environment.
The importance of this research will be the thorough description and analysis of the basic and necessary functionalities of an Inventory Management System web application. In addition, the cornerstone of the research will be the development of the web application and implementation of different techniques and functions for basic security and encryption.
The selected methodology of this research will be the constructive method, the most suitable for IT industry and especially for software engineering researches. This method will be used as the primary research methodology for finding theoretically and practically solutions to an existing problem.
The result and expected output of this research is the development of an Online Inventory Management System with the basic functionalities. The basic functions will be a secure registration and login system, inventory’s items, users, orders, suppliers, customers, history-logs and company configuration modules. In additions to that, there will be more advanced functions such as automatic email notification, Order’s pdf generation, export MySQL data to Excel file and a lot more.
The importance of this research will be the thorough description and analysis of the basic and necessary functionalities of an Inventory Management System web application. In addition, the cornerstone of the research will be the development of the web application and implementation of different techniques and functions for basic security and encryption.
The selected methodology of this research will be the constructive method, the most suitable for IT industry and especially for software engineering researches. This method will be used as the primary research methodology for finding theoretically and practically solutions to an existing problem.
The result and expected output of this research is the development of an Online Inventory Management System with the basic functionalities. The basic functions will be a secure registration and login system, inventory’s items, users, orders, suppliers, customers, history-logs and company configuration modules. In additions to that, there will be more advanced functions such as automatic email notification, Order’s pdf generation, export MySQL data to Excel file and a lot more.