Thesis

CHAPTER 2- REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

AND STUDIES

2.1 RELATED LITERATURE

2.1.1 Foreign Literature

2.1.1.1 La GALETTE Supermarket

Background of the Company

La GALETTE is a German supermarket chain. It has 3 stores across Rwanda and 101 employees. It is planning to expand to Congo and Burundi countries. La GALETTE is a wholly German company owned by the Michael Fietzek. On 5th February 1997, La GALETTE opened its first store in Kigali Rwanda, is a supermarket specialized in the ordering of family use alimentation products.

Features of the Company

Online ordering and inventory system is an application that will permit the customers to get the information; the project is very broad reason why they have been limited to the LA GALETTE supermarket especially for: Product management, Customer management, ordering, delivers. The parts of their system includes: Product, this need Identification of product, Category of product, Name of product, Description of product, Price of product, and image of product. The Stock, Identification of stock, Identification of product, Date of Registration and Quantity and lastly Contains Identification of order and Delivery Date.

Processes of the Company

At La GALETTE supermarket, before purchasing product from different continent, they put on store according or following on type of each product. They use physical inventory where every product purchased recorded by using form of stock, when chief of store want to check the number which are on store, they take all form for each product then count product for verify if the number written on form matching on the number of product stored.

Stated below the Scope of their Allocation System:

After purchasing new product or getting product from supplier those products are recorded on stock, for selling product are recorded on shelf of supermarket others to cold chamber like cheese, meat or to fridge and freezer, sometimes come from to cold chamber toward freezer, before recorded to shelf...