Inventory System

ISSN: 2278 – 1323

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology (IJARCET)

Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2013

2461

www.ijarcet.org

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Abstract— Managing inventories at Public Universities is one of the major challenges for higher educational institutions in Ghana. This is especially true for large, diverse and research-oriented institutions like the University for Development Studies. To arrest this deficiency, inventory management system software is the ideal answer for the ever growing public Universities in Ghana. In this paper, we present Inventory Management System Software for public Universities in Ghana. The software is efficient in managing stock supplies; stock issues and provides timely alert messages and reports to management in order to make inform decisions. It also requires minimal internal memory (512 MB) to operate and respond instantly to commands.

The software is made of two parts: the frontend is developed using Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 and the backend from SQL Server Database 2008. The software would be implemented on personal computers (PC) over a Local Area Network (LAN).

Index Terms— Database, Inventory, Public, Software, University

I. INTRODUCTION

An inventory control system is a set of hardware and software based tools that automate the process of tracking inventory. The kinds of inventory tracked with an inventory control system can include almost any type of quantifiable goods, including food, clothing, books, equipment, and any other item that consumers, retailers, or wholesalers may purchase

Inventory Management is one of the basic problems for public Universities in Ghana. It causes a lot of paperwork, in the absence automated system. Implementing such systems will require a lot of preliminary works such as determination of the requirements, system structure and decision software

Manuscript received August, 2013.

M.O Yinyeh, Department of Computer Science, University for Development Studies,...