Abstract:
Supply chain is an important area in any manufacturing or retail enterprise. The management of the supply chains is difficult and can greatly affect the performance of an organization. This project focuses on the development of Supply Chain Management System that can integrate the upstream and downstream supply chains. The project will focus on a general purpose, customizable solution that can cater for the needs of a variety of SMEs. The proposed project will focus on the development of a workflow-based system that will use the open-standards and technologies like Web services to integrate supply chains in a particular value chain for a particular organization especially SMEs. The focus will be on order management, maintaining inventory levels for raw material, work-in-process inventory and finished goods.
The system consists of a web-based system through which the administrator accesses the system and can perform a variety of tasks. The customers and suppliers of the supply chain access the functionality of this system transparently by using web services that call the appropriate functions on our system. The advantage of this technique is that the customers and suppliers don’t need to visit our system and can place orders and view invoices from their system and the request is automatically forwarded to our system and so their and our database is updated with only one user request. Some of the functions of the system, apart from those mentioned, include report generation, user account management, invoice management, stock forecasting, sales statistics and customer/supplier management.
There is also an android sub-system through which a warehouse administrator can access the main database and update/order products by scanning product barcodes and entering information. Other functions can also be perfor
