The purpose of the Co-operative Education Program was to develop a retail store management system, in order to effectively provide end-to-end support to the company's retail store sites. The web application included back-end systems such as the inventory system, procurement system and also the delivery system.
The application also enabled migration of document management and report generations into electronic forms The system consisted of two main components, namely, the main office component, and the retail store component. The main office component covered resource logistics to the retail store, merchandise procurement and also purchase order management. Also in this component, the user can view each retail store related statistics e.g. profit and loss. The retail store component covered retail store side related module e.g. merchandise purchase order to the main office and inventory system and daily store report. The scope of this co-operative study focused on the retailed store management functionality of the main office component especially on the searching, adding and removing retail store modules.
The system was developed using Java programming language with ICEfaces JSF Framework with Oracle DBMS. The testing of the system showed that the system achieved the desired performance goals.