Cis 210 Inventory Management

Mohd NourCIS 210Week 2 Assignment 1Inventory Management Systems Winter Semester 2014Dr. Elizabeth B. WeidmanDate: 2/09/2014IntroductionDuring a family dinner, my sister who owns a small clothing store mentioned her frustration with having to manually track and reorder high demand items. She asked me to help her implement an automated system to help her with that process while staying within her small budget. In this essay, I will describe all of the necessary equipment, explain the cost involve the creation of the system, describe the ongoing maintenance that will be required, as well as provide her with a workflow diagram to illustrate how the system will work.AssessmentIn order for me to propose the right plan, I arranged a meeting with my sister at her store to discuss the budget and get the details about her business, employees, hardware and software she currently has. From the meeting, I was able to determine that her budget was $3000.00, she has 3 employees, her business was not on-line based which means that she didn’t have a website to process on-line transactions. She also has one computer running a Windows