DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A BILL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF EMENITE NIG. LTD. EMENE, ENUGU)

ABSTRACT With the trend of technology growth in the world of today, virtually every facet of human work has been affected; even the remotest of it all, and the production circle cannot be left out.  This study was carried out to verify all the manual processes involved in bill-of-material processing system and to seek a way of automating the system for effective operations. Since there is continuous moves towards technological advances that enhanced productivity of labour and free human beings of tasks done more economically by machines.  Computer and its applications have become indispensable and vital tools in economic, industrial and social development of the advanced countries of the world.  Nigeria as a developing country cannot afford to lag too far behind in this kind of revolution.  Therefore there is every need to know in every discipline the areas, which attracts computerization and why they need it. In this project, the software engineering principles were applied in the analysis, coding and testing of the software developed for the Bill-of-material processing.  Serious attention was also give to the design of the user interface. In the development of the software, visual basic programming language was used de to its support for all the features desired.  A brief user’s guide is also provided.  The end result is a software that is very effective and efficient in meeting it objectives and at the same time user friendly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title pagei Certificationii Dedicationiii Acknowledgementiv Abstractv Table of contentsvii
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION1 1.1Background of the study1 1.2State of the problem2 1.3Purpose of the study3 1.4Aims and objectives3 1.5Scope of study5 1.6Limitations of study5 1.7Assumptions6 1.8Definition of terms7
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW8
CHAPTER THREE 3.1Description and analysis of existing system15 3.2Fact finding method used17 3.3Organization structure19 3.4Objectives of Existing system21 3.5Input, Process and Output Analysis22 3.6Information Flow Diagrams26 3.7Problems of the Existing System27 3.8Justification of the New System28
CHAPTER FOUR 4.1Design of the New System30 4.2Input Specification and design30 4.3Output specification and design32 4.4File Design34 4.5Procedure chart36 4.6System flow chart38 4.7System requirements40
CHAPTER FIVE 5.1Implementation42 5.2Program Design45 5.3Program Flowchart48 5.4Pseudo code54 5.5Source Program: Test Run59
CHAPTER SIX Documentation60
CHAPTER SEVEN 7.1Recommendation62 7.2Conclusion64 Bibliography65