1.4 OBJECTIVES OF STUDY:
Sales
and purchases are done manually over so many years and some supermarkets are
known only in the area where they are situated. And therefore the sole aim of
this project work is to design and implement an online supermarket. The following
objectives are achieved to develop a system that should be able to:
Ø Making sales and purchases online for interested
buyers
Ø Make the release of new products and services online
and give web page address to refer enquires for more information
Ø Find a computer based solution for the organization
for accurate calculations, manipulation, storage and retrieval of data and
information.
Ø Check inefficiency in the organization to ensure
that the skills of the existing employee are enhanced.
1.5
SCOPE
OF THE STUDY
In a view of wide area
of online supermarket, this project research work covers areas of sales and
purchase, inventory control, marketing and shopping in CY supermarket. Sales
and purchases involve buying and selling of goods and services, which will in
turn help any business establishment to keep track of the business trend.
Inventory, which is defined as the list of detailed goods, a merchant list of
and catalogue of accounts of a particular stock will be concentrated on the
goods and services of CY supermarket.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 INTERNET
An
internet is a network of computer networks, which operates worldwide using a
common set of communication rules (protocols). A website is to the internet as
a market shed is to the market. (A market is a place where buying and selling
can take place)
Burton and Minus
(1960) states that; “those
wishing to sell in the market rent a shop or a market store or shade where they
display their goods. Those who wants to buy from the market needs not to acquire
a shade”. The internet at the moment has over 900 million users (growing at the
rate of 100 thousand new users per day).
Similarly, Lucy(1997) states that “the internet is
a very big market, so if one needs to sell on the internet, the person must
acquire a website where documents can be exchanged. Online goods and services
can be stored much as a trader stores his goods in a market shade”. Those not
wishing to sell but might buy or obtain free information on the web need not to
acquire a website.
Orillia et al (1972) states that; “websites are actually hosted on the
internet computer services; one server could hold several websites for
different individuals or organizations”.
Lucy (1989) states
that “internet is an electronic communication network that connects computer
networks and organizational computer facilities around the world”
2.2 ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
Online buying and
selling where internet is often referred distinguish online from ordinary
commerce requiring direct and non-direct electronic exchange of goods and
services. To participate in electronic commerce, the following is important.
Ø Internet merchant account
Ø Website
Ø Online business automation
2.2.1 Website
A
website is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other
digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server accessible via a
network such as the internet or a private local area network (intranet) through
and an internet address known as a uniform resource locator.
The web and internet
links provided in the website is often called the World Wide Web (www) which is
actually a distributed multimedia hypertext system that is based on client and
server architecture. An internet website name normally starts with http://www. Where http stands for
hypertext transfer protocol and www stands for World Wide Web. http is a set of
rules for communication between www clients and servers.
A website name
(location), including its full path, is also known as uniform resource locator
(URL). Therefore, URL can be regarded as the address of object on the World
Wide Web for example, the website of that organization (CY online supermarket)
will be on the internet so that the customers will browse the net and get the
address of the organization for purpose of buying and selling of goods online
or advertisement of commodities.
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