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Supply Chain Management System (Report)
Supply Chain Management System (Report)
By
Christopher Yahchouchi
Kamel Labban
Majed Assafiri
January 2015
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Contents
Supply Chain Management System Description: ........................................................................ 3
Supply chain Management system Relational Schema: ........................................................... 4
Supply Chain Management System ER-Diagram: ....................................................................... 5
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Supply Chain Management System Description
relationship between a supplier, a manufacturer and retail stores. The first actor supplies
to the manufacturer raw materials (cotton, leather). The manufacturer gathers all the
raw material and develops products (jackets, pants) that are then sold to retail stores.
Our database was developed for the manufacturer. Here the manufacturer can keep track
of the raw materials he buys from different suppliers and the order placed and the
products manufactured using the raw materials and the products each retailer buys
including the retailers order. Manufacturers will update the table dynamically depending
on the products, raw materials, suppliers and retailers. This table can help a manufacturer
increase productivity and time management. The database will facilitate the identification
of necessities when placing an order or when receiving one for the products developed.
The manufacturer can know on which dates what raw materials where bought and on
what day a specific product that is made from specific raw materials that come from
specific suppliers. This database is useful and can be used even as an archive where we
can see all the retailers the manufacturer sold to and all the suppliers they work with. A
database is a logical relation between information, so the supply chain database will also
help the manufacturer keeping up with the jobs at hand and increase the efficiency and
effectiveness of the company. It ameliorates the day-to-day duties and jobs and provides
the user with better organization because the database can answer all the questions and
queries needed to facilitate the task at hand such as placing an order or sending out
cant keep doing business and improve their products and services without the use of a
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database. The database should be centralized, and every change or addition or deletion
that happens should be seen on it. A supply chain management database is a guide in the
workspace and a guide for future trends and future products. You need the past and
present transactions and information in order to keep going strong in the future and the
database is the right way to go. Efficiency, effectiveness, time management and
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Supply Chain Management System ER-Diagram
Supplier ID
Supplier
Supplier Name
Item name
Supplier own
Price/Kilo
Raw Material
Manufacturer's
Sell
Invoice
Product ID
Sell
Retailer ID Retailer Manufacturer
Product Name
Retailer's Invoice
Retailer name Cost Quantity