COURIER OPERATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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CONTENTS

1. About Project
a). Title b). Project Co-ordinator c). Team Members d). Introduction e). Project Category f). Objective g). Client Description h). Limitation of Existing System i). Proposed System j). Scope of proposed System

2. Overall Description
a). Product Perspective b). System Specification c). External Entities d). Use case Diagram e). DFD f). ER-Diagram

3. Security Measures 4. Future Scope

1. ABOUT PROJECT

Title:

Courier Operation Management System

Team Members:
Zobia Zafar Aniqa Siddique Qurat ul Ain Farid

Introduction

This project deals with automation of operations of a courier company. Generally it includes the Data Processing, Employee Management, Reports Generation and Accounts Management. Here we are try to develop such type system which is provide the automation on the any type of the courier company. The main objective of this project is to integrate multiple branches simultaneously so that processing of records become faster. .

Project Category
Web application based on ASP.NET A Server Side Web Technology integrating RDBMS(SQL SERVER 2005) for centralized management of database.

Objectives

To enhance automation in courier operations providing speed and cost benefits. To increase operational efficiency. To integrate with optical bar code readers. Maintains report of daily processed records and proof of delivery report. Proper accounting. Proper employee and delivery boy information management. Packet tracking facility.

Client Description

GARRISON Couriers and Cargo, Defence Phase 6 Lahore Pakistan. Wants to automate their whole courier and cargo service in which all the systems can be run through software and billing and inventory systems were also get automated . They have no idea and also does not have any past software automation experience. They have a huge network of clients and they wants to save all the relevant information of their customers. They want an automated system through which they can generate automated billing , store customers data.

Limitations in Existing System

The existing system has following drawbacks:

Courier Company does not have computerized system. Manual system is slow and not provide a good user interface. Records handling is again an issue in manual system. Errors and mistakes are there in manual systems.

Proposed System
The proposed system should have following feature:

Barcode reader integration. Single data and Bulk data entry. Capability to import data from excel sheet. Print in multiple receipts. Accounts management should be there. Packet tracking system. Centralized system for multiple branches.

Scope Of Proposed System

Registration of Client Single and Batch Data Processing Acknowledgement to sender via mobile SMS service Facility of franchise to branch company Various discount plans for clients Online payment facility Local data processing at branches

System Specification
Hardware Interface
Client End: Browser : Any web browser Processor :Pentium IV (1GHz) or above version RAM : 512MB or more Disk Space : 1GB or more Others :Printer, Bar Code Reader Server End : Web Server:IIS6 or higher Database Server: SQL Server 2005 Processor :Pentium IV (1GHz) or above version RAM : 2GB or more Disk Space : 120GB or more Software Interface Microsoft Office. OS -Windows Server 2003 and higher Framework -.NET Framework 3.5 Database MS SQL SERVER 2005 Tool and Technologies For Design: Visual Studio .Net2008 IDE For Logic Processing: JavaScript as Client side scripting language

Software Interface
Software: Microsoft Office. OS -Windows Server 2003 and higher Framework -.NET Framework 3.5 Database MS SQL SERVER 2005

Tool and Technologies: For Design: Visual Studio .Net2008 IDE For Logic Processing: JavaScript as Client side scriptinglanguage

Technology: ASP.Net as Server side Technology

External Entities
AdministratorAdministrator is responsible for managing the working of system. She/he has the all the security privileges to access the system. He/she has following tasks : Create new user of the system. Generate and view various Reports. ClientClients are the various organizations those send packets in bulks. He/she has following tasksSends address details of receiver. View packet delivery status. Ask for bills and reports. OperatorOperates the whole system. He / she has following tasksData entry. Report generation. Billing. Payments. Add new client. Manage packet records. Invoice generation etc

Security Measures
The security will be achieved in system in following way: User level authentication through User Id and Password for each user. Administrator level authentication through administrative Id and Password. Hashed password is stored in database using MD5 algorithm so that even database administration is not able to get password.

Future Scope
Following modification or upgrades can be done in system. More than one company can be integrated through this software. Web services can be used to know exact delivery status of packets. Client can check there delivery status online. Distributed database approach in place of centralized approach.

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