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Storage Space Tracker

Warehouse Space Management

Objective
The client is a carrying and forwarding (C&F) agent with a warehouse, where the manufactured /
shipped goods of various multinational companies are stored before they are sent to the wholesale
market. Due to increase in customers, it has become dicult for the client to manually manage the
warehouse space and ensure that there is no loss of business. The system that the client needs
should be able to manage the warehouse space smartly and ensure that there is no loss in business
by keeping spaces vacant.

Users of the system

Multiple profiles of users shall operate this system.
1. Administrator
2. Customer
3. Warehouse Manager
4. Maintenance Engineer

High Level Requirements

1. The system shall record information about the time that the goods / shipment arrive and leave
the ware-house.
2. The system shall use the arrival and departure in-formation to calculate the current space
available in the warehouse.
3. The system shall map the allocated space to the customer using a unique customer ID.
4. The system shall maintain information about the companies, the shipment list, and its carry and
for-ward activities.
5. The system shall inform the clients as soon as their shipment leaves the warehouse premises, and
about the availability of allocated space for them in the warehouse. This will ensure that there is
minimal loss of business due to vacant space and ensure optimal usage of the available space by
increasing clients. As soon as it receives the information about the departure of a shipment, the
system shall retrieve con-tact information about the client using their unique ID.
6. The system shall print the information about the shipment, its arrival time, its departure time,
and space that was allocated to the shipment in ware-house in a mail template.
7. The system shall send the mail to the client immediately after the shipment leaves the
warehouse.
8. The system shall possess the capability to generate reports about the past and current shipment
details for each client, the current shipment details for all the clients at a given point in time, and
the current transactions in progress at a specific point in time.

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Non Functional Requirements

1. Internet Explorer 7.0 above browser compatibility
2. Proper user-id/password based user authentication to allow access to the system.

Technical Requirements
1. Create a detailed UML diagram (Component, Sequence, Class) for the OSMS and its subcomponents using RSA7.5.
2. Deploy the solution using Web-Sphere Application Server tool-kit which serves dual purpose i.e
as an IDE as well as an application server.
3. DB2 Database

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