Designing an Inventory System: Variables, Keys, Ranges, Operations, and Algorithms

Running head: DATA STRUTURES AND ALGORITHMS
DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS
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Executive Summary
The report deals with the designing of an inventory system. The company here deals in
products of two types; household items and food items, there are 300 household items, and
200 food items that the company needs to keep record of. The report focuses on the variables,
keys and the ranges to be used in the system. The report discusses about the operations that
the inventory can support. The report focuses on the searching and the sorting algorithms that
the inventory system should support. Last but not the least; the report has a detailed
discussion about the changes for the larger system to be made in the original inventory
system.
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussions.................................................................................................................................3
Business Scenario...................................................................................................................3
Variables, Keys and Ranges...................................................................................................3
Operation in the Inventory.....................................................................................................5
Algorithms for operations......................................................................................................5
Changes for larger system......................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
The report deals with the designing of an inventory system. The company here deals
in products of two types; household items and food items, there are 300 household items, and
200 food items that the company needs to keep record of. The report focuses on the variables,
keys and the ranges to be used in the system. The report discusses about the operations that
the inventory can support. The report focuses on the searching and the sorting algorithms that
the inventory system should support. Last but not the least; the report has a detailed
discussion about the changes for the larger system to be made in the original inventory
system.
Discussions
Business Scenario
The company deals in products of two types that are food items and the household
items. There are roughly 200 food items and 300 household items that the company needs to
keep the record. The products are stored with relevant information in the system that includes
type of the product, name of the product, price of the product, product manufacturer for the
household items and expiry for the food items. Later the company has a merger with another
company. Together they have products with around 25,000 household items and 1500 food
items.
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