DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE INFORMATION TRAINING SYSTEM FOR A SHOP FLOOR (A CASE STUDY OF PZ INDUSTRIES PLC)

ABSTRACT
Point of sales services is very important to every manufacturing organisation. The activities of the shop flow is the major concern of every sales department in every organisation.
The project researched into the activities of shop floor tracking operations, detected the problems involved and prottered reliable solution to the problems because shop floor activities determines the rate of sales of producers, production quality and quantity, stock/inventory control and hierarchy of distributors. Any delay in report about shop floor transactions affects the entire business management, inadequate update and follow-up from the shop floor transactions adversely affects a business in many ways. It the activities of the shop floor is not tracked, the business will not be able to compete in the open market and the internal activities of the business will be a total flop due to lack of promptness in shop floor transaction feedback.
The existing system was modified into a complete computerized system with adequate combination line among the related departments in the system.

The new modified system is very easy to use and very cost effective.

TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
The problem and its setting 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Statement of the problem 4
1.3 Purpose of study 5
1.4 Aims and objectives 6
1.5 Project scope 6
1.6 Constraints 7
1.7 Assumptions 7
1.8 Definition of terms 8

CHAPTER TWO
Literature Review 10
CHAPTER THRE
3.0 Description and analysis of the exiting System 14
3.1 method of data collection 15
3.2 organizational structures 18
3.3 objectives of the exiting system 19
3.4 input, process and output analysis 19
3.5 problems of the exiting system 24
3.6 justifications for the new system 25
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 design of the new system 26
4.1 output specification and design 26
4.2 input specification and design 28
4.3 file design 31
4.4 procedure chart 32
4.5 system flow chart 38
4.6 system requirements 39
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 implementation of the new design 41
5.1 program design 41
CHAPTER SIX
Documentation 47
CHAPTER SEVEN
7.1 Recommendation 50
7.2 Conclusion 51
References 52
CHAPTER ONE

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Shop floor activities in the area of production and marketing is a transaction that requires on-line information flow for effective and result oriented business management shop floor activities involves moving, it extends to every other business transaction area in a firm. The adjustment on every brick of business management depends on the transaction that takes place on shop floor.
Shop floor activities determine The rate of sales of produce, production quality and quantity stock/inventory control and tierarctry of distributors. Any delay in report about shop floor transaction affect the entire business management, inadequate update and follow up from the shop floor transaction, adversely affect a business in many ways. The business will not be able to complete in the open market and the internal activities of the business will be a total floor due to lack of promptness in shop floor transaction feed back which in effects will bring about a comprehensive and accurate up date on stored information about business going-on.

The on-line information tracking system in a shop floor is a welcome approach towards solving the problems of bias business management.
The on – line information tracking system to a shop floor is automatic, timely, very accurate and flexible in reviving and updating information and it generates compretiecsive and reliable report on all sectors that depend on shop floor transaction for the control. The on-line information system is immediate, easy to use, interactive and lost effective, any transaction made on a shop floor is input into the system immediately, the system automatically made actuate entry and expected update on the related area of transaction. During report generation it is done as accurate and timely as it supposed to be
The Paterson zootomic company is my study reference. The company deals with the production and marketing of assorted beauty product. It is a very big company that has mummeries distributor across the nation. The company’s man transactions are performed on the shop floor. Every distributor of the company has a compretiecsive record maintained with the firm every transaction made by a distributor is carefully update against the distributor record. Day-to –day transaction records by the company is equally maintained as adequate for main purpose of controlling inventory and quality of products. The day – to day transaction on pz”s shop floor helps the management to categories .The Company’s distributor according to best performance. The pz company to maintain accurate account status of every of its distributor.
The Shop floor transaction on Pz Company is done in two ways:
On order and supply mode
Come and carry mode
The first mode is the order and supply where the3 distributors place order for products through the letter to the supply department, the supply department receives it, and makes the supply as and when due to the distributor.
The second mode is where the distributor appears in person in make orders and lifts the product immediate in the sales department. In each mode of shop floor transaction, adequate and timely information update is made through the on-line information tracking system to the maintained record of the distributor.

The quantity of lifted product is also adjusted in the inventory control system automatically.
The major distributor of pz are give the option of lifting products and pay back by installation in this aspect, each distributor maintain an accurate installment payments.
The on –line information tracking system maintain a communicating link among all the braches of Business management in pz computerized network system.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The pz-shopping floor is particularly computerized. The existing on –line system is maintaing adequate communication link among all business management areas. It is still very sectional and it does not totally eliminate redundancy.
Duplicate copies of files are still maintained in different section due to gap in date communication among the business sections.

The shop transaction does not immediately update the distributor transaction and account