DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A BILL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING SYSTEM

With the trend of technology growth in the world of today, virtually every facet of human work has been affected; even the remotest of it all, and the production circle cannot be left out.  This study was carried out to verify all the manual processes involved in bill-of-material processing system and to seek a way of automating the system for effective operations.
Since there is continuous moves towards technological advances that enhanced productivity labour and free human beings of tasks done more economically by machines.  Computer and its applications have become indispensable and vital tools in economic, industrial and social development of the advanced countries of the world.  Nigeria as a developing country cannot afford to lag too far behind in this kind of revolution.  Therefore there is every need to know in every discipline the areas, which attracts computerization and why they need it.
In this project, the software engineering principles were applied in the analysis, coding and testing of the software developed for the Bill-of-material processing.  Serious attention was also give to the design of the user interface.
In the development of the software, visual basic programming language was used de to its support for all the features desired.  A brief user's guide is also provided.  The end result is a software that is very effective and efficient in meeting it objectives and at the same time user friendly.

Title page                                    i
Certification                                    ii
Dedication                                    iii
Acknowledgement                                iv
Abstract                                    v
Table of contents                                vii

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION                                
1.1    Background of the study                            
1.2    State of the problem                        
1.3    Purpose of the study                        
1.4    Aims and objectives                        
1.5    Scope of study                            
1.6    Limitations of study                        
1.7    Assumptions                            
1.8    Definition of terms  
                        
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW    
                  
CHAPTER THREE
3.1    Description and analysis of existing system            
3.2    Fact finding method used                        
3.3    Organization structure                        
3.4    Objectives of Existing system                    
3.5    Input, Process and Output Analysis                
3.6    Information Flow Diagrams                    
3.7    Problems of the Existing System                
3.8    Justification of the New System                    

CHAPTER FOUR
4.1    Design of the New System                    
4.2    Input Specification and design                    
4.3    Output specification and design                    
4.4    File Design                                
4.5    Procedure chart                            
4.6    System flow chart                            
4.7    System requirements                            

CHAPTER FIVE
5.1    Implementation                            
5.2    Program Design                            
5.3    Program Flowchart                        
5.4    Pseudo code                                
5.5    Source Program: Test Run 
                 
CHAPTER SIX    
Documentation   
                           
CHAPTER SEVEN
7.1    Recommendation                            
7.2    Conclusion                                
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