Bookstore Inventory Management System (BIMS) for Belweel Berjaya / Ili Natasha Zahari

Nowadays, almost all organizations are using computers in their daily business. Advancement of manually-operated system into automated system is the results of technology enhancement. Automation produces a great impact to the society, particularly in the field of industries such as manufacturing, airline, military and education. The advantages of computerized system are speed, accuracy, reliability, storage and retrieval of information (Emmanuel, 2015). Advancements in Information Technology (IT) have enabled corporation to use computers to perform their activities that were previously conducted manually can now be performed with the assistance of computers (Greuning, 2006). Therefore, a computerized inventory management system makes everything from processing the information to taking inventory easier. Performing a hand count of inventory will take days, however the same procedure should be possible in a matter of hours with a computerized inventory management system. Management Information System (MIS) is the combination of three sub components which are management, information and system that combines together to bring out the focus to provide efficiency and effectiveness of strategic decision making. Al-Najjar, 2010, as cited in (Shamsuddin, 2014) stated that MIS plays a vital role within the lifetime of associations, it provides the administration with appropriate data within the right time and place to assist the management to try and do numerous functions of planning, organizing and managing higher cognitive process. There are several common examples of information system that are currently used such as hotel management system, financial management information system and bookstore management system. According to the above facts, managing and maintaining a bookstore could also be controlled by efficient software. In Malaysia, there are many well-known bookstore such as Popular, MPH, Kinokuniya and Times. These bookstores not only provide offline services but also expand the business through online. This requires a great platform especially on the inventory system and fulfils the stakeholder’s expectations in terms of functional and non-functional requirements. Other bookstore needs to compete with the well-known bookstore to organize the books accordingly and improve the customer service by having this additional platform.