ONLINE STATIONERY ORDERING SYSTEM

This paper contributes a research on rule based online stationery ordering
system in UTP. The system is rule based system because the lecturers must obtain
approval from 2 layers of top management before passing the application to stationery
unit for further processing. The objective of the system development is trying to
automate the ordering.
The innovation started when the current manual system is giving lot of weakness
to the users in UTP. It is time consuming for user especially the lecturers to request for
stationery . Sometime they may have to wait almost nine month to get the stationery.
This cause some lecturer prefer purchase themselves at supermarket rather than go
through such complicated procedures.
The system is running on intranet and only accessible within network UTP. The
system will connect all client pc from lecture, Program Head and Head HRM to the
server which install at stationery unit. The stationery unit also works as administrator to
control and maintain the system.
The system will apply the use of Rapid Application Development (RAD) as the
methodology to the system development. The RAD been chosen since it easy to apply
and produce low failure to the system compare to other model.
Research has done to the some ordering system in website which applied the
use of rule bases system as well. An online survey has been done to the UTP lecturers
and the staff in Stationery Unit to get their suggestion on the idea of the Online
Stationery Ordering System (OSOS). The development of the current OSOS is base to
the lecturers' requirement.