Your client My Bagel Shop Inc is a regional chain of gourmet bagel bars, whose rapid rate of expansion has meant that the head office management: Business Applications Programming Assignment, DCU, Ireland

Your client My Bagel Shop Inc is a regional chain of gourmet bagel bars, whose rapid rate of expansion has meant that the head office management team wishes to become more systematic, and systems orientated in their business approach.

Your company has been commissioned to create a well-designed electronic point of sale application for use by their counter staff in processing customer orders. MBSI will use the EPOS to process and record sales of their gourmet bagels to their clientele, provide inventory management to keep on top of stock levels, and provide real-time and comprehensive reports that allow them to make better business decisions.

Each outlet offers thirteen different types of gourmet bagels, each of which is available to order in five different sizes. With such a large array of gourmet bagels and sizes, the head office management team is particularly focused on ensuring that it has consistency in pricing across its outlets and that each outlet keeps an accurate live count of its stock on hand.

To this end, each outlet should have a master bagel pricing list which the EPOS application must load from the file into the application at the start of the day for use in calculating transactions and displaying on the UI. The application must also keep a live count of stock, with an opening stock read in from the file at the start of each day, stocks of each item are reduced as they are sold during that day’s trading, with a closing stock, read out to file on application close.