SALES AND BAR CODE PRINTING FOR ISMA

Abstract

Every production company wants to automate its inventory management, sales management and their analysis. If company has large networks of its operation then it is necessary to update all the information related to sales and inventory from different offices, located at different places, to home office on daily basis to keep operation effective and up-to-date. The work presents sales and bar code printing modules for ISMA (Inventory Sales-Management and Analysis system). Sales module provides facilities- such as generating bill of sales, generating invoice at home office after receiving the bill of sale detail from other offices. It facilitates to make various sales schemes that are used when making bill of sale. This module also generates authorization number which is required by sales persons at the time of generating bill of sale to change fields like discount, term, maximum sale amount and also when doing memorandum sale: Bar code module provides interface so that user can easily generate bar code of inventory ID, can print price, vendor ID, style and description of inventory on a label of desired format. The work has been developed using Visual Basic 6.0 as a front-end, SQL server 7.0 as a back-end and Win32 API on Windows 98 platform. C.Itoh S4 thermal printer has been Used to generate bar code.