Group Members: Saif Ahmed, Claudia Ledesma & Sarah Rush Reader’s Outpost

System Request  Project Sponsor: Michael Moore, President  Organization: Reader’s Outpost  Phone: 

Business Model & Background  Family owned bookstore since 1988  About $400,000 in annual sales  Currently employees 3 full-time and 3 part-time employees  Very well know in the local writer’s community  Debt ratio has been maintained at a very low figure (20%) for the last 3 years  Bookstore specialty is carrying rare finds  Monthly book club meetings are conducted in the store  All transactions are conducted on a manual cash register

Business Requirement  Capture the data on book inventory, prices, author, sales transaction and employees  Search books by authors, book id, genre, quantity being sold, price  Ability to run reports and plot trend charts  Track employee productivity based on books sold  Instant access to profit margins on books and net sales  Ability to track refunds electronically

Context Level  Reader’s Outpost Point of Sale  Data flow to and from external entities and Point of Sale process  External Entities  Bookstore Employees  Bookstore Manager

Context Level DFD

Level 0 (Metadata)  5 Processes  Search Book Information  Enter/Edit Book Information  Check Out Customers  Run Reports/Plot Trend Charts  Enter/Edit Employee Information  6 Data Stores  D1 – Books  D2 – Employee  D3 - Transaction

Level 0 DFD

Level 1 Process 3 (Check Out Customers)  1 External Entity  Bookstore Employees  2 Processes  3.1 Process Sale  3.2 Process Return  2 Data Stores  D1 – Books  D3 - Transaction

Level 1 Process 1 DFD

 1 External Entity  Bookstore Manager  3 Processes  5.1 Lookup Employee Information  5.2 Create New Employee  5.3 Modify Existing Employee  1 Data Store  D4 – Employee Level 1 Process 5 (Enter/Edit Employee Information)

Level 1 Process 5 DFD

 1 External Entity  Employees  4 Processes  Input Book information using SKU  Enter Quantity  Determine Discounts  Determine Sales Total  4 Data Store  D1 - Books  D3 - Transaction  D4 – Transaction Detail Level 2 Process 3.1 (Process Sale)

Level 2 Process 3 DFD

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