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

2. Project Sponsor: Michael Moore, President
System Request
Project Sponsor: Michael Moore, President
Organization: Reader’s Outpost
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3. 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

4. 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

5. Context Level DFD

6. Level 0 DFD

7. System Components

8. Entity Tables & Attributes
Entity: Books BookID AuthorID PublictionDate BookQuantity SkuNumber CatID BookPrice Entity: Author Author_Lname Author_Fname
Entity: Genre CatID Cat_Name Entity: Employees EmployeeID Employee_Lname Employee_Fname EmployeeAddress PayRate HireDate Status
Entity: Transaction TransactionID BookID QuantitySold SaleAmt Entity: Transaction Detail TransDate TotalAmount EmployeeID Sale_Return

9. E-R Diagram (Chen notation)

10. Entity Relationship Model (Crow’s foot)

11. Physical Design
Books (BookID, BookTitle, AuthorID, PubDate, BookQty, SkuNumber, ISBN, CatID,
BookCost, BookPrice)
Employees (EmpID, Emp_Lname, Emp_Fname, Emp_Address, Emp_City, Emp_State, Emp_Zip, Hire_Date, Pay_Rate, Terminated, Term_Date)
Transaction_Details (TransactionID, BookID, QtySold, Sales_Price)
Transaction (TransactionID, TransDate, TotalAmount, EmpID, Sale_Return)
Author (AuthorID, Author_Lname, Author_Fname)
Genre (CatID, Cat_Name)

12. Structure Chart

13. Questions?