Existing System's Inventory Process
The current inventory management process at Mo's Boots begins with the stock manager. Each week the stock manager will visually inspect the inventory on hand. Based off an ad hoc cyclic inventory count he/she will create and submit a purchase order that is to be sent to the supplier for fulfillment. Once the supplier receives the purchase order they will ship the required stock to the store's receiving department. It is here that the stock manager will review the items on the truck and compare them to the truck bill that is shipped along with the supplies. Assuming that all the supplies on the truck match the items listed on the truck bill, the stock manager will manually load the incoming inventory into Mo's QuickBooks Point of Sale system based on the items barcode number. Also, it is at this time that the stock manager will release the funds and pay the supplier for the received inventory. Next in this process is the actual sale of products to the customers. A given customer will come into the store and make their selections. Once the customer has decided on what products to purchase then a request for sale will be made with the sales clerk. The sales clerk will scan each item's barcode to retrieve the sales data that has been stored into the POS system currently in place. Once the transaction is complete the inventory that was purchased will then be removed from the inventory stored on the POS system. If a customer were to decided that he/she needed to return an item, due to a manufacture's defect, then the item would be returned to the store and a claim would be filed with the sales clerk on duty at Mo's. Essentially what happens here is the sales clerk will load the inventory back into POS system and rescan a replacement item for the customer or return their money. Once the customer has been dealt with, Mo's will file a