The document provides an introduction and overview of Easyday Retail Management. It discusses Bharti Retail launching 59 Easy Day stores in northern India and 3 compact hyper stores called Easy Day Market. It then provides more details on Easyday India and its operations. The document concludes with sections on benefits of the project, hardware and software requirements, and the system development model.

1. PROJECT REPORT
ON
EASYDAY RETAIL MANAGEMENT ”
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award
of degree of
BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATION
Session (2012-13)
UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF
Mr. Prabhat Verma
HOD
Submitted by
Mukti Goyal
BCA
Roll No- 6483006
SHREE DRONA CHARYA (PG) COLLEGE DANKAUR
Greater Noida
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2. CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the Project Report entitled EASYDAY RETAIL
MANAGEMENT being submitted by ________________ for fulfillment of the
requirement of CCS UNIVERSITY, Meerut is a record of an independent work
done by his under my guidance and supervision.
Mr. Prabhat Verma
HOD-BCA
Shree Drona Charya (PG College Dankaur)
Greater Noida.
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3. DECLARATION
I Mukti Goyal to declare that the Research project report entitled EASYDAY
RETAIL MANAGEMENT being submitted to the CCS UNIVERSITY, Meerut
for the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Business
Administration is my own endeavors and it has not been submitted earlier to any
institution/university for any degree.
Place:
Date: ( )
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4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Before I get into the details of Research, I would like to add a few heart felt words to the
people who were of his project in numerous ways.
No work is complete without help and co-operation of an expert mentor. I want to give my
sincere thanks to my Research Guide Mr. PRABHAT VERMA, without his guidance and
moral support this project cannot be completed.
I thank other faculty members for giving me valuable time and input without this project
would not have been so effective. It was learning and enlightening experience for me and
therefore I will remain indebted to my Faculty Members.
Mukti Goyal
BCA
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5. CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. BENEFITS
3. HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIRMENTS
4.SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT MODEL
4.1ANALYSIS PHASE
4.2 FEASIBILITY STUDY
Technical Feasibility
Economical Feasibility
Operational Feasibility
Schedule Feasibility
5.DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS& E-R DIAGRAM
6.DATA SOURCE
7. FORMS &CODING
8. TESTING
9. IMPLEMENTATION
10. MAINTENANCE
11. CONCLUSION
12. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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6. INTRODUCTION
“Sabse Kam Daam, Har Din"
Bharti Retail grows to 59 Easy Day stores
In its first phase of operations, Bharti Retail has opened 59 Easy Day stores in Punjab,
Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi. In addition, it also has launched three
compact hyper stores called Easy Day Market in Punjab.
The company has deliberately focused on north India in its first phase of operations in an
effort to consolidate presence in one market, before expanding to another region. The Easy
Day stores source fresh fruits and vegetables from Bharti-Walmart.
In an interesting HR innovation the stores plan to tap workforce from the likes of cart
vendors, housewives and retired personnel, by offering flexi-hour work schedules. Such
groups of persons will also be enrolled for structured training modules at the Bharti Retail
Academy.
'We want to be able to provide customers from all segments of society, in all parts of the
country, with a viable, smart shopping option.
Easyday India is the retail chain operated by Bharti Retail a subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises.
It opened its first retail outlet in the city of Ludhiana in 2008. [1] The first Easyday store in
South India was opened at Mysore.[2]
Easyday is franchisee model between Bharti Group and Wal-Mart. Rajan Bharti Mittal is
heading the operations in India. Have a Huge store chain in India, both supermarkets &
Hypermarkets.
Bharti Retail, a subsidiary of Sunil Mittal-promoted Bharti Enterprises, on Wednesday
launched its operations by opening first store in Ludhiana, Punjab.
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7. The stores, known as 'Easy Day', would be a one-stop shop to cater to every family's day-to-
day needs, company officials said, adding that "it will bring together a relevant and wide
product range, good quality products and great-in-experience and service-all under one
roof".
The store would sell personal care products, stationary, household articles, hosiery items,
daily-need groceries like staples, processed foods, bakery and diary products, meat and
poultry, and fresh produce.
The company had earlier announced an investment of up to 2.5 billion dollars (Rs 10,000
crore) by 2015 in retail operations including multi-format retail outlets across all cities in
India that have population of over one million.
Announcing the road map for its retail ventures in 2007, Rajan Mittal, Joint Managing
Director of Bharti Enterprises, had said that Bharti was looking at approximately 10 million
square feet of retail experience throughout the country and employing about 60,000 people.
Wednesday's launch is exclusive from Bharti's proposed joint venture with US retailer
WalMart for the back-end operations.Bharti-WalMart joint venture is likely to kick off its
cash and carry (wholesale) business in the third quarter of 2008.Under this, the two would
sell products only to other retailers and not directly to the consumers, as this is not allowed
under the existing guidelines.
In its Ludhiana store, Bharti has employed people from the local communities and
employees at the outlet have been provided intensive and structured training by Bharti
Academy of Retail, which has been set up by Bharti Retail.
About easyday and easyday Market
easyday and easyday Market stores are owned and operated by Bharti Retail, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business
groups. The company has launched more than 122 ‘easyday’ neighborhood
stores in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttara khand, Madhya
Pradesh, Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir, and 11 compact hypermarkets called
‘easyday Market’ in Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, National
Capital Region and Karnataka. easyday and easyday Markets stores promise
"Sabse Kam Daam, Har Din" and offer an extensive product mix at everyday
low prices (EDLP) which are relatively lower by at least 3 -5% on a 'monthly
basket of products' vis-a-vis similar stores.
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8. Comparative Price Chart
PRODUCT EASYDAY MRP.
5 kg ponny rice(I quality) 102 119.50
Urad dal 1 kg 27.85 32.25
Sugar 1kg 15.15 17
Moong dal 1kg 32.50 37.50
Surf excel blue 1.5 kg 91.65 135.00
Tide 1kg 43 46
Aavin butter 500 gm 61 65
Amul table butter 100 g 12.50 13
Ponds Dreamflower 100 g 25.50 28
Lifebuoy Gold 100 g 11.75 12.50
Whisper Maxi 10s 54.95 60
Colgate Dental Cream 200 g 58.95 65
Kissan Mixed Fruit Jam 200g 23.50 23.50 25
Horlicks 500 g 91.30 99
Three Roses Dust Tea 500 g 90 90 100
This is merely a representative sample. Several other brands in each category areavailable.
There is a column at the end of the bill saying: `Your savings' which gives the total
difference between easydat prices and the MRP on purchases that day.
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9. BENEFITS OF PROJECT
 The main objective of the project is to computerize the process of maintaining the
retail and take the backup whenever required
 It will keep track of all the information of the product and allow updating those details
 It will restrict any illegal entry , as there are only two levels: user operator and
administrator
 Administrator has the right to access all levels of work but operator is restricted to its
own level only
 Due to fast processing it will facilitate easy reach of facilities to the visitor and people
in the easyday
 This project show the Billing and it also Generate Bill Slip.
 It show the details of bills & sales.
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10. REQUIREMENTS OF PROJECT REPORT
Hardware Requirement:
Processor :- Intel Pentium III 833MHz
RAM :- 128 SD-RAM.
Hard Disk :- 20 GB or above.
Monitor :- 14” VGA.
Mouse :- Optical
Printer :- For print report or Bill.
Floppy Disk Drive :- 1.44MB.
Software Requirement:
Operating system : - Windows XP,Window 7.
Front End :- Visual Basic 6.0.
Back end :- MS. Access.
Constraints
GUI is only in English.
Login and password is used for identification of user and there is no facility for
guest.
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11. SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT MODEL
This model displays various phase that a system has to face during its development
Those phases are:
 ANALYSIS PHASE
 DESIGN PHASE
 CODING PHASE
 TESTING PHASE
 IMPLEMENTATION PHASE
 MAINTENANCE PHASE
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12. SYSTEM ANALYSIS
System analysis is a management technique, which helps us in designing a new system or
improving an existing system. System analysis refers to the process of examining a business
situation with the intent of improving it through better procedure and methods. Before the
planning can be done, we must thoroughly understand the existing system and determine
how computers can best be used to make its operation more effective.
System analysis is the process of gathering and interpreting facts, diagnosing problems and
using the information to recommend improvement to the system.
“Analysis specifies what the system should do.”
System analysis is a software engineering task that bridges the gap between system level
requirements engineering and software design. Requirement engineering activities result in
the specification of Software’s operational characteristic (function, data, behavior), indicate
software’s interface with their system elements, and establish constraints that software must
meet.
Requirement analysis allows the software engineer to refine the software allocation and
build models of data, functional, and behavioral domains that will be treated by software.
IDENTIFICATION OF NEED
As this is a very well known fact that this era of information technology and the world
around us is full of competition. Today, when computerization is essential in each and every
aspect of human life to keep pace with the technological changes in the world, the process
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13. and activities carried out in various business and commercial organizations also need to be
refined and automate.
Till now each and every process and different activities of the Cafeteria are carried out
manually or managed manually which need to keep records, which cause many errors and
bundles of paper work. This process may result in wastage of lot of time and money,
manpower and also it may not result accurately.
So a system was needed to overcome the problems of:
Maintain daily product purchase detail.
Maintain customer detail.
Maintain stock detail
Manually Calculation of Bill.
Due to all these above-mentioned and many other reasons this project EASYDAY RETAIL
MANAGMENT is developed. This project aims to maintain daily product detail along with
the stock detail and the customer detai
FEASIBILITY STUDY
Depending on the results of the initial investigation the survey is now expanded to a more
detailed feasibility study. “FEASIBILITY STUDY” is a test of system proposal according
to its workability, impact of the organization, ability to meet needs and effective use of the
resources. It focuses on these major questions:
What are the user’s demonstrable needs and how does a candidate system meet them?
What resources are available for given candidate system?
What are the likely impacts of the candidate system on the organization?
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14. Whether it is worth to solve the problem?
During feasibility analysis for this project, following primary areas of interest
are to be considered. Investigation and generating ideas about a new system does
this.
STEPS IN FEASIBILITY STUDY
Eight steps involved in the feasibility analysis are:
Form a project team and appoint a project leader.
Prepare system flowcharts.
Enumerate potential proposed system.
Define and identify characteristics of proposed system.
Determine and evaluate performance and cost effective of each proposed system.
Weight system performance and cost data.
Select the best-proposed system.
Prepare and report final project directive to management.
TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
A study of resource availability that may affect the ability to achieve an acceptable system.
This evaluation determines whether the technology needed for the proposed system is
available or not.
Can the work for the project be done with current equipment existing software
technology & available personal?
Can the system be upgraded if developed?
If new technology is needed then what can be developed?
This is concerned with specifying equipment and software that will
successfully satisfy the user requirement. The technical needs of the system may
include:
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15. FRONT – END- SELECTION
It must have a graphical user interface that assists employees that are not from IT
background.
Scalability and extensibility.
Flexibility.
Robustness.
According to the organization requirement and the culture.
Must provide excellent reporting features with good printing support.
Platform independent.
Easy to debug and maintain.
Event driven programming facility.
Front end must support some popular back end like Ms Access.
According to the above stated features we selected VB6.0 as the front-end for
developing our project
FRONT END TOOL:
VISUAL BASIC 6.0has been chosen as front-end tool for developing the software because
of its following important features-
Visual Basic is much-enhanced version of the BASIC Programming language and the
BASIC Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The bottom line of the
enhancement is the VB can create Windows programs whereas BASIC could only
create DOS Programs. Ok, so the modifications are very major, but the idea holds true
that Visual Basic is BASIC for Windows.
One of the many significant improvements is that VB provides massive support for
easily creating the user interface to your application. This is accomplished within the
VB Integrated Development Environment (IDE), in which you use a mouse to “draw”
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16. your application and use the keyboard to type in the code that is to be executed .The
single largest effect on coding that VB introduced was the concept of an event-driven
programming model. In the old BASIC you had to write the code to watch for the
occurrence of the user events (pressing a key, using the mouse) VB performs that
functions for you, and in fact, the only time code will execute in VB
is an response to such and event.
VB has also provided a wide variety of built-in code that programmers once had to
handle themselves. Of most significance is the built-in database handling features of
VB. It is generally accepted that over half of all VB application are written to handle
database! User will find the built-in database features of VB to be very powerful, and
that you can tap into them at whatever level of programming skill you possess.
A second area in which VB has begun to provide built-in support is that of Internet
Access. The VB features are still maturing.
One more important feature of visual basic is its debugger. A debugger is an
interactive monitoring system that you can turn on and off inside visual basic
that helps you locate statements that contains bugs.
Even before you add code, you can test your program screens (Each Form is the
basis for a screen) because Visual Basic enables you to run your programs
interactively after you create at least one Form. You can make sure that your
screens look good, and you can show your prototype to users who have
requested the program to ensure that they like what you are creating making
changes in the prototype preceding stage is much easier than making changes
after you add the code.
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17. BACK END TOOL:
MS ACCESS is chosen as back end tool for the development of the project because
of following powerful capabilities of ACCESS in database handling-
Updating the database
Retrieving information from the database
Accepting Query language statements
Enforcing data integrity specification
Enforcing transaction consistency
Managing data sharing
Optimizing queries
ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY
Economic analysis is the most frequently used technique for evaluating the effectiveness of a
proposed system. More commonly known as cost-benefit analysis; the procedure is to
determine the benefits and savings that are expected from a proposed system and compare
them with costs. If benefits outweigh costs, a decision is taken to design and implement the
system.
Cost-benefit analysis
Since cost plays an important role in deciding the new system, it must be identified and
estimated properly. Benefits are also of different types and can be grouped on the basis of
advantages they provide to the management.
Cost-saving benefit leads to reduction in administrative and operational costs.
Cost-avoidance benefits eliminate future administrative and operational costs
Improved-service-level benefits are those where the performance of the system is
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18. improved by a new computer based method e.g. servicing a customer in two minutes rather
than five to ten minutes is an example of this type of benefit.
Improved-information benefits is where computer based methods lead to better information
for decision making
Direct Or Indirect Costs And Benefits
Direct costs are those which are directly associated with a system. They are applied directly
to the operator.
Direct benefits also can be specifically attributable to a given project.
Indirect costs are not directly associated with a specific activity in the system. They are
often referred to as overhead expenses.
For example cost of space to install a system, maintenance of computer center, heat, light
and air-conditioning are all tangible costs but their proportion is difficult to calculate to a
specific activity like report.
Indirect benefitsarerealized as by-products of another system.
We can define cost-benefit analysis as: -
1. That method by which we can find and estimate the value of the gross benefits of a new
system specification.
2. That method by which we find and determine the increased operating costs associated
with the gross benefits
3. The subtraction of these operating costs from the associated gross benefits to arrive at net
benefits.
4. That method by which we find and estimate the monetary value of the development costs
that produce the benefits
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19. 5. Those methods by which we show the time-relationship between net benefits and
development costs as they relate to cash flow, payback on investment, and time-in
process taking into operation factors such as inflation etc.
2.4.2.1 COST ESTIMATION OF THE PROJECT
The primary reason for cost and schedule estimation is to enable the client or
developer to perform a cost-benefit analysis and for project monitoring and control.
Cost and schedule estimates are also required to determine the staffing level for a
project during different phases.
Cost in a project is due to the requirements for software, hardware, and human
resources. Hardware resources are such things as the computer time, terminal time and
memory required for the project, whereas software resources include the tools and the
compilers needed during development.
The bulk of the cost of software development is due to the human resources needed,
and most cost estimation procedures focus on this aspect. Most of the estimates are
determined in terms of person-months (PM)
The primary factor that controls cost is the size of the project, i.e., the larger is the
project, the higher the cost and resource requirement. Other factors that affect the cost
include programmer ability, experience of the developer in the area of interest,
complexity of the project, and reliability requirements.
The most common approach for estimating effort is to make it a function of a single
variable i.e. , the project size. The equation of effort is
EFFORT = a * SIZE b
where a and b are constants. Also,
EFFORT = a * SIZE + b
Most models have used LOC (lines of code) as the size measure.
The COCOMO (Constructive Cost Model) Model estimates the total effort in terms of
PM of the technical project staff. The basic steps in this model are: -
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20. 1) Obtain an initial estimate of the development effort from the Estimate of thousands
of delivered lines of source code.
2) Determine a set of 15 multiplying factors from different attributes of the project.
3) Adjust the effort estimate by multiplying the initial estimate with all the
multiplying factors.
The initial estimate is determined by an equation of the form used in the static single-
variable models, using KDLOC as size measure.
EFFORT = a * (KDLOC) b
The values of a and b depend on the project type.
There are 15 different attributes, called cost driver attributes, that determine the
multiplying factors: -
COST DRIVERS RATING
Very low Low Normal High Very
high
PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES 0.75 0.88 1.00 1.15 1.40
RELY, required reliability 0.94 1.00 1.08 1.16
DATA, database size 0.70 0.85 1.00 1.15 1.30
CPLX, product complexity
COMPUTER ATTRIBUTES 1.00 1.11 1.30
TIME, execution time 1.00 1.06 1.21
constraint
STOR, main storage 0.87 1.00 1.15 1.30
constraint
VITR, virtual machine 0.87 1.00 1.07 1.15
volatility
TURN, computer
turnaround time
1.46 1.19 1.00 0.86 0.71
PERSONNEL ATTRIBUTES
ACAP, analyst capability 1.29 1.13 1.00 0.91 0.82
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21. AEXP, application 1.42 1.17 1.00 0.86 0.70
experience
PCAP, programmer 1.21 1.10 1.00 0.90
capability
VEXP, virtual machine 1.14 1.07 1.00 0.95
experience
PROJECT ATTRIBUTES
MODP, modern 1.24 1.10 1.00 0.91 0.82
programming practices
TOOL, use of S/W tools 1.24 1.10 1.00 0.91 0.83
SCHED, development 1.23 1.08 1.00 1.04 1.10
schedule
The multiplying factors for all 15 cost drives are multiplied to get the effort
adjustment factor (EAF). The final effort estimate, E, is obtained by multiplying the
initial estimate with EAF: -
E = EAF * Ei
OPERATIONAL FEASIBILITY
It is mainly related to human organizations and political aspects. The points to be
considered are:
What changes will be brought with the system?
What organization structures are disturbed?
What new skills will be required? Do the existing staff members have these
skills? If not, can they be trained in due course of time?
The system is operationally feasible as it very easy for the End users to operate it. It
only needs basic information about Windows platform.
SCHEDULE FEASIBILITY
Time evaluation is the most important consideration in the development of project. The time
schedule required for the developed of this project is very important since more development
time effect machine time, cost and cause delay in the development of other systems.
A reliable EasyDay retail management can be developed in the considerable amount
of time.
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22. DESIGN PHASE
 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM
The Data Flow Diagram shows the flow of data or information. It can be partitioned into
single processes or functions. Data Flow Diagrams can be grouped together or decomposed
into multiple processes. There can be physical DFD's that represent the physical files and
transactions, or they can be business DFD's
The DFD is an excellent communication tool for analysts to model processes and functional
requirements. One of the primary tools of the structured analysis efforts of the 1970's it was
developed and enhanced by the likes of Yourdon, McMenamin, Palmer, Gane and Sarson. It
is still considered one of the best modeling techniques for eliciting and representing the
processing requirements of a system.
Used effectively, it is a useful and easy to understand modeling tool. It has broad application
and usability across most software development projects. It is easily integrated with data
modeling, workflow modeling tools, and textual specs. Together with these, it provides
analysts and developers with solid models and specs. Alone, however, it has limited
usability. It is simple and easy to understand by users and can be easily extended and refined
with further specification into a physical version for the design and development teams.
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23. SYMBOLS USED IN DFD’s
PROCESS
Depending on the level of the diagram it may represent the whole system as in a Context
diagram or a business area, process (activity), function, etc. in lower levels.
Symbol: Circle or a Rounded Rectangle.
EXTERNAL ENTITY(s)
External entities are sources or destinations of data. It refers to a person or group, which
interacts with the system and is outside the system. It is not a user.
E.g., Customer, Supplier, Government Agency, Accounting Department, The Human
Resources System, etc.
Usually external to the business or system but may be internal.
Symbol: Rectangular box which may be shaded.
DATA STORE
It refers to a repository of information. In the physical model, this represents a file, table, etc.
In the logical model, a data store is an object or entity.
Symbol: Two parallel lines, or an open-ended rectangle.
DATA FLOWS
It provides for the directional movement of data to and from External Entities, the process
and Data Stores.
In the physical model, when it flows into a data store, it means a write, update, delete, etc.
Flows out of Data Stores, mean read, query, display, select types of transaction.
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24. LEVEL-0
Purchase Received
EasyDay
Product Order
Reatil
CUSTOMER EMPLOYEE
Management
System
Received Generate
Invoice Invoice
Stock
Maintained Store
PRODUCT
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25. LEVEL 1 DFD
1.EMPLOYEE USER
LOGIN
PROCESS
2.STOCK/
EMPLOYEE PRODUCT PRODUCT
MAINTAIN
CUSTOMER
3.PURCHASE
CUSTOMER ORDER & BILL
BILLING
PROCESS
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26. Level 2
3.1
Prescription
Customer
Purchase Invoice
Order
Details
3.2
Available
Checking
Employee from Stock
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