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

2. System Request  Project Sponsor: Michael Moore, President  Organization: Reader’s Outpost  Phone: 281-954-0003  Email: mmoore@readersoutpost.com

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

6. Context Level DFD

7. 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

8. Level 0 DFD

9. 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

10. Level 1 Process 1 DFD

11.  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)

12. Level 1 Process 5 DFD

13.  1 External Entity  Employees  4 Processes  3.1.1 Input Book information using SKU  3.1.2 Enter Quantity  3.1.3 Determine Discounts  3.1.4 Determine Sales Total  4 Data Store  D1 - Books  D3 - Transaction  D4 – Transaction Detail Level 2 Process 3.1 (Process Sale)

14. Level 2 Process 3 DFD

15. Questions?