Reference no: EM131081784

Zawawi Group Transport Management System

Zawawi Group is one of the top group companies in the sultanate of Oman. This company has different has operations across the country. The group company has a subsidiary Oman Zawawi transport L.L.C. which caters to the transport requirement of the group. This company owns a fleet of vehicles, which includes truck, buses, cars, and yans. The trucks are used to transport the goods to various places, and the buses are used to pick up employees at various factory location. Some cars are given to employees for their daily use, Some cars are given to employees for their daily use, and some are used as pick up customers and visitors. The vans are used as pick up for local goods movement at various factories.

There are five departments in Transport Company namely the purchase department, the admission department, the finance department, the customer care department and the vehicles servicing department. The following are activities of each department.

Purchase Department:- The purchase department submits the audit expenses of the previous year on the basis of which the budget is allocated, the budget includes cost towards the purchase of new cars, spare parts, salaries to the employees and other administrative costs. The budget takes into account the revenue from the sales of old vehicles. The purchase department purchases the new vehicles, gets them registered and hand over to the administration for use. The finance department settles the bit

Administration Department:- The administration department allocates the vehicles for the usages. These vehicles are located at the various offices and factories. The vehicles are identified by unique registration numbers. A unique employee number identifies a driver in the company.

Finance Department:- The finance Department records each vehicle, its current value, replacement value, date of purchase, warranty details etc. This department is more responsible for settling bills for the vehicles which are already purchased by the purchase department serviced by the vehicles servicing department, payment towards drivers etc.

Vehicles Servicing Department:- The service department is responsible for giving regular services to each vehicle. If the vehicles are vehicles are involved in accidents, details of repairs carried out are recorded. This department also maintains the inventory of parts used frequently for servicing.

SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

Assignment Details

A. A group report detailing the proposed logical system for the transport management described.

The following must be included in the report:

1. Process Model comprising of
- A statement of aim and objectives of the system
- A Context Diagram
- A set of Dataflow diagrams of Level-1 and Level-2 depicting the current system including
- External entity definitions
- Dataflow descriptions
- Data store contents
- Process descriptions

2. A Data Model detailing the data structure required to support the current information and process requirements comprising of:
- An Entity Relationship Diagram
- Entity Descriptions
- Appropriate attributes for each entity indicating primary and foreign keys
- Specify the optionality, cardinality and nature of the relationships between entities

3. Class Diagram
- Identify the main classes and represent these in a UML class diagram
- Identify methods and attributes for each class in the class diagram
- Identify relationships between classes

4. Construct a High - Level Use Case Diagram
- Identify main actors
- Identify main functions

5. Additional marks will be awarded for the professionalism of the report, its presentation and format, and adherence to reporting standards.