Introduction
The project we have chosen "Pharmacy Management System", otherwise called the medical data system, is
a client/server-based application. This project is being created to deal with all activities of a medical store. It
will have the essential module to deal with the medical store measures. The system will be a standalone
system and is intended to apply innovation to help the pharmacists and the store to decrease the human
work and computerize the billing. The motivation behind this undertaking is to deal with all information
inferred for a pharmacy to keep up their business through the system instead of recording their information
physically which is more dangerous to the business to keep up and to evade misfortune. This system will be
used in the rural areas of South Africa as the urban areas already have systems like this already in use (Kanbar
et al.,2016).
The user requires his username and password from the administrator. The administrator will likewise give
the name, address, telephone/mobile number and NIC number to gain access to the application. On the off
chance that the user cannot give these prerequisites, the user will not have the option to utilize the
application. In this system, we have four kinds of users’, administrator, manager, pharmacist, cashier who
have their individual work to perform and keeping in mind that signing into the application, the user should
realize the assignment to log in. This project is understanding the design and implementation of a Pharmacy
Management System. This is done by making a database of the accessible medicines in the shop. The
essential point of the pharmacy management system is to improve exactness, wellbeing, and proficiency in
a pharmaceutical store (Kanbar et al.,2016).
There are a ton of discrepancies of items in the stock, it is difficult for them to perceive all their client records.
Having request of week after week month to month and yearly reports will be mixed and not easily
accessible. Because of the difficulties which cause to limit a business benefit I found an answer on how they
can lessen risk and augment their benefit through a pharmacy management system (Kanbar et al.,2016).
Aim
The aim of this project is to implement a pharmacy management system to improve accuracy and upgrade
security and proficiency in the pharmaceutical store.
The fundamental point of the project is the management of the database of the pharmaceutical shop. This
undertaking is knowledge into the structure and execution of a Pharmacy Management System. This is done
by creating a database of the accessible medications in the shop.
Problem definition
We have explored various drug stores in rural and urban areas and perceived that most urban areas use
pharmacy management systems in place. However, most pharmacies in rural areas record their data
manually. This kind of recording information causes them to acquire more loss and they not able to decide
whether they incurred that loss or not for the individuals who have a huge load of medication (Kanbar et
al.,2016).
There are approximately 18 972 rural areas in South Africa as seen from a study that was conducted in 2014.
More than half of these rural areas do not have proper pharmacy management systems. These pharmacies
located in the rural areas are still using pen and paper as a means of a management system. Our system will
be mainly intended for use in these rural areas. This system will be affordable and efficient for these
pharmacies (Anon, 2020).
