Reliance Mart Is One Such Subsidiary
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The Reliance Group founded by Dhirubhai H.Ambani (1932-2002), is India’s largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. The company Reliance Industries Limited was co-founded by Dhirubhai Ambani and his brother Champaklal Damani as Reliance Commercial Corporation. In 1965 the partnership was ended and DhiruBhai continued. Reliance was established as a textile concerns in the year 1966. This company followed a diversified a diversification strategy since its inception. It vertically integrated. This resulted in formation of many subsidiaries. Reliance Mart is one such subsidiary. Reliance Mart is a part of the Reliance Industries is actually the largest conglomerate in India. Reliance mart is the subsidiary company of Reliance Industries. Founded in 2006 and based in Mumbai, It is the largest retailer in India in terms of revenue. Its retail outlets offer foods, groceries, apparel and footwear, lifestyle and home improvement products, electronic goods and farm implements and inputs. The company’s outlets also provide vegetables, fruits and flower. It focuses on consumer goods, consumer durables, travel services, energy, entertainment and leisure, and health and well being products, as well as on educational products and services. Backward vertical integration has been the cornerstone of the evolution and growth of Reliance. Starting with textiles in the late seventies, Reliance pursued a strategy of backward vertical integration – in polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics, petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production – to be fully integrated along the materials and energy value chain. The group’s activities span exploration and production of oil and gas, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, fibre intermediaries, plastics and chemicals), Textiles, retail and special economic zones. Reliance enjoys global leadership in his businesses, being the largest polyester yarn and fibre producer in the world and among the top five to ten producers the world in major petrochemical products. Major group companies are reliance industries limited (including main subsidiaries reliance petroleum limited and reliance retail limited) and reliance industries infrastructure limited. Reliance retail is a subsidiary of reliance industries limited. It is the largest private sector conglomerate of India. 1 COMPANY PROFILE NAME OF THE COMPANY: RELIANCE MART ADDRESS: Fun republic Mall, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641004. YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT: 2006 NAME OF THE FOUNDER: DhiruBhai H.Ambani SECTOR: Private sector BRANCHES: 2000 stores in India KEY PEOPLE: Mukesh Ambani (chairman and MD) BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Nita M.ambani, Hital R. Meswani, Nikhil R.Meswani, P.M.S. Prasad, P.K.Kapil, R.A.Mashelkar, Adil Zainulbhai, Mansingh L.Bhakta, Dipak C.jain, Dharam vir kapur, Yogendra P.Trivedi, Ashok Misra, Raminder S. Gujral. PARENT: Reliance Industries Limited DIVISIONS: Reliance Time out, Reliance Digital, Reliance wellness, Reliance super, Reliance mart, Reliance I-store. HEAD QUARTERS: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India AREA SERVED: Worldwide EMPLOYEES: 100 to 150 PRODUCTS: foods, groceries, apparel and footwear, lifestyle and home improvement products, electronic goods. 2 1.1ABOUT THE PROJECT The replacement of SAP programming database with the Visual Basic.Net programming database. This development of the software is for the management of the hypermarket. The hypermarket management system involves various entries for the correct accounting of the product which comes into the concern and goes out. All such activities are notified by using authorities and made listed in the Systems, Application and Products i.e., SAP. To make the concern work simpler and more efficient ways this is been going replace with Visual Basic. Net. MODULES EMPLOYEE DETAILS PURCHASE ORDER DETAILS VENDOR DETAILS GOODS RECEIVED NOTE DETAILS BILLING DETAILS CARD HOLDER DETAILS PRODUCT DETAILS PRODUCT RETURN DETAILS 3 1.2 ABOUT THE COMPANY With a vision to generate inclusive growth and prosperity for farmers, vendor partner, small shopkeepers and consumers, Reliance mart a subsidiary was set up to lead Reliance Group into organised retail. With a 27% of world GDP, retail is the significant contributor to overall economic activity across the world. Of this, organized retailing contributes between 20% to 53% in various developing markets. RRL launched its first store in November 2006 through store format ‘Reliance Mart’. Since then RRL has rapidly grown to operate 590 stores across 13 states at the end of 2008. RRL launched its first ‘Reliance digital’ store in April 2007 and the India’s largest hyper market ‘Reliance Mart’. On an average, turnover of the reliance mart is Rs 50,000 per day, each store, whereas compared to other cities. The main aim is to provide good quality products at lower price strive continually for service and satisfaction. According to Reliance Mart manager, it was satisfying around most of the customers expectation. The Reliance Mart has positioned itself as a convenience store located in middle class neighbourhoods. It has a total of 2000 stores in India with an area of approx 9 million square feet across 155 cities. Dhirubhai Ambani founded reliance as textile company and led its evolution as a global leader in the material and energy value chain businesses. The concern is credited to have brought about the equity cult in India in the late seventies and is regarded as an icon for enterprise in India. The Reliance Group is a living testimony to his indomitable will, single-minded dedication and an unrelenting commitment to his goals. Reliance retail is the retail business of reliance industries. There are many brand names under this business such as Reliance I-store, Reliance Home Kitchens, Reliance Time Out, Reliance Digital, Reliance wellness, Reliance Trends etc. Reliance was established as a textile concerns in the year 1966 by Dhirubhai H.Ambani. This company followed a diversified a diversification strategy since its inception. It is vertically integrated. This resulted in formation of many subsidiaries. Reliance Mart is one such subsidiary. Reliance Mart is a part of the Reliance Industries is actually the largest conglomerate in India. It has an annual turnover of US$35.9 billion. It is also listed on 206th position in the Fortune Global 500 companies. The company started off as a small textile company around 30 years ago. And now it has expanded vertically and horizontally to be India’s Numero-uno. Reliance Retail is actually the retail group of Reliance industries Limited. It has a number of brands like Reliance Time out, Reliance Digital, Reliance wellness, Reliance super, Reliance mart, Reliance I-store. 4 CHAPTER 2 SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT System study is a process of gathering the facts concerning the system breaking into elements and relationship between elements. It provides a framework for visualizing the organizational and environmental factors which operate on a system. System study is for finding out what happens in the existing system, deciding what changes and new features are required and defining exactly what the proposed system must be. The process of the task is largely concerned with determining, developing and agreeing to the user’s requirements. The system study focuses on each stage on the system development cycle. System analysis is the study of sets of interacting entities, including computer based system analysis. System analysis in the field of electrical engineering characterizes electrical systems and their properties. 5 2.1 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION The hardware specification is to support the proposed system, which have been identified, ordered, delivered, installed and tested at the time of specification. The software specification is one which says about the development environment of the package. HARDWARE SPECIFICATION PROCESSOR : Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.8 GHz RAM : 4 GB DDR3 RAM HARD DISK DRIVE : 160 GB MONITOR : 17” Color TFT Monitor KEYBOARD : Multimedia Keyboard 100 Keys SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION FRONTEND : VB.NET BACK END : Microsoft access 2002 OPERATING SYSTEMS : Microsoft Windows 8 6 2.2 SOFTWARE FEATURES FRONT-END Visual Basic NET Visual Basic NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented computer programming language viewed as an evolution of the classic visual basic (VB), which is implemented on the .NET Framework. Microsoft currently supplies two main editions of IDEs for developing in visual basic. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 which is commercial software and visual basics and express edition 2010, which is free of charge .The command line compiler, VBE.EXE, is installed as a part of freeware .NET framework SDK. Mono also includes the command line VB.NET compiler. Need for .Net The need to have .Net in today’s world is to overcome the short comings faced in the form of internet being used currently. • Makes programming easier • Used to build reusable web services. • Web services can be written in any programming language-supports interoperability. • The same web services works with all devices, eliminating the need to write a different version for every device. • .Net experience makes it easy to add new interface techno Goals of Vb.Net • Creating a highly distributed applications • Simplifying software development • Better user interface over the web • Simplifying Deployment. Vb.Net initiative The .Net initiative offers a complete suite for developing and deploying applications. They are • .Net products