| dc.description.abstract | National Irrigation Board (NIB) is a government non-strategic organization
responsible in development and management of irrigation settlement schemes
in Kenya.
Agricultural machinery workshop system is a core business in the organisation.
The JI110untof data kept by the Workshop department is usually huge and
overwhelms the current manual system. It is tedious to obtain vital
information and follow up the status of the various processes in procurement
of Machinery spares among other items and their issuance. With the advent of
IT and motivated by changes in the current business environment,
()rs~mizations have to restructure their operations in order to operate more
efficiently and C£fectivelyto take control of d.u.i and business process. The
Workshop department therefore needs an automated system; to enable the
organization track and fore cast materials procurement from suppliers and
usagepatterns within the organization to reduce cost and W:1stage.
Workshop Information System (WIS), has been developed based on relational
data,
Microsoft access 2000 was used as the Data Base Management System
(DBMS).
The overall system included Workshop system, Stores system and Supplies
systems combined.
It's hoped that there is a lot for every one to learn from the chapters that
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