The Inventory & Warehouse Management System (IWMS) is a web-based business management application built to help organizations efficiently manage products, inventory, warehouses, purchasing, receiving, sales, and stock movements from a single platform.
The primary goal of the system is to replace manual processes such as paper records and spreadsheets with a centralized, real-time inventory management solution.
Many small and medium-sized businesses still manage inventory using notebooks, spreadsheets, or disconnected software. This creates problems including:
- Inaccurate inventory counts
- Overstocking
- Stock shortages
- Lost or misplaced inventory
- Duplicate purchasing
- Slow warehouse operations
- Lack of accountability
- No audit trail
- Difficult reporting
- Poor purchasing decisions
The proposed system addresses these issues by automating inventory operations and maintaining a single source of truth.
The system aims to:
- Centralize inventory data.
- Track stock levels in real time.
- Manage warehouses and storage locations.
- Streamline purchasing and receiving.
- Record every stock movement.
- Improve inventory accuracy.
- Generate business reports.
- Support role-based access control.
- Maintain an audit trail for accountability.
The system includes:
- Products
- Categories
- Brands
- Units of Measure
- Barcode / SKU support
- Multiple Warehouses
- Warehouse Locations
- Stock per Warehouse
- Suppliers
- Purchase Orders
- Purchase Order Items
- Approval Workflow
- Goods Receiving
- Stock Movements
- Inventory Adjustments
- Stock Transfers
- Stock Counts
- Customers
- Sales Orders
- Sales Order Items
- Users
- Roles
- Permissions
- Audit Logs
- Inventory Valuation
- Low Stock Report
- Fast-moving Products
- Slow-moving Products
- Purchase Reports
- Sales Reports
- Supplier Reports
- Inventory is checked manually.
- Purchasing decides what to order.
- Purchase Orders are created manually.
- Suppliers deliver products.
- Warehouse staff manually count received items.
- Products are stored.
- Sales reduce inventory manually.
- Periodic physical inventory is performed.
- Reports are created manually.
- Products are maintained in the system.
- Low-stock alerts notify purchasing.
- Purchase Orders are created digitally.
- Managers approve Purchase Orders.
- Suppliers deliver goods.
- Warehouse staff receive deliveries into the system.
- Inventory updates automatically.
- Sales automatically deduct inventory.
- Every inventory movement is recorded.
- Managers monitor dashboards and reports.
- Authentication & RBAC
- Dashboard
- Product Management
- Supplier Management
- Customer Management
- Warehouse Management
- Purchasing
- Receiving
- Inventory Management
- Sales Management
- Reporting
- Audit Logging
- Administrator
- Purchasing Officer
- Purchasing Manager
- Warehouse Manager
- Warehouse Staff
- Sales Representative
- Sales Manager
- Inventory Controller
- Finance Officer
- General Manager
- Laravel
- Filament
- PostgreSQL
- Laravel Queue
- Laravel Notifications
By completing this project, you will gain experience with:
- Laravel architecture
- Filament Resources
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Database design
- Eloquent relationships
- Transactions
- Business workflows
- Dashboards
- Reporting
- Audit logging
- Enterprise application development
- Barcode scanning
- QR code labels
- Mobile warehouse application
- Supplier portal
- Customer portal
- Email notifications
- Inventory forecasting
- Demand prediction
- Purchase recommendations
- Multi-company support
- API integrations