RestaurantInventory

Restaurant Inventory System

HOW TO BUILD

• Sync the code
• Open InventoryManager.sln in vs10
• Build it in debug.

HOW TO RUN

• Open the folder Output_Executable.
• Create files mentioned above. Sample files are already created in Resources folder(Just for running with default test cases).
• Run the executable (InventoryManager.exe).
• Keep on providing order file names for each day, eg. Order, Order_1. When you want to stop type "NONE" without quotes.
• Output file names with output data will be shown on the console.

INITIAL DESCRIPTION

• For flexibility I have implemented the whole system using files. Here is the description of files used. RestaurantsList.txt --> Format[RestaurantName(string)]. It will give the name of the restaurants. For each restaurant we should have files: * _Menu.txt --> Format[MenuItemName(string)] For each menuItem name we should have a file: ./MenuItems/.txt --> Format [Ingredient Name, Ingredient quantity] * _Ingredients_stocked.txt --> Format[ingredient name, expiry date, quantity] * _Ingredients_Required.txt --> Format[ingredient name, quantity]. This file stores the average of ingredients required per day for a give restaurant.

  This will create the structure with restaurants, their menuItems with proper ingredients required and initial stock of ingredients.

• Orders will be read from the file given by user, but it should have format[date(yyyymmdd), time(hhmm), Menu Item Name, Item quantity to order, restaurant Name]

DESCRIPTION OF CODE AND CONCEPTS USED

• RestaurantsManager is a singleton class which is taking care of adding the restaurants and its menu items. It is also used to place orders and restocking of ingredients.
• I have declared a function pointer in each restaurant which take the function used for restocking the ingredients.
• Different files are used to provide run time flexibility and scalability. User can add any number of restaurants, menu items and ingredients using these files.
• In my restocking algorithm function, I took the average of ingredients required till previous day and based on that I calculated how much ingredients I have to stock more. And these calculations are stored in the file _Ingredients_Required.txt.
• Once the ingredient expired it is not further being used.
• Ingredient items are sorted daily based on expirty date. This is done so that the items which are going to expire soon will be used first.