These are projects posted by the students of Dr. Gove Allen at Brigham Young University. These students have taken one semester-long course on VBA and generally have had no prior programming experience

Monday, April 11, 2016

Inventory Management System for Home Kitchens

Executive Summary:


Most home kitchens do not have the resources to implement an inventory management system. Kitchens run without an effective inventory system can lead to spoiled food, which equates to lost money. The Inventory Management System I created in Excel/VBA creates a cost effective method to control inventory which by reducing the amount of wasted food, significantly reduces the grocery bill. I have been using this system for the past several months and I have reduced my food bill from about $1,500 to about $1,000 (I have a big family, 7 total). The inventory system uses weekly meal planning and the current inventory to identify items which need to be purchased, and it then generates a grocery list based on these items. In general, the grocery list specifies the ingredients which must be purchased to cook the meals specified by the weekly planning.


There are several additional tools which supplement the weekly meal planning tool. These tools are the manual and online meal Inputs. These tools allow the user to add meals to the database which can then be selected by the weekly meal planning tool. Additionally, an ingredient input tool allows a user to add an ingredient to the Inventory, which then allows the user to select that ingredient for a meal. Additionally, if desired the user can eliminate/delete a particular meal from the database through a tool located within the weekly meal planning tool. After deleting a meal, it can no longer be selected on the weekly planning tool. Additional details and how the tools work together can be found in the “Inventory Management System Details” section.

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