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Abstract

The ProPest Co. Ltd, is an Executive Agency of the India's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, administers the regulation of agricultural, horticultural, forestry, food storage and home garden pesticides to supply throughout the world. The principal functions of ProPest is to evaluate and process applications for approval of pesticide products and can be used across the world and provide advice to Government on pesticides policy.

The Distribution Channel Management System is a web-based system, designed for ProPest Co. ltd, which gives information relating to the clients and dealers of the company with respect to its pesticides product launches. This product develops a system that can be used by the company management to keep track of the sales, dealers and its clients. In the existing method of tracking of all the details are tedious and time consuming. Any product survey and launching of the area carried out manually by representatives, which is a time taking task. It fulfills different requirements of management, client and dealers of the company. The specific purpose of the system is to automate the communication between the management, clients and the dealers of the organization.

The key entities of this system are company management / administration department, employees, dealers and clients. The activities relating to this system are listing of various dealers of the company, its branches, its clients and providing expertise suggestion on the usage of the product, update product, providing instructions to the dealers and many additional tasks which supplement the above functions.
An application has to be developed which would minimize the flaws of the existing system. This project would automate the operations of the management and would retain the present functionality available in the current system.

The scope of this project is to enable the user of an organization to view the issues through the LAN/Internet. Based on the category of the user i.e. employee or administrator, the various parts of the system are made available to the users.

Purpose

The purpose of the product, Distributed Channel Management System is to automate the interaction between the end user, company management, and authorized dealers for the company which promotes crop and pesticides product. It provides a full-fledged system for the communication with dealers and end users. This system also promotes new products launched by the company. The scope of this product includes three areas of the company, which are marketing department, sales department, and accounting department. It forms a module in the entire system which includes a limited functionality of the above given departments.

4.2 Scope:
Distributed channel management system provide proper channel for the client, dealer and the company management to communicate among themselves. This software product has been designed to provide specific services to the end user.

The scope of the system includes three areas of the company that are Marketing department, Sales department and accounting department. The main intention of this system is to automate the services of the company which will reach the clients and dealers easily besides being advantageous to the company itself.

4.2.1 Existing System with Limitations:

 To collect feedback of a product manually requires more man power. Time consuming effort. Publicity for a new product launch manually is time consuming and tedious job. Data should be maintained with each and every dealer which increases redundancy and reduces consistency

4.2.2 Proposed System features:

In order to avoid unnecessary delay and minimize the flaws that existed in the previous system a follow up module for the existing system has been designed called the Distribution Channel Management System which takes concern for the customer service and the distribution of products to the various dealers and clients. The main intention of the proposed system is to automate the communication and distribution channel between the company management, dealers and the clients of the company.

The newly designed system mainly aims at the following tasks: Automate the communication between the clients and the company. Obtain feed back from the clients and dealers Generate reports from dealers with specific requirement Provide updated details of the company products Generate and report the sales data in accordance with the specific dealers and product. Obtain workshop details. Attain each and every query of the user.

Additional functions of the system are to generate the report for the management of the company to keep track of sales and the product distribution.