Question

A local cake shop has seen a recent surge in business, and it has asked you to help design a system to manage the orders. The shop currently has the capacity to make up to 4 cakes per day and a cake can be stored up to 3 days prior to an event. To avoid last minute disasters, the shop will always make cakes at least 1 day prior to the event. The shop currently has the capacity to store up to 10 cakes. Standard policy is to block out 2 hours for delivery and setup at each event. The shop currently does not have the staff to handle more than one event at a time.

Design a system that will manage customer orders and event scheduling. Consider all the factors listed in your design carefully.

1. Sketch a user interface that will show all the pertinent information to the cake shop employees.
2. Design a flow chart and pseudocode that demonstrates how the system will manage the orders and inventory.
3. Identify any bottlenecks in the process

Answer 1

Given That,

A local cake shop has seen a recent surge in business and it has asked you to help design a system to manage the orders

The shop currently has the capacity to make up to 4 cakes per day and a cake can be stored up to 3 days prior to an event

Now here to develop any project first we have to identify the entities which comes into the play role as an actor then we need to find the actions what actors can performs

Here in this case actions and actors

Actors;

• Customers
• Shop manager/ Shop management Team

Actions ;

• Customer can place order
• shop manager can take Order   

If we get the sucess to find the actors and actions list then we have to find out the information that can be shared between actors.in this case l  

Information:

• Customer Information
• .Order Information
• Events and their price list
• Items categories and their price list i.e cake and its prices

Once we gather the information then we have to make relationships between different information which can be used by any actor to perform any action.

Relationship;

• Customer to Order relationship
• Order and Event relationship
• Items and thier pirce list
• Customer and Event relationship

Once we perform the above activities then we can finalize the User Interface or different forms that can be used to helps use to feed the information

as discussed above in the system

In this case, we will have following forms

• Customer-Order form
• Order Validation Dialogs
• Create Event form
• Event Validation Dialogs

Event Notification Window

Here the flowchart shows a user interface that will show all the pertinent information to the cake shop employees.

Flow Chart

Bottlenecks ;

Now Here we Identify bottlenecks in the process;

One of the main bottlenecks which shop owner can face is , how they maintians the shop stock when it goes out of stock or new cakes introduced in the shop.