The Development of Community Store Management Information System: A Case Study of Agricultural Demonstration Center Tha-Sao Community Store

Abstract

This research aimed to develop a cooperative shop management information system for Tha-Sao community, Sai-Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province as an application that runs on the Windows Form Application. Using C# and Microsoft SQL Server database as a development tools for data management designed to support 2 types of users: administrators and employees with different authorities to access and manage information in the system. The system was developed respectively to system development life cycle (SDLC) concept to allow the system to manage both shop and cooperative information all in one. The system consisted of 3 subsystems: a sales system, an information management system and a report system. It was tested and evaluated from both administrators and employees of the community store. The results showed that the system had a very good evaluation in all 3 aspects. The highest score went for the system efficiency (mean = 4.79, S.D. = 0.31), followed by the system usage (mean = 4.69, S.D. = 0.35) and the system design (mean = 4.63, S.D. = 0.37). In the future, web-based and warehouse system will later be added to enable the system to work more efficiently by the community request.