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SCHOOL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

NOOR HARTINI BINTI SHAMSUDIN

A report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of

Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Engineering)

Faculty of Computer Systems & Software Engineering

Universiti Malaysia Pahang

JUNE 2012
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ABSTRACT

Asset item devided two categories, inventory and model asset.At the school
stationeries are used very commonly by people in an office. SAMS is a system from
manual to computerized system.It is developed for staffs of the school to take any
asset item such as stationeries they need and management of items at the
school.Current practice use manual forms of log books to keep records of stationeries
taken by staffs. This method burdens staffs who want to take stationeries from school
counter. SAMS was the solution to this problem. This system can help staffs in the SK
USJ20 manage the procedure of taking stationeries because one of the objectives of
this project is to computerized the manual form asset stationeries item taken by staffs.
Therefore, this system is will be very helpful and can make the management of asset
stationeries item run smoothly. SAMS is developed by using Adobe Dreamweaver
CS3 and Xampp Server.
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ABSTRAK

Pendaftaran item Aset dibahagikan dua kategori, inventori dan asset. Peralatan
menulis adalah peralatan yang biasa digunanakan oleh orang-orang di pejabat. Ia
termasuk didalam harta modal sekolah. SAM S adalah satu sistem yang dibina untuk
memudahkan pihak sekolah terutama pembantu tadbir menguruskan harta dan modal
kerajaan sekolah.Sistem berkomputer dibangunkan untuk kakitangan sekolah untuk
mengambil apa-apa butiran aset seperti alat tulis yang mereka perlukan dan
pengurusan item di dalam sekolah.Sekolah menggunakan sistem manual seperti
manual buku log untuk menyimpan rekod alat tulis diambil oleh kakitangan. Kaedah
ini membebankan kakitangan yang ingin mengambil alat tulis dari sekolah. SAM S
adalah penyelesaian kepada masalah ini. Sistem ini boleh membantu staf di USJ20 SK
menguruskan prosedur mengambil alat tulis kerana salah satu objektif projek ini
adalah untuk berkomputer yang bentuk alat tulis item aset yang diambil oleh
kakitangan. Oleh itu, sistem ini sangat membantu dan boleh membuat pengurusanitem
harta modal sekolah dan alat tulis berjalan lancar. SAMS dibangunkan dengan
menggunakan Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 dan Xampp Server.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

ABSTRAK
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background 2
1.2 Problem Statement 3
1.3 Objective 3
1.4 Scope 4
1.5 Thesis Organization 5
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction 6
2.2 Understanding about Asset and Asset Management 8
2.2.1 Asset 8
2.2.2 Asset Management 9
2.2.3 Asset Management Flow 10
2.3 Review Inventory asset management 11
2.4 Motivation to Develop System 12
2.5 Review Sample of the Asset Management System 13
2.5.1 Asset Management System ( AssetWin) 14
2.5.2 MBSJ Asset Management 15
2.6 Techniques 16
2.6.1 SDLC Waterfall Model 18
2.6.2 Unified Modeling Language 20
2.6.3 Rapid Application Development ( RAD ) 22
2.6.4 Comparison between Waterfall and RAD 24
2.7 Tools for Development 25
2.7.1 Database 25
2.7.1.1 MySQL 25
2.7.1.2 Oracle 26
2.7.1.3 Comparison between DB MySQL &
Oracle 27
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2.7.2 Summary on Programming Tools 27

2.7.2.1 Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 27
2.7.2.2 Adobe Photoshop 28
2.7.3 Web Server 29
2.7.3.1 Easy PHP 29
2.7.3.2 XAMPP 28
2.7.4 Programming Language 28
2.7.4.1 PHP ( Hypertext Preprocessor ) 28
2.7.4.2 ASP.NET 28
2.7.4.3 JSP 29
2.7.4.4 Comparison between PHP, ASP.NET ,JSP 29
2.8 Chapter Summary 29
3 METHODOLOGY
3.1 Introduction 30
3.2 Project Methodology 31
3.3 Rapid Development Methodology 33
3.3.1 Requirement Planning 33
3.3.2 User Design 35
3.3.2.1 System Module 36
3.3.2.1.1 Login Module 37
3.3.2.1.2 Booking module 39
3.3.2.1.3 Staff management 40
3.3.2.1.4 Asset Management 41
3.3.2.1.5 Generate report
3.3.2.1.6 Approval Booking 42
3.3.2.2 Propose System ( Design of SAMS) 43
3.3.3 Construction 43
3.3.4 Cutover 45
3.4 Development Tools 46
3.4.1 Software Tools 46
3.4.2 Hardware Tools 47
3.5 Conclusion 48
4 SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING
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4.1 Introduction 50
4.2 System Interface 51
4.3 Scripting Techniques 53
4.3.1 Declaration of Variable in PHP 53
4.3.2 SQL Statements 54
5 CONTRIBUTION,FUTURE RESEARCH
5.1 Introduction 55
5.2 Result Analysis 56
5.3 Output and Result 56
5.4 System Constraints 65
5.5 Suggestion and project enhancement 65
5.6 Conclusion 66
6 CONCLUSION 67
REFERENCES

LIST OF THE APPENDICES

APPENDIX TITLE PAGE

A GANTT CHART 70
B USER MANUAL 74
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LIST OF TABLES

TABLES NO TITLE PAGE

2.1 Comparable on Information Captured 16
2.2 Comparison between Waterfall and RAD 23
2.3 Advantage and Disadvantage MySQL 24
2.4 Comparison between MySQL and Oracle 25
2.5 Comparison between PHP, ASP.NET and JSP 29
3.1 Software Requirements 47
3.2 Hardware Requirements 47
4.1 Explaination of the System Modules 50
5.1 Expected Results by Each Module 57
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LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE NO TITLE PAGE

2.2 Five Type of Asset 9
2.3 Asset Management 9
2.4 The Asset Management Process Flow 10
2.5 Master Catalog - Edit 14
2.6 Location Code Data Add 14
2.7 MBJB asset management system 15
2.8 Waterfall Diagram 17
2.9 UML Diagram 19
2.1 RAD Diagram 21
3.1 Step of RAD 31
3.2 Context Diagram of SAMS 34
3.3 Use Case Diagram of SAMS 35
3.4 Login use case diagram 36
3.5 Booking Asset Item use case diagram 37
3.6 Staff Management use case diagram 39
3.7 Asset Management use case diagram 40
3.8 Approved Booking use case diagram 41
3.9 Design of SAMS (Staff ) 43
3.1 Design of SAMS ( Admin ) 43
4.1 Interface of the System ( Admin ) 50
4.2 Interface of the system ( Staff ) 51
4.3 Declaration of login system 52
4.4 INSERT SQL Statement 52
4.5 DELETE SQL Statement 53
4.6 SELECT SQL Statement 53
4.7 UPDATE SQL Statement 53
5.1 Interface of Staff Management Module 58
5.2 Interface of Register New Staff 59
5.3 Interface of Deleting Staff 59
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5.4 Interface of Item Management 60

5.5 Interface of Add New Item 60
5.6 Interface Restock Item 61
5.7 Interface for View Details 61
5.8 Interface of Edit Item 62
5.9 Interface of Delete Items 62
5.1 Interface of Staff User Profile 63
5.11 Interface of Items ( Staff ) 63
5.12 Interface of Bookings ( Staff ) 64
5.13 Item Details ( Staff ) 64
5.14 Interface of Status Booking ( Staff ) 65
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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

The School Asset Management System( SAMS ) is proposed to be used by the

primary and secondary school in Malaysia. Asset in school is divided by two
categories the first is inventory stationery and second modal asset. Inventory asset is
defined as any materials, such as paper,envelopes,pens, ink, rulers, etc. System is
defined as an organized and coordinated method,or a set object or phonemena
grouped together for classification or registration. SK USJ20 is acronym for Sekolah
Kebangsaan USJ 20 the school is a group learning Institute under direct jurisdiction
of the Ministry of Education Malaysia. The financial management and asset the school
has been discovered by management of Ministry of education.

The asset inventories such as stationeries are used very commonly by people
working in an office. At the SK USJ20 in Subang Jaya Selangor, stationaries are
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supplied for the use staffs. School Asset Management System ( SAMS ) in an asset
booking and registeration system developed for staffs of the school to take stationeries
they need, keep booking and view the stationaries available. Other then that
administrator responsible to approve the booking asset item. This system is a
computerized the manual system asset management.

School Asset Management System is a web based system developed by

HTML, PHP and JavaScript scripting languages. The system interacts with a database
using Server Query Language ( SQL ).

1.2 Problem Statement

The problem statement described for the conflict asset management of the
school and problem which manage to the need simplify, record and printing certificate
of each asset. Currently, a school asset management system at the school is performed
manually, through a manual process. This, however makes the process laborious and
time consuming.

The manual process normally will involve extensive paperwork and is prone to
human error. The Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel which currently used to record
information of an asset sometimes can be mistaken , incomplete and miscalculate as
well as non - integrated. It is also also troublesome tedious to trace the physical asset
and track their movement.

According the problem discovered above, vulnerabilities arise because of the

manual process flows and its effect on almost all categories of user such as the
applicant, an administration office and staff.

Basically, there are two foremost statement of the problem which is to be solved by a
proposed system ;

i. How the School Asset Management System, can be used to be improved and
simplify the current process.

ii. How and what asset information can be integrated and shared among process
or user.
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Seeing such problems exist among the users, it motivates the author to develop
SAMS, which is a computerized system solution that is developed based on Rapid
Application Development ( RAD )

1.3 Objective

There are two objectives identify in this study, which is :

i. To develop based system computerized School Asset Management
System for SK USJ20.
ii. To produce Software Development Planning, Software Requirements
Specification and Software Design Documentation.

1.4 Scope

The scopes are defined as the boundary of the functionality, user system and
database. These elements are important to make sure that the scopes of the system do
not override the boundaries of the system. For User scopes elements, above shows the
scopes of the user involved. This system is a web-based application. It can be accessed
via the Intranet so that staffs can make bookings before taking items from the counter
whom the person eel in command of the system manage the inventory asset item. It
has security elements whereas only authorized users can view the specific amount of
the content of this web-based application based on their user level of the system. In the
database framework, its contains a feq table the record the data history, information,
staff details and item details. All documentations are referring to Software Engineering
such as SDP,SRS, and SDD

i. Administrator

a. School admin uses this system to insert, update and delete the information
such as asset details, and record all new assets issued.
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b. Manages staff such as register new staff, updated staff details and delete
staffs.
c. All school assets must to record and register for each asset such as
computer, laptop and so on.
d. Admin can view all request assets of the applicant before sending
e. Admin will have to to handle the booking asset when that requested
approved.

ii. School Staff

a. Staf can make bookings of items before taking them from the
administrator.
b. View status booking of users taken items.

1.5 Thesis Organization

The thesis consists of five chapters presented. An overview of the following chapters
is as follows:

Chapter 1 is about the introduction of the system. In this chapter, the problem
statement, objective and scope will be identified.

In chapter 2 , briefly explains about the reviews for the chosen project. This chapter
is reviews that require to study to get complete information about the project. This
chapter also explains about the technology that can use during the project development.

The methodology in chapter 3 purpose of this chapter is to discuss what

methodology will be used while develop this system. Discussed on software process or
flow process for School Asset Management System for Sekolah Kebangsaan USJ20. This
chapter also explains about the justification of methodology used and hardware and
software necessity.
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Chapter 4 involves implementation that discusses about compilation of the processes

involved in the project. This chapter involves data, the techniques of data and table that
based on SQL and PHP tools instructions.

Chapter 5 involves decision and discussion that elaborate about the result from stay
analysis that have done by project research. The elements that should have in this chapter
include result analysis, the problems of build project, and project solved. The last chapter
is conclusion. This chapter mentioned about a summary that has to be done by the built
project. The information includes in this chapter includes a summary of project, data
summary and observation of the efficiency of the project and suggestion of the project
approach to the next research.
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CHAPTER 2

LITERATURE REVIEW

Literature review refers on interview, book, and the internet to get some
information about this project to give a clearance perspective in developing for this
project. This chapter will be discussed about overview of the manual system, study of
the development tools and database management system. Its ultimate goal is to bring
the reader up to date with current literature on a topic and forms the basis for another
goal, such as the justification for future research.

2.1 Introduction

In Computer Science,information system is all about information technology

and mediates the two opposing worlds of human activitiy ( Steve Elky, 2006 ). Current
system of the asset management system also has the system that can handle the
process management as a computerized. But, there are few problem during using the
system and that cause they used manually system. So , this literature review has been
covered about the process of manual system as a result when the current system cannot
use.
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This literature review is for the purpose of getting some guidelines to

implement the proposed project. Hence, in this section, a study has been done on
certain related issues. First, an understanding on procurement process and the
importance of asset management in general and in practice in the public sectors
including Statutory bodies and ePerolehan application. Next, the completion and
accuracy of the records which are commonly commented by the National Audit when
auditing is done on the public sectors. The study further is continued by studying on
various asset management systems. Strengths and weaknessess on the asset
management systems under study are also identified. Figure 2.1 below ilustrates the
Approach of literature review in order to gain the knowledge of the study area.

2.2 Understanding about Asset and Asset Management

It has been the aspiration of the government to continue improving efficiency

and effectiveness in the management of an asset in the public sectors. In moving
towards this, several steps have been introduced in the public sector asset management
system which is in line with the development of technology. The focuses are given to
the maintaining and maintenance aspect to ensure that government assets are well
maintained and as such their usage and life span can be optimized. In the Seventh Year
Plan ( 1996 - 2000 ), the government has allocated RM 250 million to upgrade and
enhance the management of government assets in public sector, including the
Federation of Statutory Body.

In the year 1999, efforts have been taken to integrate the asset-management
system that has been developed separately and stand alone by various public agencies.
Trial run for the implementation of the asset and store management system based on the
regionalization, and operational store concepts are being carried out at four pioneer
agencies. The agencies involved are the Defense Ministry, the Education Ministry, the
Agricultural Ministry, and the Malaysian Royal Police. Through this approach, it is
hope that the government asset and store management image could be improved from
an outdated and inefficient system to a more sophisticated, economic and effective
system in line with the effort to implement the electronic government (e-government).
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The development of e-Procurement and Planning System & Electronic

Budgetary Control ( e-SPKB ) are among the steps taken towards the realization of
electronic government management.

2.2.1 Asset

Pekeliling Perbendaharaan ( PP ) Bill 2 Year 1991 described in details about

asset , right from registration to disposal.The circular is a core circular for recoding the
basic capital asset , inventory and office supplies information. Apart from that circular
is give the defination of asset and explain all the forms used to record all assets. Need to
record the basic information of capital asset, inventory and office supplies on a
comprehensive basic which include information such as types, particulars, cost,
placement, disposal , signature of officer responsible, inspection date, etc ( preparation
of asset record also depends on the availability and channeling of the basic documents )

Type of asset is divided into five :

a. Capital Asset : asset value equal to RM500.00 or more at procurement point.

b. Fix Asset : Building or Land

c. Inventory : value less than RM500 each at time of procurement.

d. Office Supplies : consumables of low value and not economic to be traced.

e. Store Items : not yet used items and need to be stored for operational use ,
maintenance etc.
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Figure 2.2: Five Type of Asset ( Ministry of Finance, Financial Management

Course )

2.2.2 Asset Management

The figure 2.3 below illustrates the boundary of asset management as defined
the circular

Figure 2.3:Asset Management( Ministry of Finance, Fiance Management Course )

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2.2.3 Asset Management Flow

The Figure 2.4 below illustrates the flow of the asset management process as
defined the circular.

Figure 2.4 : The Asset Management Process Flow ( Ministry of Finance )

2.3 Review Inventory asset management

The Multimedia Super Corridor ( MSC ) is a world first , world-class act to help
companies of the world test the limits of technology and prepare themselves for the future
and attributes. To spearhead the development of the MSC and give shape to its
environment, seven primary areas for multimedia applications have been identified. The
seven flagship application are Electronic Government,Multipurpose Card, Smart Schools,
Telehealth, R&D Clusters, E-Business and Technopreneur Development.

ePerolehan allows suppliers to present their products on the World Wide Web,receive,
manage and process purchase orders and receive payment from government agencies via
the Internet. The supplier's product catalogue is converted into the form of an electronic
catalogue or eCatalogue, which can be viewed from any desktop with a web browser. The
supplier is able to submit quotations, obtain tender document and submit tender bid
through ePerolehan. ePerolehan allows suppliers to register or renew their registration with
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the Ministry of Finance through the Internet. Suppliers are able to submit application,
check application status and pay registration fees through ePerolehan.

ePerolehan is offering a comprehensive procurement system through the process of

Quotation and Tender, which will be automating the entire system, starting from a formal
application from users workplace, proposal preparation, advertising, evaluation,invitation
to the suppliers, up to payment completion.

i. Quotation :

a. Quotation process is for any purchase with a total value of RM100,000 but
less than RM200,000.

b. Through the quotation process, invitation is sent out to the identified

suppliers which enables prompt response from the suppliers

ii. Tender :

a. Tender is for procurement with the value of RM200,000 or more

b. The suggested system will simplify the procurement process, as online

transaction will be quickly and securely implemented.

c. It multiplies efficiency and noticeably reduces turnaround time and related

costs.

Some of the functions and benefits of the quotation and tender process through ePerolehan:

a. Status Monitoring: This system will monitor the status of Purchase Order that
has been sent out.

b. Consolidated Proposals: Proposals that have been received will be consolidated

automatically for analysis. The Technical and Financial Proposals will be
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separated automatically and directed to the respective committees for decision

making.

c. Document Security: Proposals that have been accepted from the suppliers will
be kept in a secure document server and may only be seen on the date of the
opening of Tender.

d. Automatic Comparison Schedule: All proposals will be accumulated and a

comparison schedule will be generated automatically based on the key
comparison fields. This will save time and assist the Technical and Financial
committees to carry out rating / ranking upon the accepted proposals.

e. Report: Different reports will be prepared to analyze the patterns of purchases

and expenses.

With the unique qualities available in the ePerolehan system, it will simplify the
procurement process of the Quotation and Tender. The procurement process will be better
organized and more proficient, as the system aids the Approver, the Committee and the
Committee Chairperson in the process of evaluation and decision making, as well as
advancing the suggested decision promptly.

2.4 Motivation to Develop System

Accountant General comments has raised weaknesses for the year 1999 Records on
the management of asset and store were not maintained accordingly and the officer-in-
charge did not carry out physical inspection from time to time. Procurement of store goods
was not done according to requirement where as the disposal action was not carried out
according to the procedure.

Accountant General comments has raised weaknesses for the year 2001 among others
are;

a. Capital Capital Asset Registry and Inventory Registry was not updated
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b. 479 units of capital asset purchased for the period of 1999 to 2000 was not
recorded in the registry; ( In 8 State Departments / Institutes)

c. There is no proof that physical inspection was carried out on capital asset

d. Stock verification was not carried out ( 3 departments)

e. Capital Assets were not identified as Hak Milik Kerajaan ( 6 State

Departments / Centers)

f. 20 units of laboratory equipment / office equipment valued at RM428,729

has not been used reasons: basic facilities has not been installed / not
enough staff)

g. Registry of Capital Asset do not follow the capital asset which were
transferred permanently to districts ( 3 State Departments)

h. Capital Assets which were broken-down have not been certified for disposal

2.5 Review Sample of the Asset Management System

The following are three screen snapshots from internet .Some sample of screen design
and information capture in the asset management system or application.

2.5.1 Asset Management System ( AssetWin)

Some of the sample screens of Asset Management System are used by various
US government offices such as Defense Logistics Information service, Honolulu Police
Department, Illinois State Treasurer, Lake County Illinois and Iowa Army National
Guard. Managing IT assets is getting more challenging these days because of the
different mobile applications and numerous locations in which the IT assets are
relocated to. Bar-coding plays an important role in managing these assets.
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Figure 2.5 : Master Catalog - Edit

Figure 2.6 : Location Code Data Add

2.5.2 MBJB Asset Management

This MBJB Asset Management System by Majlis Bandaraya Johor Bahru .

This system show that user be able to manage the asset item record by online which
that they did using manual way such as form record . The technology that uses is
based on Web based Application.
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There are several advantages in this system. For example the user did not have
much time review all the asset manualy. Moreover, it will not waste time when they
want to pay it at anytime they want. Then, this system also has its own disadvantages.
One of that is this system only can be used for the user target that do the asset
management systemMBJB only. Moreover, the user did not know the concept of
MBJB asset management system when the system is crowded with the not related
information provided.

The several One of the MBJB package available.The general section allows
for setting default values for more common data entry items such as register new asset,
division, group, location, building, aisle, bay, rack, and units of measure. When a new
asset is entered the defaults will apply unless they are overwritten with the other data.

Figure 2.7 : MBJB asset management system