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Table of Contents
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1 Problem Statement 3
2 Proposed Solution 3
3 Project Objectives 3
4 System Overview 3
5 Module Breakdown 4
6 Expected Outcomes 4
7 Conclusion 5
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Problem Statement:
Traditional retail systems often lack intelligent recommendations and dynamic cart handling for
customers. Additionally, manual inventory tracking can lead to stock errors, poor customer
experience, and low operational efficiency. Small-scale vendors, in particular, struggle to
manage their stock digitally while offering modern features like product search,
recommendations, and billing.
Proposed Solution:
We propose a C++-based console application that simulates an interactive customer interface
integrated with:
• An inventory management system,
• Product search by ID or name,
• A recommendation graph for related product suggestions,
• A cart module with bill generation at checkout.
This solution helps streamline inventory operations, enhance customer experience with
suggestions, and automate billing.
Project Objectives:
• To build a searchable inventory system.
• To implement a recommendation engine for related products.
• To enable customers to add items to a cart and generate a bill.
• To automate inventory updates upon purchase.
• To simulate a complete customer transaction cycle using data structures in C++.
System Overview:
The system is a console-based application developed in C++ using OOP and STL components
such as stacks, vectors, and potentially graphs. Customers can interact through a menu-based
interface to:
• Browse inventory,
• Search for products,
• Receive product recommendations,
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• Add items to a cart,
• Checkout and receive a formatted bill.
Module Breakdown:
1. Inventory Module
• Responsibilities: Maintain a list of products including ID, name, price, and quantity.
• Functionalities:
o Add/search/display products
o Search by ID or name
o Update stock after purchase
2. Recommendation Graph Module
• Responsibilities: Maintain a graph where nodes are products and edges represent
"frequently bought together" relationships.
• Functionalities:
o Show related product suggestions when a customer searches for an item
o Display recommendations dynamically from the graph
3. Cart Module
• Responsibilities: Temporarily store products a customer wants to purchase.
• Functionalities:
o Add items by ID and quantity
o Validate stock before adding
o Store cart in a stack
o Hold cart data for billing
4. Billing and Checkout Module
• Responsibilities: Calculate and display the bill based on cart contents.
• Functionalities:
o Print a formatted bill with price, quantity, and total
o Reduce inventory after checkout
o Show grand total
o Handle formatting using iomanip
Expected Outcomes:
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• A fully functional inventory system with item search and recommendations.
• A dynamic and user-friendly shopping cart experience.
• Accurate and clearly formatted billing system with grand total.
• Proper validation of product availability before checkout.
• Reduced chances of manual errors in stockkeeping.
Conclusion:
This project successfully demonstrates how C++ can be used to build an end-to-end inventory
and shopping system integrated with intelligent features like product recommendations and
automated billing. It not only applies core programming concepts such as classes, file handling,
and data structures but also shows how structured design can enhance the customer experience in
a digital shopping environment.
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