Inventory Management System

A simple C++ command-line application for managing product inventory with support for quality tiers, purchase/return workflows, and real-time updates. This project was developed for an introductory data structures course and demonstrates modular programming, use of STL containers, and practical fileless inventory handling.

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🧾 Project Overview

This system is built to handle inventory for various products, each identified by a unique SKU and stored with different quality tiers ("new", "used", and "poor"). It includes functionality for:

• Viewing all inventory items.
• Searching for items by name or SKU.
• Purchasing items while updating stock.
• Returning items and restocking.
• Displaying price and quantity for each quality tier.

Currently, the inventory is stored in memory and resets on each program run.

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💡 Features

1. View Inventory

• Displays all products with SKU, name, price, and available quantities by quality.

2. Search Inventory

• Case-insensitive search by SKU or product name.

3. Purchase Products

• Users specify name/SKU, quality (new/used/poor), and quantity.
• Inventory is updated in real-time if stock is sufficient.

4. Return Products

• Users can return items by specifying the quality and quantity.
• Stock is incremented accordingly.

5. Product Quality Tiers

• Each product has stock counts under:
  • new
  • used
  • poor

6. Structured Code

• Modular functions include:
  • displayInventory()
  • searchInventory()
  • purchaseProduct()
  • returnProduct()

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🛠 Code Files

🔹 Inventory Management Project Design.cpp

Main logic for the application.
Implements all the core features of inventory interaction including user input menus, product structure, and handling logic.

🔹 Project Files

• Inventory Management Project Design.sln
• Inventory Management Project Design.vcxproj
• Inventory Management Project Design.vcxproj.filters
• Inventory Management Project Design.vcxproj.user

These files are used to compile and run the project in Microsoft Visual Studio.

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🔍 Example Products in Inventory

SKU     Name       Quality    Quantity    Price
1001    Laptop     new        20          $999.99
                   used       5
                   poor       2
1002    Mouse      new        50          $19.99
                   ...