Inventory System
The backstory
A while ago, the lab I work in was faced with the challenge to improve the way we track when people
come to borrow our chemicals.
The previous solution to this was simple but somewhat archaic: We had a paper sheet where borrowers
would sign out chemicals. This sheets were usually filled with hardly legible scribbles that covered
every last bit of space on the paper. Hence, the search for a better solution.
After playing around with a few other things and seeing the horrendous subscription prices for commercial inventory management systems, I decide to make this into an opportunity for learning web development and wrote our own "Chemical Borrowing System" in Python.
After playing around with a few other things and seeing the horrendous subscription prices for commercial inventory management systems, I decide to make this into an opportunity for learning web development and wrote our own "Chemical Borrowing System" in Python.
The Chemical Borrowing System allows users to borrow and return chemicals,
check where they are currently located, or check the status of all bottles from a specific owner.
Borrow a chemical
Find out where your chemicals have gone
List all your chemicals
This is the system we are now using to track when someone borrows our chemicals.
Goodbye pen and paper!
The website itself is not publicly accessible, but the source code is available on GitHub under MIT license.
The website itself is not publicly accessible, but the source code is available on GitHub under MIT license.
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Python
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Django
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SQLite
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