Mobile of point of sales (POS) application with cloud computing inventory management system for micro and small enterprises

Abstract

The advancements of computing technologies have resulted to cheaper mobile devices and access to various mobile applications in the market. These developments have also opened opportunities for micro and small enterprises to streamline their business processes without investing heavily on enterprise software licenses and hardware resources. This paper explores the convergence of a mobile point of sales (POS) application and a cloud computing inventory management system. However, one of the major problems in implementing a cloud computing system is the Internet speed in the Philippines. Latency issues can greatly affect the productivity of micro and small businesses since majority of them are engaged in wholesale and retail trade. This can be solved by synchronizing the data coming from the native mobile POS through batch processing with the data of the inventory management system on the cloud in situations where unavailability of, limited, or slow network connection makes it impossible to perform real- Time update of data. This paper will also discuss the architecture, data synchronization method, and the challenges and growth prospects of mobile and cloud computing.