A SMART WEB-BASED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT AND ACCESSIBLE PHARMACY OPERATIONS
Pharmacy inventory is extremely significant to en-sure that the medicine is readily available and expiry and mis-management of stocks have been minimized [1]. The traditional pharmacy system more or less relies on maintaining the records manually which tends to be short of stocks, expires and lacking coordination [2]. This paper presents a Web-Based Medicine Inventory Management System developed in MERN stack as a smart one [3]. The system will provide the real-time inventory monitoring [4], automated expiry and low stock alerts [5], the location of pharmacies using GPS with Leaflet [6] and simple multilingual chat-bot which will help the user [7]. The interaction between the administrators, the pharmacists and the customers will be safe through role-based access [8]. The proposed system is more efficient regarding its operations and reduces the human error and enhances the availability of medicines.
S, S. K., Sindhu, , S, S., Rahaman, S. A. & J, R. (2026). A Smart Web-Based Inventory Management System for Efficient and Accessible Pharmacy Operations. International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, 02(04). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i4.564
S, Shivardhini, et al.. "A Smart Web-Based Inventory Management System for Efficient and Accessible Pharmacy Operations." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology, vol. 02, no. 04, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i4.564.
S, Shivardhini, Sindhu,Siri S,Syed Rahaman, and Ranjith J. "A Smart Web-Based Inventory Management System for Efficient and Accessible Pharmacy Operations." International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology 02, no. 04 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsmt.v2i4.564.
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