CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

Products are created by brand owners and handed to third parties (contract manufacturer, shipping company, distributor - ) for delivery to merchants for later sale to consumers. These products can range from commodity items (e.g., flour) to limited quantity "luxury" items (e.g., designer handbags) to one-of-a-kind items (e.g., original artwork). Counterfeit products are often created and sold as the "real thing." Counterfeits leverage the original brand but generally have less overhead due to some combination of lower quality, reduced marketing expenses, reduced support costs and/or reduced corporate expenses (ranging from lower labor costs to failure to pay tariffs).

The three main parties (brand owner, merchant and consumer) are affected differently by the distribution of counterfeits. Consumers either willingly purchase counterfeits at a lower cost or are tricked into buying a counterfeit thinking they are getting authentic merchandise. In the former case they are generally happy, at least initially. The latter case, in some instances, may have little effect, i.e., the consumer may have overpaid for an item. However, more damaging effects may be realized if the product malfunctions. These effects can range from lack of recourse (since the product is not covered by the warranty of the brand owner or manufacturer) to physical harm in the case of food, prescription drugs, mechanical equipment, etc. Merchants and third parties may unknowingly or willingly participate in the distribution of counterfeit products. Brand owners suffer both hard (decreased profit) and soft (brand erosion) losses from counterfeit products.

The financial implications and investment for the implementation of the system was major concern of the Pharma Industry specially for small and medium scale manufacturers in the country.

1.7 Definition of Terms

Database: A collection of logically related data to meet the information need of organization.

Web: Online platform for accessing of web pages/information.

DBMS: Database Management Software that enable the user to define, maintain Control the database.

Application Program; A computer program that interacts with the database.

MENU: This is a list of options presented on the screen with each option identified by short code followed by longer description of its purposes.

Drug: It is referred to as a medicine or chemical substances that are administered to Patients for curative measures.

Pharmacy: A placed in a hospital where medicine or chemical substances are kept, stored and prepared.

Flowchart: A diagram that shows connection between the different stages of process of the system.

Relation; A relation is a named table with columns and rows Attribute; An attributes is a named column of a relation Domain; A set of allowable values for one or more table

Database design: The process of creating a design that will support emprise mission statement and mission required database e system.

Software: These are program for computer which allows certain specific task to be accomplished e.g. word process etc.

Hardware: Computer equipment used to perform input processing and system output activates.

Management information system: collection of people, database, and devices produced to use in providing routine information to manager and decision makers of the organization.

ONLINE REGISTRATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY AND DRUG VERIFICATION SYSTEM

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