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Inventory Management System

Type Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)Standard Chen 1976 / Everest 1976 (crow's foot)Engine schematex-erdUpdated 6/24/2026
Inventory Management System
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The request

“Create an inventory management ERD with Category, Product, Warehouse, Inventory, Supplier, PurchaseOrder, and PO_Line tables, the shown keys and attributes, products in categories, inventory by warehouse and product, and purchase orders with suppliers and line items.”

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Using composite primary key for Inventory (warehouse_id, product_id) to ensure one record per product per warehouse.

02

Separating Product and Category to allow categorization.

When designing a system for retail, wholesale, or manufacturing inventory tracking with multiple locations.

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