Ideas on best approach - Product Catalogue, Orders to appear in a UWL

I am looking for some guidance/ideas on how best to approach the following:
I have a request to create a product catalogue (only to be accessed internally), that will allow staff to order products.
Once they have selected the products and quantities that they want, they will submit the order, and the the order should appear as an item in the UWL for a user. This user will then fill the order, and ship the goods to the user that ordered them.
I'm not sure which technology I would be best to use here, so any suggestions on this would be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Richard

Has no-one done anything like this?
Has anyone done a product catalog?

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