AUTOMATIC INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Presented By: Philip Evans & Nick White May 2 nd, 2014.

AUTOMATIC INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Presented By:Philip Evans & Nick White

May 2nd, 2014

AGENDA

• Lessons Learned

• The Team• How we came together

• The Project• The idea• The application• The challenges

• Conclusion

LESSONS LEARNED

• Start motivated, stay motivated

• Planning• Contingency planning• Allow for slack time• Milestones

• Accountability• Mutual respect• Peer reviews

• Communication…

LESSONS LEARNED

“If you don’t hear that you’re communicating too much, then you

aren’t communicating enough!”

-Ryan Conlon

THE TEAM

• The first day of class

• Functional roles• Documentation Team• Development Team

DOCUMENTATION TEAM

Philip Evans

Herbert Wilson

Xiaonan Liang

DEVELOPMENT TEAM

David Moore

Nick WhiteHongfei Ma Fahad Alajlan

THE IDEA

• Brainstorming• What do we build?

• Discussion• How do we build it?

• Expansion• How do we make it available?

THE PROJECT

The Documentation

• Invention Document

• Focus Group Report

• Business Plan

• Functional Design

• Technical Design

The Application

• Mobile Application

• Web Portal

Individual Items• 3 Personal Papers

• Peer Reviews

THE APPLICATION

• Small Business-focused• SBA.org

• Competition• Lettuce• CashierLive• Jump Stock

• Mobile App• Android

• Web Portal

FUNCTIONALITY

• UPC Scanner• Shows product details

• Automatic Reorder

• Contact Book• Suppliers

• Mobile-to-Web Synchronization

AUTOMATIC INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

• Demonstration

• gomrgrumpy.zapto.org

CONTACT BOOK

• Add/remove suppliers• Work & mobile

numbers• Company name• Vendor name• Notes about vendor

• Contact vendors directly

AUTOMATIC REORDER

• Reorder inventory automatically• Set par levels

• Replenish Formula

DATABASE DESIGN

THE CHALLENGES

• Lack of communication• Frequency• Quality• Responses

• Schedule flexibility• Other classes• Full-Time jobs

• Internal Issues• Peer Evaluations

CONCLUSION

• We did it!• Inventory management application created

• What we learned:• Motivation• Planning• Accountability• Communication

THANK YOU!

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?