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A. Project Title: Investigation into Sales Force Automation and Mobile Usability for the Development of Mobile Based Application

for Fonterra Brands.

B.Brief description of company background and structure.(i.e. description of the company for which the BIT system is for)

1.0 Company overview

Fonterra sells and distributes to a large retailer base in Sri Lanka within 109 territories via 79 consignment agent’s distribution

network serviced through 123 Sales Representatives. As stated by Abegunawardane (2010) on average, 1 Sales Representative will

call on 47 Customers /Retailers per day, achieving on average 40 productive calls.

25 years have passed by since Fonterra brands first made entry to the Sri Lankan market. This land mark achievement of completing

25 years in Sri Lanka as the leader in dairy. From 80 MT in 1983 to over 23000 MT in 2009, Anchor has grown to be an icon in the

market. From 2400 accounts serviced in 1984, today the distribution and geographical coverage Anchor is available over 75000

Outlets Island wide.

Fonterra Brands Lanka has a strong commitment to our country. They employ more than 600 workers in the factory and also dealing

with 3,000 local dairy farmers to help the farmers and development of the local dairy farming in Sri Lanka.

When Fonterra started as a joint venture between the Jones Overseas limited, a subsidiary of the maharaja organization and New

Zealand dairy board, at that time anchor share was only 5% where competitors enjoyed a commanding position of over 80% market

share. Currently in Fonterra Brands dominates the growing up milk category owning 54% of Sri Lankan market share.

Competitors include nespray, mailiban, highland, lakspary and milgro in the powdered milk industry.

The products of Fonterra brands include;

Anchor Ratthi Growing Up Milk (GUMP) Anlene Newdale Fresh Milk Curd

1.1 Vision Statement

No.1 in Nutritional Dairy

1.2 Mission Statement

Delight consumer through dairy products that are nutritious, innovative and taste great.

1.3 Behaviours

Fast, energetic, speed to market and innovative

Focused, consumer, customer and brand centred

Forward thinking, building a stronger business for the future

Abegunawardane, M. Evaluating the current business process of Fonterra brands. [Interview] Fonterra with B.I.Ali. 08th October 2010

2.0 Value Chain Analysis for Fonterra

2.1 Primary Activities

2.1.1 Inbound Logistics

The main input for the company can be identified as;

Receiving the raw materials (milk powder arrives in 25 kg bulk packets)

Handling local purchase of fresh milk ( milk from dairy farmers for the production of fresh milk)

Store the raw materials in the warehouse. (Biyagama), they use stock control system to manage the stock.

Handling receiving raw materials is an important activity for the company in order to produce their product to the market smoothly.

Therefore the company should pay much attention on these activities, because of that they have built a system to integrate with

suppliers to communicate their operations.

2.1.2 Operations

Fonterra brands operations include;

Converting fresh milk into milk powder with the use of new technology and using advance machines.

Quality assurance and testing of products.

Operation is the core part of the all processes of the company. Fonterra’s interest in providing attention on milk powder quality and

opening advance manufacturing units with latest technology shows the company is stable, and its long term benefits are secure.

2.1.3 Outbound logistics

Distribution of the final products to the consignment agents.

Distribution of the final products to retail shops.

Today Fonterra Brands are available in over 75,000 Outlets Island wide.

2.1.3 Sales and Marketing (the identification of customer needs and the generation of sales)

The key areas being analyzed in this project will be from this section because the project is mainly focused on sales. The sales channel

is handled using a push strategy. Marketing new products is also done at the point of when sales are conducted. The products are

promoted at this stage giving them clear guidelines on how beneficial products are and how they compare with similar products.

The organization has introduced their products to the customer through the following means;

Advertising campaigns

Promotions for end-users (Eg: Rathi Kiri Sarai Sarusarai 2008, Newdale Pressure Hunt 2009, Go while 2009 and Cleopatra

2010, these are the promotions from Fonterra for end-users.)

Promotion campaign for agents and sales representatives (Eg: Smile of victory 2009, Blue star2010)

Market research: Information systems would be able to analyze the market research of the company.

Because of the perfect strategy of sales and marketing Anchor dominates the growing up milk category with over 54% market share

and has became the leading product in the market today.

2.2 Secondary Activities

2.2.1 Firm Infrastructure Fonterra has many departments in there company such as, HRM, Sales, Operation, Finance and Marketing.

The organization uses software’s such as FINAC to support their daily transactions.

They have customized their operating system to protect the system from inside hackers.

Company uses dual firewall architecture to protect from outside hackers.

They use encryption decryption method for their data transferring.

The Company uses VPN to connect the head office which is in New Zealand.

2.2.2 HR Management

Fonterra believes that developing skills of the employees is a vital strength for the company. the following have been implemented in

terms of HR, within the organization;

Conduct training sessions for employees to develop their skills.

Competition among the field staff and the winners were offered Air tickets.

They have a separate database for employees to enter their records. Eg: Attendance, Performances and etc.

Finger print analysis has also been implemented to account for staff attendance.

2.2.3 Technology Development

For the first time in Sri Lanka, Fonterra introduced the FFS technology. FFS is a Form-Fill-Seal machine that will do bagging, filling,

sealing and encoding which are all completed within the same process. Furthermore, the powder plant implements machinery using

advanced technology which claims to create a critical hygienic area to protect produc6t quality. Fonterra invests in research and

development to introduce new products to Sri Lanka using the latest technology to mainly gain competitive advantage. Anlene UHT,

Anmum Lacta and Anmum Essential were all results of research carried out by the development teams.

The company has identified IT involvement to be operation critical. Therefore integration of systems and stepping into ERP

(Enterprise resource planning) solutions have been identified as additional support to increase the productivity of the company.

2.2.4 Procurement

Fonterra also uses procurement system to manage their works.

Gather information and feedbacks given by consumers, employees and consignment agents related to procurement activities For an effective production they will upgrade new machinery with new technology.

3.0 Proposed Value Chain Activities

The proposed value chain activities in order to achieve the above mentioned objectives

Inbound Logistics – It will be efficient and accurate for preparation and planning of costing.

Operations - Production will be efficient, therefore it will, help to increase the production. And also tracking the order is not

an issue anymore.

Outbound Logistics – retrieving information is not an issue anymore because the system will have an effective inventory

system.

Marketing and sales- This will improve widely the quality of the service provided.

3.1 Highlighted Value Additions

From the proposed system it will mainly improve Marketing and sales as shown above. It will cut down the costs such as paper,

storage and etc. Basically this system will improve the value chain activities and also improve the efficiency and accuracy of the sales

force.

C.Brief description of the BIT system objectives.(i.e. How is the BIT system going to add value? Efficiency, customer lock in, extension of business services?)

1.0 Current manual Process

The sales representatives send out e-mail orders to the head office when stocks are needed to be filled. The order is then approved and

the goods are delivered to the respective agent. The agent then supplies the items to the sales representatives to distribute and deliver

to the shops in a particular route of the city. The routes vary depending on popularity of product, development of city and many other

factors. Depending on the factors the representatives are to visit the routes once in 14 days, once in 10 days and once in 7 days. They

must each have a working time of 22 days per month. Each agent owns 2 delivery trucks which will be sent to each route with a sales

representative.

From there onwards the sales representative plays a huge role in the distribution and sales process. When the sales representative visits

a shop to conduct sales he must manually bill the products. There are 3 carbon copies in each bill-for the agent, sales representative

and the customer. At the end of the day the sales rep; finishes his duty and has to recheck the bills to correct the errors that might have

occurred.

A record must be maintained for all the shops that purchased the goods. To fulfil this purpose and to track loyalty of customers to

better improve CRM, a “master card” is used. With information of each shop visited within that route.

The sales reps; must maintain a daily call sheet which records the daily summary of the sales.

This call sheet is then sent to the head office via postal mail. It takes an estimated time of 3 days for the office to receive it. Once the

head office receives the sales summary for the particular route, it is then entered to their systems manually.

2.0 Key problems identified in current manual process

The sales reps; face a higher work load because they have to bill each shop , then check for errors in all the bills, make the sales

summary and fill in the master cards.

High amount of manual documents are being used. E.g. each bill contains 3 copies-for the agent, sales rep and the customer .

Therefore storage is a sizeable issue in this process due to the bills being produced and used.

The sales representative has to place the order via email for stock re-ordering. This process can be effectively reduced if the main

head office also has a concurrent mechanism to identify the stock levels under each agent.

On average manually a sales representative can only visit 7 shops per hour. This delay occurs due to the time waste in the billing

process.

In the traditional process, the manual work is more. The head office must manually enter each routes sales amount in to the

system. This can result in human errors and inefficient use of time.

Currently the summaries are being sent through postal mail. This can cause late decision making on behalf of the company. E.g.: If

a sales summary sheet is sent out on the 30th of this month, the company will receive it on the 3rd of the next month.

As stated by Liyanage(2010)The distribution management application was implemented in early 2008 to facilitate the consignment

agent’s activities. The secondary sales invoicing process at retailer end was not in scope for the implementation and continues to be a

manual process administered by the sales representatives using manual invoicing local support partner resulting in the following

issues.

As a result of the disconnect between the current system and manual sales invoicing process, the sales representatives cannot make

use of the system to provide them the required information at the point of sale and therefore perceive the system to be a non value

adding activity resulting in a lack of user initiative to ensure the system is updated on a timely and accurate manner.

The inevitable data entry errors caused by the volume of manual transactions generated by the 123 sales representatives which

exceeds approx 1.4 million sales transactions a month which need to be keyed in to system by the 94 agents computer operators.

Best practices are not consistently demonstrated / executed in the field.

Source: (Liyanage.C, 2010, pers.comm. 14th October)

Current system is installed at 79 remote agent locations. The data available at these locations are unique to the consignment agent’s.

The applications installed at the consignment agent’s locations are maintained by Fonterra appointed software / hardware service

providers. This model leads to following issues;

The basic architecture of the solution necessitates substantial manual intervention & validation to ensure software patches are

installed at all 79 locations which incur additional cost for software roll-out and maintenance.

3.0 Objectives

The objectives of this project are;

The proposed solution should increase the number of visits made by the sales representatives manually to 15 shops per hour.

This could increase the efficiency by 44% for each day, providing new products with more time to be promoted.

Storage issues could be drastically reduced due to the electronic synchronization and storing of bills.

Increase security of corporate data resulting in risk of data being accesses by unauthorized personnel will be minimized.

Avoid delays in receiving and sending data between sales representatives and administration of the main office. This could

increase 70-80% of the company’s efficiency.

Reduce wastage of additional costs causing the company to save time and other valuable assets. The proposed solution should

provide about 40% improvement in terms of wastage.

Improve service levels to the field force by minimizing application down time

Provide timely and accurate information for decision making for Sales and Marketing

D.Brief description of the investigation required in the project.(i.e. software packages, access to information/expertise, user involvement etc.)

1.0 Justification for the methods selected

According to the research based on various facts finding technique it is most suitable to apply the following design methods for this

primary investigation.

1.1 Interviews

To identify the critical factors and the current process, interviews will be held as a main fact finding method. The interview will

provide a basic understanding of internal affairs take place within the company and its employees. The summary of the interviews will

help in further chapters of the documentation.

The interviewer must plan in advance the type of questions before meeting the respective persons, and also have to make an

appointment choosing a suitable place and time which will be comfortable for the respondent. Most of the interviews carried out with

the top level managers and sales representatives of the company. This method helps gaps the areas of misunderstandings and helps to

discuss about future problems.

Among the people the interviews will be conducted include,

1. Sales Director Fonterra Brands- Mr. Metha Abegunawardane

2. Sales Area Manager - Mr.Chaminda Liyanege

3. Sales Representatives- Mr. Harsha Rajakaruna and Maithri Bandara

1.1 Questionnaires

Questionnaire can be use to obtain information about wide range of topics. This technique selected since it consists of series of

questions framed together in logical manner, and also this is a method very useful for attaining information from people in different

other areas. The questionnaire can be mailed or post to people by post therefore this is the cheapest source fact finding. The

questionnaire is given for 10 retail shops Island wide. (Colombo, Badulla, Bandarawela, Balangoda, Awissawela, Galle, Matara,

Kandy, Rathnapura, Kurunegala)

Therefore properly papered questionnaire handover to above mention retail shop owners to find out the current problems they are

facing and what kind of solution that they would require. The feedback of the questionnaire will be used for design and development

of the system.

6.3.3 Document Review

Document review helps to identify how the current system is supposed to work. It will help to identify the exact degree of the problem

domain. Document reviewing can be spilt in to two categories; internal and external.

Internal

Reports from the current system Procedure manuals Forms used within the company Annual reports Organizational charts

External

The competitors systems Packaged software

Even though the documents are difficult to obtain due to confidential reasons company has provided them in order to complete the

research. Therefore a review would be done on the physical documents that are use by the company. The observation technique was

not selected because the processes are mainly distributing goods throughout the country, therefore it can be impractical with the time

constrains of the project.

The drawbacks of observation are,

People may knowingly or unknowingly perform differently when being observed

May miss observing tasks involving different levels of difficulty or volume normally experienced during that time period

Some tasks may not always be performed in the manner in which they are observed

Liyanege, C. Distribution management application of Fonterra brands. [Interview] Fonterra with B.I.Ali. 14th October 2010

Rajakaruna, H. Current business process of Fonterra brands. [Interview] Fonterra with B.I.Ali. 14th October 2010

Abegunawardane, M. Evaluating the current Distribution Management System of Fonterra brands. [Interview] Fonterra with B.I.Ali. 08th

October 2010

Bandara, M. Current business process of Fonterra brands. [Interview] Fonterra with B.I.Ali. 14th October 2010

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2.0 Methodology justification

After the analysis of the spiral model, RUP model and Scrum methodology, development will be most suitable using the Rational

Unified Process (RUP). When critically analyzing the above capabilities, given below are the conclusions expected;

SFA (Sales Force Automation) is a project involving a number of technical and software risks. The development methodology

must be able to manage this.

As the sales representatives will be using the hand held devices for their billing and record keeping facilities the reliability of

the instrument is a critical factor.

A methodology must be used and tested before being implemented for such a vast extent of detail and data.

For the developer to be sophisticated in that method is in fact a threat. To implement the project it will require high profiled

software developers. RUP avoids these aspects, providing independence to a certain extent.

Mainly, when Appling a known theory to a company’s core business function will require the customers trust. This can be

achieved by progress visibilities in RUP

Thus, in conclusion RUP has been selected as the most suitable methodology for this project.

3.0 Hardware and Software Requirements

Minimum requirements for a handheld device are:

Display- 2.6“ TFT, 240 x 320 resolution

WWAN: HSPA, EDGE/GPRS/GSM, UMTS 900/1900/2100, 850/900/1800/1900.

Bluetooth: Bluetooth Class II, v1.2

CPU: 200 MHz and Above

Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Memory-64MB SDRAM 128MB ROM

Standby Time: 150 Hours

Talk Time: 4-5 Hours

Barcode Scanner-4 mil integrated barcode scanner

Resolution: 2 mega pixel and above

4.0 Justifications of Selected Programming Language

Visual studio supports the following features;

Languages: C, C++, C#, VB.Net, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, ASP.net, XML, XAML, LINQ

Operating System platform: Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000, Windows

XP or Windows 7 or later

Simple and Easy Source Code Editor

GUI and RAD Tools include Win Forms, ASP Forms Designer, XAML visual designer, Database Schema Manager.

Testing/ Maintenance tools have slightly improved

Net beans support the following features;

Languages: C, C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, JavaFX, UML, HTML/CSS

Operating System platform: Can be install in Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OSX

Simple and Easy Source Code Editor

GUI and RAD Tools NetBeans Matisse, JSF Components, Database Application, Beans Binding , UML Design Tools,

Mobile Designer

Testing/ Maintenance CVS is integrated

Considering the above comparison between Visual Studio and NetBeans, Visual Studio was finalized for the project development that

includes ASP.NET. ASP.Net has been proposed as the main development tools due to mobile app development, since Visual Studio

has mobile development capabilities for PDA devices it is suites for this development.

5.0 Justifications of Selected DBMS

According to various comparisons done on the pros and cons of MS Access and SQL Server, SQL Express was selected for the

proposed system. The reasons for the selection have been listed below;

SQL Server is integrated with Windows NT security, but Access is not.

Access databases cannot be restored to the point of failure, when SQL Server databases can.

Administering Access databases are more expensive than administering SQL Server databases.

Therefore SQL Server 2005 was selected as the development tool and database system.

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E.Brief description of the research issues critical to the project and how you are going to find out about them.(e.g. literature and other sources of information etc.)

1.0 Research areas and Justifications

The main research areas that this project will be focusing on will be Sales force automation, personal digital assistants and mobile

usability. Sale force automation will be researched on because it is evident that an automation process is required to better

communicate with themselves and with customers to improve the efficiency of the current ordering and distributing process. The

mobile usability and PDA areas of research will help identify a more efficient approach and will go hand-in-hand will the SFA

research being conducted.

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F.Brief description of the business tools used and the functionality of the system being implemented.(i.e. which business tools will be used for analyzing the BIT system and why. Also what functions are you implementing in the prototype and what functions are you leaving out.)

1.0 Business tools

Business tools help identify organization strategies and analyze important factors in the external and internal environments of the

company. The main tools that will help the requirements stage of this project are shown below;

1. Porters five force model will be used to identify the external environments and to better understand the competitors tit he

organization

2. PEST analysis will help to identify and understand the potential opportunities and threat from the macro environment of the

business.

3. SWOT analysis will help identify the weakness and threats to have a clearer picture of the requirements of the company.

4. A Stakeholder analysis is important to apply to an organization of this nature, due to its tall structure and diversity of power

within different management personals. Opinions of the most powerful stakeholders can help shape the project and improve

quality of the resulting output.

5. Value chain model will help understand the current process for the primary research. the project will mainly focus on the sales

and marketing aspects of the primary activities in the value chain.

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2.0 Requirement specification

2.1 Functional requirements

Functional requirements are the basic functionalities of the system.

The Sales Representatives should be able to enter the data (sales) into the PDA device.

The Sales Representatives should be able to sync the data to the main server located in the head office.

The PDA should be able to provide customer order details to the Sales Representatives

the Sales Representative should be able to enter and update call sheet details in to the PDA

the Management should be able to view summary reports and sheet reports on the system

The Management should be able to view sales information at any given time

2.2 Non-functional requirements

Graphical interface of the system should be user friendly and attracting

The security aspect of data exchange must be confidential and high.

Chances of failure should be minimized to ensure stability of system.

Quick response for the requests

Able to store large amount of records

3.0 Commercial version requirements

3.1 Functional requirements

Inventory management should be available

Scheduling of distribution for the sales representative

Demand forecasting should be available through obtaining data and allowing management to use them.

3.2 Non-functional requirements

Risk management plan for the system should be implemented

User manual to understand the system should be available

database backups should be automatic

G.What are the tasks you are intending to carry out and how are you going to ensure that your system and process re-engineering is complete and accurate?

Work breakdown structure

1.0 Inception (6 Weeks)

1.1 Introduction

1.1.1 Project Overview (3 days)

1.1.2 Company Overview (2 days)

1.1.3 Company Structure (2 days)

1.1.4 Company Hierarchy (1 day)

1.2 Problem Statement (7 days)

1.2.1 Problem Overview (4 days)

1.2.2 Project Scope (3 days)

1.2.2.1 Constraints (1 day)

1.2.2.2 Limitation (1 day)

1.3 Project Plan (5 days)

1.3.1 Resource Allocation (3 days)

1.3.1.1 Hardware resources (1 day)

1.3.1.2 Software resources (1 day)

1.4 Requirement analysis (2 Weeks)

1.4.1 Primary Research (14 days)

1.4.1.1 Conducting Interviews (6 days)

1.4.1.2 Carrying out Questionnaires (10 days)

1.4.1.3 Conducting Observations (4 days)

1.4.1.4 Document Review (2 days)

1.4.1.5 Justification for the methods selected (3 days)

1.4.1.6 Identifying the proposed system requirements (4 days)

1.5 Submission of the Project Specification Form (PPF)

1.6 Approval of the Project Specification Form

2.0 Elaboration Phase (5 Weeks )

2.1 Conducting the Secondary Research.( 3 Weeks )

2.1.1 Researching about Sales Force Automation (14 days)

2.1.2 Researching about Personal digital assistants (7 days)

2.1.3 Researching about Mobile usability (7 days)

2.2 Business Analysis (1 week)

2.2.1.1 PESTEL Analysis (4 days)

2.2.1.2 SWOT Analysis (3 days)

2.2.1.3 Value Chain Analysis (2 days)

2.2.1.4 Porters Five Force Analysis (2 days)

2.2.1.5 Stakeholder Analysis (3 days)

2.3 Technology Research (1 week)

2.3.1.1 Selecting the Development tools selection (2 days)

2.3.1.2 Selecting the Development language(2 days)

2.3.1.3 Selecting the Development methodology(2 days)

2.3.1.4 Selecting the suitable Database selection(2 days)

2.3.1.5 Identifying hardware and software requirements(2 days)

2.4 Proposed System (2 weeks)

2.4.1 Objectives (7 days)

2.4.2 Requirements specification (7 days)

2.4.2.1 Functional requirements

2.4.2.2 Non-functional requirements

2.5 Midpoint Submission

2.6 Design ( 1 Week)

2.6.1 UML Diagrams (2 days)

2.6.1.1 Use Case Diagrams

2.6.1.2 Activity Diagrams

2.6.1.3 Sequence Diagrams

2.6.1.4 Class Diagrams

2.6.1.5 Screen Interface Designs

3.0 Construction (10 weeks)

3.1 First Iteration (6 Weeks)

3.1.1 Initial Coding

3.1.2 Initial Testing and compiling

3.1.3 Identifying errors

3.2 Second Iteration (2 Weeks)

3.2.1 Changing the Initial prototype

3.2.2 Coding and Compiling

3.2.3 Testing and identifying errors

3.3 Third Iteration (2 Weeks)

3.3.1 Refining the prototype a second iteration

3.3.2 Coding and Compiling

3.3.3 Testing

3.3.3.1 Unit test plan

3.3.3.2 System testing

3.3.3.3 User acceptance testing

3.4 Finalizing the construction ( 7 days )

4.0 Transition phase (3 Weeks )

4.1 Final Documentation preparation (20 days)

4.2 Finalizing the final documentation (2 days)

4.3 Final documentation submission

4.4 Final Submission

4.5 Final Presentation

System and model Testing

Testing

Unit testing – The system is tested in individual component. After unit testing all the components can be integrated to the final

system.

System Testing – Test whether the system is producing accurate result for each function.

User acceptance testing – Verify the level of user acceptance by checking whether the system meets the specified requirements

of the user of the system.

Testing Objectives

Identify the errors and correct them before the final product.

Ensure the user friendliness to obtain the result as expected by the user.

System meets the requirements of the users and produce accurate results according to the functions performed.

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