Provision of procurement data for condition management
Project duration: 4 months
Brief description
For a supplier assessment, the purchasing department needs to evaluate the purchasing data for order contracts for non-stock items. For every new order, order change, or cancellation, the current procurement data of the associated contract are reported from the inventory management to the module which collects, summarizes, and evaluates the supplier data from various sources.
Supplement
An interface for the procurement system must be established, which enriches the procurement data from the orders for non-stock items with order and customer data and forwards it. When an order is processed the procurement data is archived online. All the updated procurement data is transferred to the procurement system at regular intervals. In the framework of the Agilian software development (Scrum) a detailed analysis is performed on the basis of the required technical functions (features). By means of an as-is analysis, the features are broken down into packages, prioritized, and presented to Development in the form of stories. The functions implemented in the Java application are accepted with the developer on the basis of self-defined technical test cases. All the implemented functions are documented in the form of use case documents. Departmental processes are modeled in Agilian with the help of the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation).
Subject description
In the group, information about suppliers is gathered from various order channels, in order to check and evaluate it as regards the satisfaction of contractual assurances. The aim of this assessment is to collaborate only with trustworthy and reliable suppliers in future. The compression of the data also offers the possibility for the group to obtain better conditions from the suppliers. Due to the fact that for non-stock items, the goods are only requested from the supplier after the customer order has been received, by contrast with orders of goods in stock, there is no connection between the customer order and the supplier order at this point in time. Consequently, a special tracking mechanism has been developed for stock items, which is to be implemented in this project.