Connecting a client to the third-party logistical systems
Project duration: 2 months
Brief description
A client's customer companies are connected to the group's third-party business logistics systems. This means that the cross-company accounting and third-party business logistics are served by the same stock, leading to transfer cost savings.
Supplement
The project is based on the earlier preliminary analysis (see project ID 2995). Only the functions that are relevant to the goods-in-stock process are implemented. Non-stock goods processing is excluded. The implementation enhances a process logic that was implemented previously in the existing Java application for another client. With an eye on the future, the affected components are made to support multiple clients. In the context of agile software development (scrum), there is a detailed analysis based on the requested technical functions (features). The required features are broken down into packages, prioritized and passed on to development in the form of stories. Self-defined functional test cases are used by the developer to accept the functions implemented in the Java application. Support is provided for analyzing errors in the context of the functional network test.
Subject description
The client's order system requests items from the inventory management system and secures the stocks it requires to satisfy its customer purchase orders by means of stock commitments. Some of the client's customer companies have contingents, i.e. stocks of inventory that are reserved exclusively for those companies. The contingents are taken into account in all availability checks or stock allocations. The inventory management does not manage any subsequent delivery items for the clients. Customers are supplied directly from the warehouse where the commitment is given; in other words, the transfer to the original warehouse for third-party business is omitted.