Integration of shipment processing in group logistics
Project duration: 1 year, 4 months
Brief description
Some foreign customer companies can currently only be supplied with small-volume items from a dedicated warehouse. In order to shorten delivery times and reduce costs for transfers, these customer companies are successively connected to the group warehouses so that deliveries can take place directly from those warehouses. The warehouse that was previously responsible for these customer companies is terminated.
Supplement
In the context of agile software development (scrum), there is a detailed analysis based on the requested technical functions (features). An as-is analysis is used to break the features down into packages, prioritize the features and pass them 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. In order to minimize risk in this very complex environment, all the changes are initially reversible. In other words, customer companies can be integrated or excluded from integration at the touch of a button. All the implemented functions are documented in the form of use case documents. Functional sequences are modeled in Agilian with the help of BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation).
Subject description
The integration into group logistics takes place step by step for the individual customer companies concerned. The corresponding warehouse access rules are set up for each customer company in order to access the group warehouses. Because there are no longer any transfers from the group warehouses, commitments can be made on unrestricted stock. Furthermore, the delivery promises communicated to end customers are also adjusted.