Superstore Inventory Manage

ment System Analysis Project

Sheng Wang
Mengtao Ji

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Contents
Background
Sponsor
Business

Problem
System Capabilities
Process Diagram
Feasibility Assessment & System Req
uirements

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Background
History
- Owned by Loblaw
- 1986 first grocery in Atlantic Canada
- located at 26 Market Street, Antigonish

Business
- Food: bakery, dairy, deli, frozen food, meat, etc.
- Non-food: Clothing, gardening centre, merchandise, etc.

Size of Store
- 206 employees
- Loblaw 2008 operating income: $1046 million

Organization Structure & Current Information Syste

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Organizational Structure

Rusty Lambke

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Current Information System

IMS
SCM
Computer-based(Antigonish
Superstore)
SAP (Other Superstores)
Every department create purchase
orders
Warehouse in Montreal sends goods
once a

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week

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Business Problem
No independent purchase department
- Every departments create orders
- Warehouse in Montreal deals with orders once a
week

Low level computer-based system

- Different system from other Superstores
Not effective security system
- Missing goods

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New System Capabilities

High-level

connection between local retail

store (Antigonish Superstore) and wareho
use.
Integrate every products departments req
uisitions
Create an integrated purchasing order.
Everyday checking reduce missing cases.
Reduce the condition out of stock to make
the inventory available in real time.
Context Diagram
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Context Diagram

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Current Purchase Process Diagram

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Future Purchase Process Diagram

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Feasibilities Assessment
Technical Feasibility
data conversion
experienced employees & consultants
adaptation to actual environment

Cultural Feasibility
lack of computer competence
unemployment

Resource Feasibility
team skill level

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Technical Requirement
Requirement
number
Requirement
title
Requirement
text
Requirement
type

T1
Data Integration
Describes that data can be entered once, all users can share the
data
Technical

Requirement
details
and
constraints

Inventory Department enter everyday inventory data to the

system and create everyday inventory report, manager can see
the data.
Manager creates requisition and purchase department can see
the requisition.
Purchase department create purchase order and manager and
inventory department can see the purchase order date and goods
list.
Warehouse sends goods and inventory departments can see
packing list and delivery date.

Revision date 11/5/2010

and reversion Version 1.0
number
Criticality
Must
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Conclusion
We design the future IM system based on
the current system, and also change som
e process steps in order to make the oper
ation more efficient.

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Questions ?

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