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Question: Prepare a schedule of design reviews for the PickPOCIT project and then select one of those reviews and prepare a detailed agenda for the review. Be sure to include details about how you will handle the record keeping for action items.
CONTRACT ANNOUNCEMENT
Inventory Specialists Inc. (ISI) has recently been awarded a $9M contract by OK.COM to design, produce, and demonstrate a prototype automated inventory picker and mailer for their company. OK.COM is attempting to rival Amazon in its ability to quickly get orders in the hands of their customers as quickly as possible.
The system architecture is based on inventory management hardware and software (IMS) developed by ISI and must take inputs from the Automated Order Taking (AOT) software developed for OK.COM by SAP Software and Solutions. AOT can take orders from both customers on-line as well as from company customer service personnel. If the merchandise is in stock, AOT then generates an order output that the PickPOCIT system must be able to process. PickPOCIT will then automatically locate the product in the warehouse; select the product off the warehouse shelve; box it if necessary, and, depending on the customer selected shipping method (2-day or standard delivery), generate and paste a UPS or USPS mailing label on the box before delivering it to the shipping department. If the shipment is less than 5 lbs, and it is being delivered to an address within 15 miles of the shipping facility, the package will be prepared for delivery to the customer using a drone that ISI will purchase from Drone Delivery Systems, Inc. If the package is to be delivered by the drone, it must be delivered within 30 minutes of the customer’s order. OK.COM will provide the AOT software as “customer furnished equipment (CFE) at no cost to ISI.
ISI proposed the PickPOCIT System concept based on the adaptation of its well-proven and low cost IMS hardware and software, and a well-planned OK.COM system integration and performance demonstration program. Previous versions of IMS have been able to:
Take in and process 200 orders a minute
Utilizing “First-In/First-Out” logic, process, locate, package, and prepare for Shipping an order within three minutes
Mean Time Between Repairs – 2500 hours of continuous operation
Software will run on existing OK.COM computer hardware
These performance specifications are not to be compromised as a result of this application for the PickPOCIT Project.
In short, ISI proposed a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), Best Commercial Practices, Event Driven approach to the development, production, and demonstration of the prototype system. OK.COM stipulated in their Request for Proposal (RFP) that industry specifications and standards be used and that the prototype system must accept input form the AOT software provided as CFE from OK.COM. ISI is formally certified ISO9000 compliant. ISI proposed a project of twelve (12) months duration and was the lowest price bid. The contract is fixed price ($9M) with a potential additional award fee of 3%, split 60/40 on schedule and performance.
STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
OK.COM seeks to acquire, install, and test an automated stock picker and mailer capability to get orders to their customers via a drone, UPS, or USPS depending on the size of the package and/or the
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delivery time the customer selects. The system must be installed, tested, and operational by next spring in its Baltimore, Maryland warehouse in time for an operational test already coordinated and scheduled for month 11 providing validation two months in advance of “Black Friday” 2017. . If this prototype capability works, OK.COM will purchase 50 PickPOCIT systems for each warehouse, of which there are 50 warehouses around the United States and Canada, in time for the “Black Friday” sales rush in 2018.
PROJECT PLAN SUMMARY
ISI will develop, install, train operators and administrators, and support the demonstration test of the PickPOCIT system.
The PickPOCIT project will consist of:
1. Software refinement in order to implement the SAP AOT software.
2. PickPOCIT installation and test at the OK.COM warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland.
3. System Administrator Training.
4. Providing technical and training support during of an operational test during month 11.
Major Milestone Events for the PickPOCIT project are:
Event Date
Contract Award August 31, 2016
Project Baseline 1 month after award
SEMP (System Engineering Master Plan) 2 months after award
TEMP (Test & Evaluation Master Plan) 3 months after award
PDR (Preliminary Design Review) 4 months after award
CDR (Critical Design Review) 6 months after award
System Integration Tests 7 months after award
Full System Demonstration Tests 8 months after award
System Installation 9 months after award
Operator and System Administrator Training 10 months after award
Support Operational Test 11 months after award
Contract Test Report and all Final Documentation 12 months after award (31 Jul 2017)
Explanation / Answer
Design reviews for the PickPOCIT project
Design review of any project include following steps:
1, Existing Infrastructure Review: Inventory Specialists Inc. (ISI) has recently been awarded a $9M contract by OK.COM to design, produce, and demonstrate a prototype automated inventory picker and mailer for their company.
2. Determine capabilities: this project has the capabilities which has the system architecture based on inventory management which takes inputs from the Automated Order Taking(AOT). PickPocit will automatically locate the product in the warehouse depending upon the customer needs with two days standard delivery. This also has the special feature of drone delivery in which the product is delivered to the address withinn 30 minutes of the customer order.
3. Assess benefits: Reduction in the time taken to locate and deliver the product to the customer, Fully technology driven process hence reduce human efforts and reduce the chances of error.
4. Assess risk: Competitor like Amazon, flipkart etc they are coming up with new technology day by day hence to earn profits, they have to come up with new technology.
5. Cost analysis : Cost incurred should be minimised so as to increase the profits.
6. Develop Value score card: By measuring the performance of the whole process.
Design review helps in:
Requirements Review: is conducted to ensure that all of the appropriate requirements and constraints have been clearly and completely identified.
• System Design Review: In the case of large systems being developed, a system design review examines the allocation of requirements to individual configuration items..
• Preliminary Design Review: Design concepts are evaluated for feasibility, technical adequacy and general compliance with requirements, and the relative merits/weaknesses of different concepts are presented.
• Critical Design Review: is an intermediate design review that occurs after the detail design is complete and prior to the fabrication of prototypes or pre-production models.
• Test Readiness Review: that will be applied to prototypes or pre-production units to verify the design against the requirements. These plans are reviewed for reliability and completeness.
• Final Design Review: is conducted after prototypes or preproduction units have been through verification testing. Problems encountered during this testing and the respective solutions are examined.
• Production Readiness Review: A number of PRRs are held through the development of a product and are not usually tied to other design reviews.
• Ad Hoc Reviews: Problems may arise during the course of the project that may drastically change the direction of the design. In such situations, it may be appropriate to call a design review in order obtain multidisciplinary input before proceeding with critical decisions.
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