August Larsen Functional IT Consutant

Materials Support Department needs some changes to the Scanner App they use to perform inventory functions. This solution should resolve the following issues:

1.      Change the default quantity for inventory transfers

o  Current state: After location and part number are entered, the transaction quantity defaults to the entire quantity in the location.

o  Future State: Should be changed to a zero quantity or left blank so that it forces the operator to enter a quantity to continue with the transaction

o  Will save Approximately 3 seconds per transfer

§ Our current average is 38.89 seconds per WMS transfer

§ Expected to reduce average transfer labor time by 7.7%

2.      Change the way inventory cycle count adjustments are done.

o  Current state: there are 2 different buttons; one is pressed when inventory needs to be adjusted down, and the other when inventory needs to adjusted up.

o  Future state: We would like one button where the quantity in the location is entered and the addition/subtraction is done behind the scenes, along with the inventory transaction to adjust inventory up/down

o  Will save Approximately 15seconds per count

§ On average a single operator in hour can complete 64.17 counts (or 1.07 per count average)

§ Expected to reduce average count labor time by 23.24%

3.      Allow operator to go back to previous page in warehouse transfer menu

o  Current state: If user makes an error, there is no way to visit previous page, to correct error. User must re-start process. Verification is currently based on location

o  Future State: Implement a way to visit previous page, to correct any data entry errors so user does not need to re-start process. Verification needs to be based on Quantity

o  Time saving unknown, depends on user error rate.