Mobile App for Stock Counting and Reporting (South Africa)
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Our client
A leading developer and supplier of
innovative telemetry solutions to global
companies operating in Africa.
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While playing golf
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• Our client Jade and our client’s client Stewart, owner of a multinational brewing and beverage company, are school buddies.
• One day while playing golf, Stewart discussed his challenges to efficiently manage warehouses where stock counting and stock checking were largely executed manually using pen, paper and MS excel.
• So Jade gave Stewart the idea to get a mobile app developed for counting pallets and cases in the bin with a basic interface with limited functionality.
Bin, Pallets and Cases
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Cases
PalletBins
The Process
Counters count pallets and cases manually
After counting, enters data in excel and syncs it with the server for validation
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The supervisor validates the
count
Mostly the count is inaccurate
The counter is directed to recount the pallets and cases
The process
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Problems with the manual counting process
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• Significant time loss
• Inaccurate data and rework• Inventory count errors
• Poor visibility of the inventory
• Failure to categorize completed and pending pallet count jobs
• Too much data not enough information
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We were approached to deliver an android application that would help to automate the counting process in the warehouse.
The end client already had web forms to collect the count information of the stock.
Now they wanted it on mobile.
We were approached
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We delivered – Mobile App within 5 Weeks
Mobile app for Android developed on Xamarin. (The code can be scaled
for iOS in the future with minor tweaks)
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Key features of the mobile app• The app works online and offline
• Collected data can be synched offline
• If there is any discrepancy in the count, the app notifies which pallet needs to be recounted
• The job is marked in red if there is any variance in the count
• Different colours notify different stages of the process
• The device may be assigned multiple warehouses, but which warehouse the collector has to go is assigned in the mobile app
• Once the collector starts his job, the status of the job changes to in-progress
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Business benefits
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• Operational efficiency has increased
• Not many people involved in the counting process
• Operational cost has been minimized
• Jobs can be done quickly through the mobile app itself
• More efficient counting, resulting in significant savings
• Reduced labour cost dramatically as less counters required
• Counting accuracy has improved
• Labour work has been reduced and now they operate efficiently paperless
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Future opportunities
• Client may market this app as a solution after rigorous market testing
• Can be pitched to breweries
• RFID based stock counting enhancement can be done
• Beacon based stock counting enhancement can be done
• White labelling may come into the picture
• The application can grow in the future as there is further scope of automation
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To summarize, we
• Provided end-to-end mobile application development services
• Helped to significantly reduce the development cost
• Ensured timely and quality deliverables consistently
• Managed skilled resources and ensured their sustainability
• Effectively managed cost, quality and timely deliverables
• Ensured maintenance and support throughout
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