Exploring Innovation Possibilities for Home Supply Chain Management System (HSCM)

ByMorag S., Abdul K. and Prithvi C.

Strategic Managementof Innovation and TechnologyDr. Shirley Shmerling

Typical Week

- Saturday – Run errands including groceries.

- Monday – Stop off to pick up graham crackers on way to drop kids off, only 15 minutes late to work

- Thursday – Pick up milk and diapers on lunch break

- Friday – Try and figure out why you feel so frazzled at the end of the week

Introducing HSCM

• Intelligent System that can maintain commodity data inventory, rules/policies and consumption trends with a user friendly web interface.

• Connected to the Home Wi-Fi network and can communicate with external world over internet and can do processing on data based on event triggers (e.g., home entry/exit) Can send e-mail and phone SMS

• Runs background scheduler based on user-created consumption trends. Can trigger event if rule parameter is close to threshold.

• It hooks into home entry-exit door and has attached receipt scanner to extract commodity data and quantity from receipts.

How it works

• Adults in family carry a electronic key chain that interfaces with HSCM

• When adult exits home after 6:00 PM on weekdays and between 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM on weekends, HSCM generates shopping list

• When adult returns home, prompts (with beep) to scan receipts

• If no qualifying trigger for “n” days, but threshold value reached based on commodity consumption, it will ring alarm and send e-mail to mobile phone.

2) User purchasing

Home inventory

User creating requirements list,

consumption trends, etc. HSCM system

Returning home

0) Typically 1-time or very seldom

1) Send shopping-list to user when required

User consumption

3) Scanning receipts

Replenishing stock

HSCM Process Flow Diagram

Receipt Scanner

• User is scanning store receipt on returning home

• The beep on returning home reminds adult to scan receipt

How to notify the users

Name Mobile EmailJim Dean 070-7434028 Jim.Dean@att.comMary Dean 070-7434029 Mary.Dean@att.com

Create shopping list and upload to HSCM data-base

Done? Produce Quantity Brand Frequency

a Oranges      

a Apples      

a Bananas      

a Lettuce      

a Tomatoes    

  Squash      

  Celery      

  Cucumber      

  Mushrooms      

         

Done? Dairy Quantity Brand Frequency

  Milk  1 gallon  Berkley Farms  1 per week

  Cheese      

  Eggs      

  Cottage cheese      

  Sour cream    

  Yogurt      

HSCM week- Saturday – print out suggested

shopping list which notes that you haven’t bought graham crackers for a while, you usually get two gallons of milk, and it’s been 4 weeks since you bought diapers, run errands including groceries

- Sunday – Life is good.- Monday – Life is good.- Tuesday – Life is good.- Wednesday – Life is better.- Thursday – I am loving it.- Friday – wonder why I feel so

relaxed- Saturday – Cant wait to get started