Massmart Supply System UpgradeSINCE WALMART PURCHASED MASSMART IN 2010, MASSMART HAS STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN WALMART’S SUPPLY CHAIN STANDARDS. IN AN EFFORT TO BRING MASSMART UP TO STANDARDS, MASSMART INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT WILL WORK WITH WALMART TO UPGRADE TO RFID TRACKING, SCANNING SKUS, AND AUTOMATED REORDERS NOTE: THIS IS A CLASS ASSIGNMENT BASED ON SOME FACTS.

Team Members

Charles Baynes: Supply Chain Manager

Stacey Fitch: Database Architect

Stephen Pallone: Field Engineer/Contract Manager

Tobey Strauch: Systems Analyst

Raymond Schafer: Project Manager (AKA Instructor Schafer)

Objective:

Update Massmart’s current systems to mimic Walmart’s systems Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology

Oracle Business Intelligence

CONSUMPTION DRIVEN PLANNING

Allow distribution centers (DCS’s) to update with store supplies daily instead of weekly, and interact with the suppliers

Supply source will track their own supplies on the shelf

Break into Regions with centralized distribution centers that have data centers for that regions data exchange

Database Platform: Oracle Exadata Database

Needed Technology: Smart Flash Cache

Smart Scan

InfiniBand

Scale

Out Storage

I/O Resource Management

ExaLogic-Sparc

SuperCluster

Chosen because its pre-configured and easily executed. Also Oracle and Cisco have international presence

African Region Breakdown

Region Definition:

Region 1: Nambibia, Lesotho, SwazilandRegion 2: Mauritius, Malawi, MocambiqueRegion 3: Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, BotswanaRegion 4: Nigeria and Ghana

Network Configuration

Work with CISCO to set up networking between regions, stores, and suppliers, as well as communications back to the US.

In Store Network Configuration

Use inputs from the scanners for inventory and cash register scanners to know what is on the shelf and what has exited the store.

Supplier Interface

Update the databases nightly so that suppliers can know changes in a day to their shelf supplies.

This will illuminate when orders are needed to be filled quicker.

Also, it will show seasonal trends.

Project Plan

Network implementation and setting up Oracle servers will be done in a six month time frame from July until January 2015. Risk factors

Local integration in Africa

Dependencies on Oracle and Cisco for their local interactions in the project

Language barriers

Social barriers

Schedule

Reasoning for hiring Oracle and Cisco locally and involving local Massmart representatives.

Project Plan

Task Name Start Date End Date DurationSystems Analysis 05/21/14 06/02/14 9

Contractor Retention 05/21/14 05/28/14 6Software Purchase 05/26/14 05/26/14 1

Master Schedule for Cutovers Including Cutover Dates

05/26/14 12/31/14 158

Milestone:Preliminary work should be locked in.

06/02/14 07/11/14 30

Network Configuration 06/02/14 06/16/14 11Milestone: Network should be in

place.09/26/14 11/06/14 30

UPC Database Development 06/03/14 11/21/14 124Milestone: Database needs to be

ready for testing.09/26/14 11/06/14 30

Change over Hardware in stores 08/25/14 12/01/14 71Milestone: Network and Hardware

should be in place local and interconnect.

09/26/14 11/06/14 30

Testing 08/01/14 12/31/14 109Milestone: Testing Completed 09/26/14 11/06/14 30

Training 01/05/15 01/23/15 15Milestone: Training Completed 01/05/15 02/13/15 30

Implementation 01/05/15 02/20/15 35Plan Phase 2 01/12/15 03/13/15 45Plan Phase 3 04/25/15 06/04/15 30Plan Phase 4 05/18/15 06/26/15 30

Training

Team representatives will be on site during the project and during installations for the purpose of training Each region will be hiring an IT manager/engineer to govern the new

system and to maintain them.

Systems people will be needed at the store level and there must be open communications back to Walmart, Oracle, and Cisco

End User Training

Supply Chain Supervisors will be responsible for updating training for the end users

Reports will be tailored to the end customers needs

Organizational Change

The purpose of this system is to make everyone upstream in the supply chain aware of the movement of inventory Less order mistakes due to more accurate data

Accurate projections

Cross docking

Quicker response to customer needs

Culturally, this will be a change and is the reasoning for involving Massmart in the changes.

The overall goal is to decrease mistakes and be more profitable which will benefit Massmart and Walmart.

References:

Baldauf, Scott (2011), “Wal-Mart: In or Out of Africa?”, Christian Science Monitor, retrieved from http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2011/0525/Wal-Mart-In-or-out-of-Africa Laudon, K., & Laudon, J. (2014). Management information systems: Managing the digital firm. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.Morakhia, Sagar (2013), “Wal-Mart Supply Chain Management”, Zydus Cadila, retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/sagarc1990/walmart-supply-chain-managementOracle In Memory, Consumption Driven Planning White Paper, “Overview and Business

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