Order fulfilment software application
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Kind of development: New program from scratch
Description of requirements/functionality: Hi. We require a system to manage goods coming in to our warehouse from our wholesaler and then packing them ready for our customers to collect them or for us to delivery them to our customers - depending on the choice made at the time or order.
Through our online store, local customers order goods from a range of ambient, chilled and frozen food and household products.
At the end of each day we collate all the orders that have been received that day from individual customers (so let's say we have 30 customer orders to process) and we then place an order with our wholesaler's warehouse for all the goods that we need to fulfil these orders.
The individual orders will consist of a broad range of items, for example one customer might order 1 bottle of shampoo, 2 jars of jam, 1 bar of chocolate, 1 box of cereal, 5 packets of crisps and so on. Potentially we could have 100s of items delivered from the wholesaler that we then need to sort and pack for our customers to then collect from us or we deliver them to the customer.
When our items arrive from the wholesaler we envisage a system that would enable us to use a barcode scanner/s to scan each item as it is unpacked. We would then want our computer screen to show us which customer has ordered this item. We then pack the item into the customer's box. We continue this process until all the items have been unpacked, scanned and then repacked into customer boxes. We then place the customer boxes on our warehouse shelves (for ambient) or in our freezer (for frozen goods) or in our chiller (for chilled items). Customer then collects their order or we deliver accordingly. We are only storing customer's packed orders for 24 hours at the most.
We can export our customer orders from the backend of our website into a wide range of formats - CSV, TSV, XLS, XLSX, XML or to server, FTP/SFTP or Cloud Services. We are using Woocommerce and this is the plugin that allows us to export our orders: https://www.visser.com.au/solutions/woocommerce-export/
Ideally we would like to be able to use at least two barcode scanners simultaneously. We would also want the application to let us know as each customer order is now complete and ready to go on the shelf so that it can be put away.
Extra notes: We are a start up business and we have a tight budget but we anticipate that from this basic system we would definitely need it to be developed to handle other stock management features in the near future. For example we plan to hold stock for the physical retail side of our business within the next 6 months. Therefore anyone who works on this project would most certainly be asked to do more work in the foreseeable future.
If this project is of interest, please get in touch and let us know how your skills and experience relate to this and also a timescale you feel you would be able to complete the job. Please give us your very best price to start with.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Juliet L.
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Hello,
This is certainly something that myself and my company can provide.
Just out of interest, i haven't read what platform (windows, Linux, web etc) that you want and also if you would like it to link to your existing database, instead of export and import or is this developers choice.
I would like to get a few more details, before i put a bid in so can we discuss?
Thank you.
Mr Connor Greer.
Head Of I.T.
Complete Computing Company
I.T's Our Problem, Not Yours.Juliet L.08 Aug 2017Hi Connor
Thank you for your question. We would be using Windows based computers. I think at this stage we our main concern is getting good functionality at an affordable price. If linking to the database (backend of our WP website) would add considerable cost to the development of the software we are happy to manually export/import the data at this stage.
Juliet