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Case Study: Warehouse Management System Vendor Selection

ScottMadden assisted a large southeastern electric utility develop user requirements for a warehouse management system (WMS) and create a formal request for information (RFI)/business case for initial vendor selection.

• uManagement desired to improve inventory planning and materials management across its fossil generation system to address the following issues:
• Order retrieval and processing was unorganized and time consuming
• Shipping documents were manually generated
• Inventory records did not always reflect current balances and locations
• Inventory was not easily visible across the system
• The accounting transaction audit trail was inadequate
• Transaction access and tracking security was unsatisfactory

• uDocumented WMS system functionality requirements
• Identified more than 200 potential candidates and selected the 20 top vendors from the list
• Used the RFI process results to facilitate final vendor selection and develop a short list of highly qualified candidates
• uCreated a quantitative and qualitative business case for WMS implementation

• uProvided business case support for planned WMS implementation
• uRecommended approach for request for proposal (RFP) development and WMS implementation