Proposal
Business requirements
Tracking Raw Material and Work in Process:
To maintain a maximum, efficient level of raw material as well as lowest costs for production is essential for the production department.
o A system which can estimate and track the optimum level of raw material reduces the cost for production procedure,
o It must be able to monitor the storage level of raw material and communicate with the public demand for drugs as well.
o The system should also provide a shared database between ECOLI and its suppliers, to shorten the time of ordering and delivery raw material.
o Since some of the raw materials are intermediate goods buy from suppliers, the system must have a capacity which can monitor the production procedures and materials suppliers use, to avoid suppliers to charge a higher price.
o The system should have a historical disease database. Since lots of important chemical materials are extracted from fossil fuel, the company needs to store extra fuel in order to handle disastrous diseases (SARS, bird flu, etc.) base on past historical trends. This storage strategy can also get rid of the risk of price increasing.
o Chemical raw material has very strict requirements on surrounding environment. Thus, the system must be able to sort chemical raw material by their characters (temperature, smell, chemical property), to reduce the probability of chemical inter-pollution since they have very strict requirements on surrounding environment.
o The system should records all information of raw material, including the name, purchase date, opened date and expire date, to lower the turn over rate and the unnecessary waste of raw material.
o The system should have a function to monitor water quality. Drugs produced with non-sterile water is defective, and must be destroyed because they may already been polluted.
Suppliers Selection
Suppliers should be carefully selected based on...
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