Scope

Up-to-date information about the current stock and the needed reorders is essential in retail. Especially as more and more companies try to reduce the time and cost of storage. Digital technologies can help to stay on top of things and speed up processes.

Requirements

The branches of a large food chain planned to provide a real time stock tracking. Therefore, a mobile app should help the employees to quickly gather and transfer stock data.

Solution

With a mobile app that was developed for specific Android-based handheld scanner the employees could quickly scan and collect stock data. The industry barcode scanner in the devices allowed the processing of many articles in a short time. The data was then synchronized with an SAP ERP system and sent to an analytical database that allowed further OLAP analytics.