Errors during the receiving of products were happening. These discrepancies took a long time to fix if not caught. There was no manual way to catch these, so a program was made to read individual emails, and create a database to cross-check the point of sales system with.

1. Purchase Order IMEI Checker - June 2013 (VBA/Excel)
The company this program was developed for would order thousands of expensive products per week. These
products would be entered into the point of sale system and then ordered from the vendor. After the products
were drop-shipped to each location, the purchase order in the point of sale system would be used to receive the
shipped stock into inventory. Some devices were received as the wrong model, size or color. A program was
developed to perform daily scans on shipping confirmation emails in Outlook. A point of sale system record of
purchase order receivings was compared to the shipping confirmations from the vendor. Without a program,
each individual device would have to be searched (30 seconds several thousand times) but with this program, it
took only seconds to identify the individual devices requiring attention.
This is an example screen shot of the output report. When the program ran, all exception data requiring research showed up
here. Miscellaneous other functions were available in the tabs.
This is an example email that was sent as shipping confirmation. It was the only source of information guaranteed to be correct
that contained the actual SKU and serial number of what was ordered. When this information was compared to receivings in
the point of sale system, discrepancies are discovered.