1. Massmart Supply
System UpgradeSINCE WALMART PURCHASED MASSMART IN 2010, MASSMART HAS STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN WALMART’S SUPPLY CHAIN
STANDARDS. IN AN EFFORT TO BRING MASSMART UP TO STANDARDS, MASSMART INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT WILL
WORK WITH WALMART TO UPGRADE TO RFID TRACKING, SCANNING SKUS, AND AUTOMATED REORDERS NOTE: THIS IS A
CLASS ASSIGNMENT BASED ON SOME FACTS.

2. Team Members
 Charles Baynes: Supply Chain Manager
 Stacey Fitch: Database Architect
 Stephen Pallone: Field Engineer/Contract Manager
 Tobey Strauch: Systems Analyst
 Raymond Schafer: Project Manager (AKA Instructor Schafer)

3. Objective:
 Update Massmart’s current systems to mimic Walmart’s systems
 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology
 Oracle Business Intelligence
 CONSUMPTION DRIVEN PLANNING
 Allow distribution centers (DCS’s) to update with store supplies daily
instead of weekly, and interact with the suppliers
 Supply source will track their own supplies on the shelf
 Break into Regions with centralized distribution centers that have data
centers for that regions data exchange

4. Database Platform: Oracle Exadata
Database
 Needed Technology:
 Smart Flash Cache
 Smart Scan
 InfiniBand
 Scale
 Out Storage
 I/O Resource Management
 ExaLogic-Sparc
 SuperCluster
 Chosen because its pre-configured and easily executed. Also
Oracle and Cisco have international presence

5. African Region Breakdown
Region Definition:
Region 1: Nambibia, Lesotho, Swaziland
Region 2: Mauritius, Malawi, Mocambique
Region 3: Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana
Region 4: Nigeria and Ghana

6. Network Configuration
Work with CISCO to set up
networking between regions,
stores, and suppliers, as well
as communications back to
the US.

7. In Store Network Configuration
Use inputs from the scanners
for inventory and cash register
scanners to know what is on
the shelf and what has exited
the store.

8. Supplier Interface
Update the databases nightly so
that suppliers can know
changes in a day to their shelf
supplies.
This will illuminate when orders
are needed to be filled quicker.
Also, it will show seasonal trends.

9. Project Plan
 Network implementation and setting up Oracle servers will be done
in a six month time frame from July until January 2015.
 Risk factors
 Local integration in Africa
 Dependencies on Oracle and Cisco for their local interactions in the project
 Language barriers
 Social barriers
 Schedule
 Reasoning for hiring Oracle and Cisco locally and involving local
Massmart representatives.

10. Project Plan
Task Name Start Date End Date Duration
Systems Analysis 05/21/14 06/02/14 9
Contractor Retention 05/21/14 05/28/14 6
Software Purchase 05/26/14 05/26/14 1
Master Schedule for Cutovers Including
Cutover Dates
05/26/14 12/31/14 158
Milestone:Preliminary work should be
locked in.
06/02/14 07/11/14 30
Network Configuration 06/02/14 06/16/14 11
Milestone: Network should be in place. 09/26/14 11/06/14 30
UPC Database Development 06/03/14 11/21/14 124
Milestone: Database needs to be ready
for testing.
09/26/14 11/06/14 30
Change over Hardware in stores 08/25/14 12/01/14 71
Milestone: Network and Hardware should
be in place local and interconnect.
09/26/14 11/06/14 30
Testing 08/01/14 12/31/14 109
Milestone: Testing Completed 09/26/14 11/06/14 30
Training 01/05/15 01/23/15 15
Milestone: Training Completed 01/05/15 02/13/15 30
Implementation 01/05/15 02/20/15 35
Plan Phase 2 01/12/15 03/13/15 45
Plan Phase 3 04/25/15 06/04/15 30
Plan Phase 4 05/18/15 06/26/15 30

11. Training
 Team representatives will be on site during the project and during
installations for the purpose of training
 Each region will be hiring an IT manager/engineer to govern the new
system and to maintain them.
 Systems people will be needed at the store level and there must be open
communications back to Walmart, Oracle, and Cisco
 End User Training
 Supply Chain Supervisors will be responsible for updating training for the end
users
 Reports will be tailored to the end customers needs

12. Organizational Change
 The purpose of this system is to make everyone upstream in the
supply chain aware of the movement of inventory
 Less order mistakes due to more accurate data
 Accurate projections
 Cross docking
 Quicker response to customer needs
 Culturally, this will be a change and is the reasoning for involving
Massmart in the changes.
 The overall goal is to decrease mistakes and be more profitable
which will benefit Massmart and Walmart.

13. References:
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