ViziScan - THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS PRACTITIONERS ALLIANCE

www.tocpractice.com Third International TOCPA Conference 24-25 November 2012, Moscow

Theory Of Constraints Practitioners Alliance ● TOCPA

ViziScan - Mobile Based Applicationfor TOC Replenishment Solution

Kavi Panjwani

EKI COMMUNICATIONS, India



Kavi Panjwani

Kavi has over 15 years of experience in global

software product deployment and consulting.

He is a serial entrepreneur and has founded

Eki Communications which develops advance

Enterprise Mobility Solutions in 2009 and

Revamp Consulting in 2007 which develops

enterprise solutions for TOC implementation .

Kavi holds a bachelors degree an Engineering

degree from Mumbai University and Masters

in Computer Science from BITS , Pilani . Kavi

has also done his Executive General

Management from Indian Institute of

Management ( IIM) Bangalore . Kavi loves

Automobiles and Vedic scripture study .

[email protected]

T :- +91 9820033144


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Tactics: Stocks are on TOC Replenishment system

Injection 2

Per every SKU inventory target

levels (Stock Buffers) at every

level of distribution are set and monitored to

ensure 100% availability

Injection 3

The mechanism for getting daily

consumption data from all

involved levels of distribution is

in place

Injection 4

Frequent replenishment to every next level of distribution according to

consumption and priority system based on buffer

status is in place

Injection 6

Stock Buffer Management for recovery actions is in

place

Injection 5

Dynamic Buffer Management (DBM) is in place for

maintaining the right sizes of Stock Buffers

per every SKU-location

Copyright 2011 © Oded Cohen & Jelena Fedurko

Immediate improvement

in availability

Injections 2-6

Mindset

Distribute to ensure availability

Injection 1

Continuous improvement

POOGIProcess of Ongoing Improvement

Injections 7-10

TOC Solution for DTA –

Distribute to Availability



Mobile Based

Inventory Control

Solution

Current Challenges in getting consumption data from the last leg of Supply Chain

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Real time consumption data

required

Injection

SCM Solution’s reach is limited to

the enterprise

SCM Solution’s reach is limited to

the enterprise

Low skilled PersonnelLow skilled Personnel

Unreliable Web

Connectivity

Unreliable Web

Connectivity

How to get

this data

from the last

node in the

Supply

Chain?

Solution



Using a Mobile Based Inventory Solution

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Mobile Based Inventory Control

Mobile Based Inventory Control

Real time data

availability

Real time data

availability

Easy to Use

Easy to Use

Offline data collection

Offline data collection



Eki ViziScan- Mobile Inventory Control

• The Eki ViziScan is a mobile barcode and QR code scanner

application on the Smart devices with a cloud backend

• Capture Sales and Stock transactions from secondary or

tertiary supply chain nodes

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Demo

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Step 1 : SCAN Step 2 : UPLOAD Step 3 : ACCESS



Eki ViziScan – How it works

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ViziScan App

HTTP over

GPRS

Webserver

IIS

ViziScan Cloud App

SQL Sever

ERP/SCM Server

HTTP User Machine

(any machine with web browser )

Reports

.CSV, .XLS

ViziScan Cloud Server



Benefits of Eki ViziScan

• Get real-time view of daily sales until the last mile

• Reduce the risk of losing sales due to early warning about lack of availability. [This is valid when the replenishment system does not initiate replenishment actions due to wrong data (while assuming there is enough stock)]

• Distinguish between Fast movers, Slow movers and Stocked out

• Capture Zero Sale and Return Sales

• Receive location-wise , SKU-wise consumption

• Pay per use

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Case Study – Godrej Locks

• ClientGodrej Locking Solutions & Systems is a leader in the physical security space in India.

With a network of over 300 distributors and nearly 20,000 retailers spread across the

country, the company achieved a turnover of Rs 450 crores in FY2012 and plans to

double this by FY2017.

• ChallengeMoving from a Sales based forecasting to a pull based demand forecasting.

Tracking end customer sales , the tertiary data to get supply chain Visibility

• SolutionViziScan- Cloud based mobile barcode scanning solution was deployed at the top 500

retailers in Godrej’s supply chain

• Benefits1.Timely and accurate availability of sales and inventory data

2. Improve replenishment strategy

3.Improve its inventory turns by 50%

4.Sales increased by 80%

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THANK YOU

Contact Us:

Kavi Panjwani - +91 9820033144

Sunil Palrecha - +91 9820426895

Email : [email protected]

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