Tasks Completed [ 2012-11-18 - 2012-11-25 ]

Following tasks were completed.

• Prepare final presentation slide show.
• Prepare Project Set-Up Guide.

Tasks Completed [ 2012-11-11 - 2012-11-18 ]

Following tasks were completed under this section.

• Verify all basic data.
• Scenario Testing with Distribution consultant.
• UI testing.
• Schedule Report testing.

Tasks Completed [ 2012-11-04 - 2012-11-11 ]

Following tasks have been completed.

• All client files have been copied to document root.
• All report file changes including "RDF" and "CDB" files were deployed.
• Crytal Report (RPT) files were copied to document root.
• Modified server files (API and APY) were deployed and compiled.

Tasks Completed [ 2012-10-28 - 2012-11-04 ]

Following tasks have been completed under quality testing.

• Scenario Testing related to procurement flow.
• Purchase Order related functionalities.
• Forecasting Report logics and report layouts. 

Tasks Completed [ 2012-10-21 - 2012-10-28 ]

Following bugs and issues have been identified and done permanent fixes.

• Forecasting Report Issues.
• Purchase Order History Update Fixes.
• Report Layout Issues.

Tasks Completed [ 2012-10-14 - 2012-10-21 ]

Following system functionalities have been tested again to find out any bugs or issues in the system.

• User Login
• System Data Modifications
• Message Sending
• Message Downloading

Tasks Completed [ 2012-10-14 - 2012-10-21 ]

• Forecast Report Testing

Following reports have been tested for all input criterias and scenarios with exiting data.

• Weekly Forecast Report
• Monthly Forecast Report

Tasks Completed [ 2012-10-07 - 2012-10-14 ]

• Forecast Report Developments

Completed tasks have been illustrated in below section.

• Setup Report Development Environment
• Developed Report Files (RDF)
• Developed Report Layout Files
• Configured Report Layouts
• Report File Deployments

Setup Report Development Environment

For report developments following environments have been set up.

• IFS Extended Server Set Up
• IFS RACE Print Server Set Up
• Crystal Report Installation to Support IFS reports

IFS Extended Server Set Up

IFS RACE Print Server Set Up

In order to preview and print reports, this print server has to be set up. Following diagram shows print server as service where administrator can start by RMB option.

Crystal Report Installation

For report layout design Crystal Reports have been used.IFS reporting tools supports Crystal reports as a third party application. For internal use I had to install seperate version of Crystal Report software.

Report Files (RDF)

These RDF files are used to write report logic in IFS applications.These files have been created using IFS Design tool initially and after that report logic has been completed according to requirements.Two reports have been developed to view weekly and monthly forecast details.In order to store data I had to create two tables using CRE files. Following diagram illustrates report files which have been created.

Report Layout Design

Report Deployments

Tasks Completed [ 2012-09-30 - 2012-10-07 ]

• Download Functionality

Following functionalities have been completed under this.

• Download - Messages
• Download - Message Details
• Download - Firm Orders
• Download - Firm Order Files
• Download - Forecast
• Download - Forecast Files

Tasks Completed [ 2012-09-23 - 2012-09-30 ]

• History Data Related Functionalities

Following UI functionalities have been completed under this section.

• Overview - Firm Orders
• Overview - Forecast
• View - Message/Notes

Overview-Frim Orders

Logged user may be able to view Purchase Orders under corresponding Supplier code as shown in below screen-shot. Also user can delete order history through this screen as well. User can query by Supplier or Due date range.

               
After Deletion of a PO from History, user can only view existing orders as illustrated in below diagram.

                                          

Overview - Forecast

Search/Query by Supplier , Forecast Type and Due Date functionalities have been implemented. In addition to that "Delete" option also there. Once user has used forecasting functionality he/she will be able to view forecasting history data through this screen. Following diagram shows implemented funtionality areas.

                                 
Once entire Forecasting functionality and reports are completed user will be able to see history data. Currently I have been working on Forecasting functionality and reports.

View-Message/Notices

Logged user can view messages which have come through WEBEDI functionality. Search facility according to different search criteria has been completed.User can monitor entire message and notices through this screen. Also user can delete message and notices as well.

                               

Tasks Completed [ 2012-09-16 - 2012-09-23 ]

• Purchase Order Related Modifications
• Some of Shipment realted changes

Purchase Order Modifications

Following diagram shows a sample Purchase Order (PO) in IFS. Key data fields such as supplier, part number delivery date have been highlighted in below diagram.


Test Date Used: Supplier in PO is 29-002, Part Number is 29-320, Wanted Delivery Date is 2012-10-05
Note: WebEDI User ID related to supplier 29-002 is 29-002-12 (WebeDI User ID = SupplierCode + id). Only this user can view Purchase Orders which comes from supplier 29-002.

I have completed following functionalities under purchase order modification functionality.

• Query options to view purchase order line details.System provides several query criterias such as by order number, part number, delivery date range, shipped status and invoice number.

          Following section describes query functionality with test data.
          User Id = 29-002-12 is of type normal user. After logging from this user and query by PO.
          Then click "Search" button and system will show PO details as illustrated in below diagram.
         
          Query By PO

         Query By Part Number


         Query By Due Date
         Query By Shipped Status
                                     

• Clear options to clear all query data and continue. By pressing clear button user can clear all existing data in header section. System will show empty fileds for each column as below.
                   

• View purchase order line details via link provided under purchase order number column.

                                  

Change Due Date

User can change delivery date using this functionality.After clicking update button new delivery date field will be updated in IFS Purchase Order line table.

                                       
After Modifying Date user can view updated date as below screen-shot.
                                      
                                      

IFS Purchase Order Line

When Query in IFS Applications ( Distribution) user can view that delivery date has been updated to newly entered date.

                                 

Purchase Order Line -History

User can view Purchase Order Line history through Distribution and further identify changes as illustrated in below diagram.
Note: Through WEBEDI , IFS Purchase Order history also updates.

                                      

Purchase Order - Split PO Lines

When user clicks Split option, system will prompt to enter order quantity under same line number with a different release number as shown in below diagram.

After updating, a new line will be created in Purchase Order line tab with a new release number. This has been shown in following diagram.
                                    
Apart from that system will maintain separate columns for EDI split PO tracking in Purchase Order line table.

PO Line History - Splitted Details

Shipment Related Functions

Pick List Report

Label Report        

Tasks Completed [ 2012-09-10 - 2012-09-16 ]

• Shipment Changes

Following changes have been completed under Shipment.

• Delivery Note

Delivery Note

When user clicks tick box which is in PO Line section, print buttons will be enabled.

Print Delivery Note

When user clicks "Create D/N" button, following screen will appear. Then user can print "Delivery Note".
   

Delivery Note Report

User can print report and save this as a PDF file.

                                   

Tasks Completed [ 2012-09-01 - 2012-09-09 ]

• Download Message Functionality
• Purchase Order Modifications IFS related changes

Download Messages

There are 3 main funtionalities under this as given below.

• Firm Orders
• Forecast
• Message Inbox

Frim Orders

User can search by Supplier code and download order details.

Forecast

This will show forecasting details according to suppliers. User may be able to download forecasts through this screen.

Message Inbox

User can view messages which have been sent by other users. Also he/she can download those messages through this screen.


                                        
                                    
                                    
                              

Tasks Completed [ 2012-08-27 - 2012-08-30 ]

• History Data Screens

Following screens have been completed under this.

• Overview - Firm Order
• Overview - Forecast
• Message/Notice

Overview - Firm Order

User can  check the firm order download history from this screen by querying by supplier or date range.

Overview - Forecast

User can check the forecast download history from this screen. User can query by supplier, forecast type (weekly, monthly ,all) and date range.

Message/Notice

User can check message history from this screen, user can query by supplier, category and message date range.

Tasks Completed [ 2012-08-27 - 2012-09-01 ]

• Send Message Functionality

User can send Web EDI messages and mails using this functionality. Also user can attach commonly used file types such as pdf,excel,txt files.Following diagrams show send message functionality.


                                        
             

Tasks Completed [ 2012-08-23 - 2012-08-26 ]

• Message Screens
• Purchase Order Screens
• Shipment Screens

Message Screens

Users can send EDI messages and e-mails to suppliers using this screen.

Purchase Order Screens

• Purchase Order Detail
• Purchase Order Status

Purchase Order Detail

Purchase Order Status

Shipment Screens

• Delivery Note
• Picking List and Label

Delivery Note

User can change actual weight in order lines to create and print delivery note.

Picking List and Label

Tasks Completed [ 2012-08-19 - 2012-08-26 ]

Most of the basic functionalities related to following screens were completed.

• Main Screen
• System Data Screen

Main Screen

This screen provides all the links to system functionalities as illustrated in below diagram.Accessing each system functionality depends on user access rights.
                                 

Administrator

Admin user can access all system functionalities including system data for web EDI.

Normal Users

Normal users can be of different categories such as Suppliers,Users from customers, etc.These users may or may not be able to access certain functionalities depending on access rights. For example Supplier users can not perform system data functionalities.

System Data Screen

Administrator has the access to system data screen. This provides following functionalities.

• Access Group management
• Delete Old Data
• Maintain Users
• Create System Parameters

Access Groups

Admin user can search by access group and view available access groups in the system. He can add new access groups as well. Apart from that admin can delete existing access groups as well.

Delete Old Data

Admin can delete old data in the system.There are four criterias provided when deleting data as illustrated in below screen. A warning message has been given for the user.

Maintain Users

Admin can view existing users under several search criterias as given below. After viewing, he can add new users to the system.Deletion of old users is also possible.

                                   

 

System Parameters    

This functionality is used to set system parameters for message passing like sending mail to other users.
Following diagram shows an sample parameter which has been set for mails.