Development of a Supply Chain Management System
The Client
The client is a division of fortune 500 company in China. It is a
large mineral enterprise engaged in coal mining and processing, coal
chemical, smelt, building materials, electric power, mechanical electrical
repairing & making, light industry and chemical technology, architecture
and service sector.
What the client wanted
The challenge was to develop a SCM (Supply Chain Management) system
that met the client's requirement of materials supply management and
integration of different departments. This project should cover the
intranet construction of fifteen mines and the SCM development of
the whole mineral Bureau.
Approach
Shinetech helped the client realize its goal by implementing the following
main aspects:
- The SCM system adopted MVC (Model-View-Controller) to design modules
and adopts Struts Framework in the web layer. By offering sufficient
expansion interfaces, the engineers could adjust Struts to achieve
their special demands.
- Because of the complexity of the system business logic, we took
full advantage of the new characteristics of struts 1.1 which was
divided into several modules. Each module had its configuration
file, JSP webpage and action, etc. In this way, the resource was
easy to allocate and locate.
- Data access used the objects-relation mapping frame of Hibernate,
and the objects model was transparently imported into database by
Hibernate. Such technology made the business logic flexible and
simple.
Based on advanced J2EE and B/S structure, the SCM system, which was
delivered on time and within budget, facilitated the business workflow
of materials supply management.
Benefits
After the implementation of the system, the client has significantly
improved the work efficiency in the whole company. This has resulted
in the following:
- Helping them execute the intranet construction activities of fifteen
mines and the development of the whole mineral Bureau SCM.
- Providing valuable technical information to the implementation
team.
- Building reusable components to speed up the implementation efficiency.
- Building knowledge database and sharing knowledge with the client's
team
- Improving the inventory management procedures for obsolete and
replaced items.
Testimonials
"I just wanted to report on the excellent work and leadership of the
Java team on their work for the project. The core application work is very
good and we are most pleased and amazed with their progress. "
-- Michael Payne ,
CEO, CTI
