PART’S R US PRESENTED BY: William Toups Erica Gordon Josh Wilson PROJECT SPONSOR William Gates President of Part’s R Us partsrus@yahoo.com WHO WE ARE PARTS R US IS A HOUSTON BASED COMPUTER PARTS VENDOR DEDICATED TO PROVIDING COMPUTER HARDWARE TO LOCAL BUSINESSES. HARDWARE PARTS INCLUDE: Motherboards Monitors Hardrive’s Keyboards Memory Mouse Power supplies Speakers Modems CDRom’s / DVD Rom’s Sound cards Zip Drives Video cards Network Nic Cards CPU or processor Cables BUSINESS NEEDS Parts R Us has substantially grown in the past 3 years and have had difficulty accurately balancing end of year sales for tax preparation and keeping up with inventory. Due to the company’s outdated paper-based filing system we currently have problems with located parts easily in our warehouse, we seldom misplace sales receipts and our tax consultants have threatened to charge additional fees for the additional work. PROPOSED BUSINESS SOLUTION To enhance our operational efficiency by developing an inventory system that will replace the current paper-based filing system to better serve the management team, customers, and tax consultants. SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY The new inventory system will allow the company to… Keep track of all inventory parts and sales. Easily locate stock parts located in company warehouse. Generate reports for management and end of year tax preparation. EXPECTED INPUTS & OUTPUTS Generate reports for monthly/ yearly sales and inventory. Locate / Reorder parts in timely manner Track inventory parts via- part number or description. Keep track customer purchase history CONSTRAINTS The new inventory system will need to be up and running by the end of the fiscal year November 30, 2010. Technical: Company must purchase the necessary hardware for inventory system Administrative: Company must outsource assistant for imputing all parts and descriptions in new system