android mobile application for stock counting and reporting

Mobile App for Stock Counting and Reporting

(South Africa)

1Enterprise Mobility Services

Our client

A leading developer and

supplier of innovative

telemetry solutions to global

companies operating

in Africa.


While playing golf


• Our client Jade and our client’s client Stewart,

owner of a multinational brewing and

beverage company, are school buddies.

• One day while playing golf, Stewart discussed

his challenges to efficiently manage

warehouses where stock counting and stock

checking were largely executed manually

using pen, paper and MS excel.

• So Jade gave Stewart the idea to get a

mobile app developed for counting pallets

and cases in the bin with a basic interface

with limited functionality.

Bin, Pallets and Cases


Cases

PalletBins

The Process

Counters count pallets

and cases manually

After counting, enters data in

excel and syncs it with the

server for validation

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The supervisor

validates the count

Mostly the count is

inaccurate

The counter is directed to recount

the pallets and cases

The process


Problems with the manual counting process

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• Significant time loss

• Inaccurate data and rework

• Inventory count errors

• Poor visibility of the inventory

• Failure to categorize completed and pending pallet count jobs

• Too much data not enough information

Enterprise Mobility Services

We were approached to deliver an

android application that would help

to automate the counting process in

the warehouse.

The end client already had web

forms to collect the count

information of the stock.

Now they wanted it on mobile.

We were approached


We delivered – Mobile App within 5 Weeks

Mobile app for Android

developed on Xamarin. (The

code can be scaled for iOS in

the future with minor

tweaks)


Key features of the mobile app

• The app works online and offline

• Collected data can be synched offline

• If there is any discrepancy in the count, the app

notifies which pallet needs to be recounted

• The job is marked in red if there is any variance in the

count

• Different colours notify different stages of the process

• The device may be assigned multiple warehouses, but

which warehouse the collector has to go is assigned in

the mobile app

• Once the collector starts his job, the status of the job

changes to in-progress


Business benefits

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• Operational efficiency has increased

• Not many people involved in the counting process

• Operational cost has been minimized

• Jobs can be done quickly through the mobile app

itself

• More efficient counting, resulting in significant

savings

• Reduced labour cost dramatically as less counters

required

• Counting accuracy has improved

• Labour work has been reduced and now they operate

efficiently paperless


Future opportunities

• Client may market this app as a solution

after rigorous market testing

• Can be pitched to breweries

• RFID based stock counting enhancement

can be done

• Beacon based stock counting enhancement

can be done

• White labelling may come into the picture

• The application can grow in the future as

there is further scope of automation

• Mobile Device Management (MDM) also

possible in the future


To summarize, we

• Provided end-to-end mobile application

development services

• Helped to significantly reduce the development

cost

• Ensured timely and quality deliverables

consistently

• Managed skilled resources and ensured their

sustainability

• Effectively managed cost, quality and timely

deliverables

• Ensured maintenance and support throughout


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www.cygnet-infotech.com

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