CpSc 875

Project 2

 

E-commerce Supply Chain Management

 

Supply chain management involves the entire business cycle from purchasing raw materials from suppliers to delivering finished products to customers. In an ecommerce environment this often means that a business serves as a middle man between suppliers and consumers. For example, Amazon takes orders for books from customers and then places orders for those books with their suppliers. The supply chain management system must ensure timely delivery to consumers but not at the expense of excessive inventory. Our task is to develop an architecture for such a system. We begin with a set of requirements for the system.

 

Steps

  1. Form team and inform Dr. McGregor of the membership (you may change from your first team.
  2. Explore the domain.

Thegeneral requirements document contains a domain model.

Thespecific application requirements document provides a target application that was developed locally at Clemson.

This link provides a basic introduction to supply chain management.

  1. Search for standard architectures for the domain

 

Deliver material developed to date.  Date: March 11th, noon

 

  1. Generate candidate architectures. Here is one example.
  2. Perform Architecture Trade-Off Analysis

 

Deliver material developed to date. Date: April 8th, noon

 

  1. Fully model the selected candidate
  2. Develop complete documentation
  3. Presentation in class

 

Complete delivery Date: April 22, noon

 

Suggestions:

  1. The domain description and requirements use UML. Be certain that someone on your team knows UML.
  2. Keep a meeting log that includes who has responsibility for each aspect of the project.

 

 

Criteria:

  1. Completeness of the solution
  2. Quality of the selected architecture
  3. Clarity of presentation within time limit

 

 

Team: 4 people (more or less – ask permission first)