The WINGS team

Currently about 7 people are working in Brindisi the prepare the UNHRDs for the new release of WINGS, the corporate ERP system. While Nadia (featured in our previous post) leads the WMS (Warehouse Management System) efforts, Eva (on the far left) and her team head the migration for all finance and procurement workflows.

Nadia, our WMS guru

The Warehouse Management System (WMS) is our of the "back-end systems" we use in the Portal project. It runs on SAP and contains the warehouse inventory of the items the UN Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRD) have in stock. It also supports the whole workflow from receiving goods, storing, picking and dispatching goods.

WMS is integrated in the WFP corporate ERP system, "WINGS".

The new Portal (the front-end website) we are designing will read and write data onto the WMS during the ordering and dispatching process. It will ensure that the data we represent in the Portal is correct and up to date.

Currently, the UNHRD Warehouse Management System is being rolled out, and at the same time upgraded to a new SAP version. So a whole team of experts have their hands full.

Nadia is our Brindisi-based devil-do-it-all, supervising the WMS-team. If anyone in WFP knows the WMS system, she is the one.

2009 planning - serious business

The Deliver dudes in Brindisi, sweating out the 2009 planning. (From left to right: Peter, Temmy and Mats)

The main modules of the Deliver project we will work on in 2009, are:

1. The Non-Food Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- WINGS II rollout for Brindisi
- Product Catalog
- Integrating non-brindisi stock and sheets to WMS I
- Migrate WMS I data to WMS II
- Migration of non-Brindisi UNHRD stocks to WINGS
- deployment barcoding system
- Automation between Wings II and Portal

2. The Logistics Portal
- Release 1 (being developed now)
- Release 2 (will concentrate on country office needs)
- Release 3 & 4 (will be fine tuning releases)

3. Fleet Management System
- Orientation for Fleet Manager
- Completion & validation of all reports & screens
- Development by Chevin
- Pilot Roll out
- Roll-out to the field

4. Food commodity (COMPAS) Upgrade
- COMPAS Assessment
- Handover of support
- Requirements Gathering on upgrade
- Development
- Testing - Pilot Roll out
- Roll-out to the field

5. Non Food Item Tracking system
- Requirements Gathering - NFI
- Development of interim NFI system
- Testing / Pilot Roll out
- Roll-out to the field
- Analysis for merger with COMPAS

6. Flight Management Application
- Requirements Gathering
- Research on similar software on the market
- Development / configuration
- Testing / Pilot Roll out
- Roll-out to the field

7. Customer Relationship Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Research on software availability on the market
- Procurement
- Configuration, Testing & Pilot Roll out
- Roll-out for usage

Our first post - planning 2009

Temmy and I flew to join Mats in Brindisi today to map out the 2009 team planning. Thinking of ways to plan the project for next year, I thought this would be the right moment to start jotting down notes about our project, "DELIVER".

It is 1 am in the morning, and I just wrapped up my emails and was ready to go to bed, but wanted to post this first. Just to kick off this project blog.

So... welcome to the blog of the WFP Logistics "DELIVER" team!

Evy, Ekram, Temmy, Diana (and her army of developers), Andrea, Selamawit, Mats and Peter.