What can you expect to see in the new DELIVER portal?

We have some great new screenshots of our new business-to-business (B2B) page on our soon to be released DELIVER portal. If you are a current or future customer of UNHRD (United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot) you will be able to access all of your transactional information online via the portal. Mind you, these might not exactly match the final product but we wanted to give you a sneak peak at what we're working on just to prove that Pavlov was right.

First stop is the order summary:

Here you can see your order ID#, Status, Last Action, Description and some additional information. This way you'll be able to view your order history before drilling down into the individual documents.

Located just below the summary are additional items which offer access to a whole range of information:

Lastly, we provide with portlet on the right side of the screen that gives you instant access to all of your docs and even shows you which docs are missing:

Incredibly cool stuff that we anticipate releasing into the wild in the coming weeks. Take a look and please don't hesitate to comment below!

UNHRD faces: Michele

Talking about 'back end systems' for the upcoming portal (see this post): the Warehouse Management System (WMS for short) is one of the big new back-end systems.

This SAP based product is keeping track of all the incoming, outgoing and stored goods of the UNHRD (the WFP managed Humanitarian Response Depots).

The WMS is a new system for UNHRD, as previously inventories were tracked through a combination of Access Databases and Excel spreadsheets.

Michele has been one of the UNHRD Brindisi aces migrating the data from the legacy systems onto the WMS.

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.