Week 4
This week we continued on working on different topics simultaneously:
Voice Enabled Picking
Follow this Link, to get a little overview what Voice Enabled Picking is.
There are two possible ways to implement Voice Enabled Warehouse into a company:
Link a subsystem to SAP which is compatible with SAP
Activate ITSmobile on SAP
Subsystem
The market is shared by different voice picking providers. One of the most common and reliable provider is Wavelink. They have a web-based application called Wavelink Speakeasy, which does not require any additional voice server hardware.
+ no other hardware required
+ good partner at the background
+ different middleware, not SAP
- higher investment costs
- more effort for implementation
ITSmobile
ITSmobile stands for Internet Transaction Server which accesses the SAP system using a mobile browser. It has more features than the SAP webconsole. Because there is a limited maintenance on SAP webconsole, SAP recommends to use ITS. ITSmobile is a browser based technology that can be used from any mobile device that support mobile application including barcode scanner (2D Datamatrix). With ITSmobile it is possible to include voice picking in a simple way.
+ no license costs
+ no other middleware
+ SAP based
+ voice picking
+ displacement of SAP webconsole
- requires some basic understanding of the SAP ITS development process and the process of generate html templates from ITS Dynpros
- lot of knowledge on HTML, CSS and JavaScript required
Currently we are trying to understand the different connections between hardware and software and what interfaces are in use. In order to help us to understand it better we have contacted different provider of voice picking solutions.
Picking process map
In order to perform a gap analysis we transformed the current picking process map from a flow chart in a BPMN 2.0 chart. Here is the result:
Standards and Guidelines
NIGP 115.00
NIGP 115.00 “Certificates of Conformance for Commercial Electronic Parts” is an industry guideline from ECIA (Electronic Components Industry Association). The goal of this standard is to maintain documented traceability records as evidence for an unbroken chain of ownership from the original component manufacturer through the authorized supply chain to the customer by providing an Authorized Distributor Certificate of Conformance.
AS 5553
AS 5553 “Fraudulent/Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Avoidance, Detection, Mitigation, and Disposition” is a standard from SAE International. This standard encompasses more requirements, foremost process related requirements, than the NIGP 115.00 guideline. In fact, what ECIA recommends is just one little piece of AS 5553. To reach the AS 5553 level, a company has to qualify for a quality standard like ISO 9001 first and has then to establish a counterfeit electronic parts control plan. This plan includes seven steps: Parts Availability, Purchasing, Purchasing Information, Verification of Purchased Product, In Process Investigation, Material Control, and Reporting.
Other Standards
There are other AS standards concerning counterfeit electronic parts like ARP 6178 “Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Tool for Risk Assessment of Distributors” or AS 6081 “Fraudulent/Counterfeit Electronic Parts: Avoidance, Detection, Mitigation, and Disposition – Distributors Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Avoidance Protocol, Distributors”. It is beyond the scope of this chapter to explain all of them. They can be looked up at: http://www.sae.org/.
JESD 31D “General Requirements for Distributors of Commercial and Military Semiconductor Devices” is a standard from JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) which provides standards for the microelectronics industry. This standard includes general requirements concerning points like quality system, document control, supplier value added processing, records and record retentions, inventory control, calibration, training, audits, and OEM warehouses. Furthermore it includes comprises requirements like a certificate of conformance and packing procedure for military.
On the present stage of our knowledge there is no ISO standard which covers counterfeit electronic parts as such.
Current structure of our project
