Value Added Services

Client Background
Fortune 500 client Footwear and Apparel Company in US ERP system developed on IBM mainframe End to end business process from order entry, customer support to back end procurement process Has several external systems like FTZ, LINE, Maersk, Fedex, Prodtrak, Kubra etc.

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Description of the Project
Retail industry has been demanding the vendors to ship floor ready product. Reebok provides this service at customer level for the accounts that request it. All apparel product shipped to these customers is hanged and/or poly-bagged depending on the customer need. Some of the retailers have requested the value added services (VAS) to be provided at various levels such as department, gender and garment type. There is a need to create new value added services as and also include the charges for the VAS in the regular invoice.

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Project Functional Details
Value Added Services

Maintain value added services Maintain VAS prices by customer Maintain customer defaults for value added services at various levels Maintain priorities of default VAS levels Apply value added services at the time of order entry for regular and EDI orders with a functionality to override default services Communicate customer requested services to warehouse Billing changes to include VAS charges on a separate line Accounting reports to include VAS charges New report of value added services

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Development Environment
IBM mainframe S-390 series. Development and support for Cobol, CICS and Clists. Use CA Endevor for source control of the code. Use VSAM file structure with KSDS access and DB2 for database requirements. Access to Reebok is through the internet via the extranet switch.