The Purchase Order Application was a project I developed during my time employed at AFA Protective Systems, that looked to automate several ordering processes within the organization. The technology allowed users to input all of the parts that a warehouse or project manager desired and would autonomously determine the appropriate vendor for the specific branch. When the Purchase Orders were ready to be submitted by the staff, the system would then check to see if the parts all belonged to the specified job and ticket number the user entered in and check to see if any parts existed at another branch location. If everything looked good to the system, depending on the contents and cost of the Purchase Order it may need to go through an approval process where it would be looked over by a review team in the corporate office. Once everything seemed correct, the system would generate a PDF Purchase Order for each of the determined vendors and would send the order to the branches point of contact at each of them.
One of the major goals that were achieved through this system was a major reduction in the number or duplicate part orders that had occurred in the companies day to day operations. Within the first year of the applications development alone, the company was able to save over 150 thousand dollars by preventing the re-ordering of orders that were available in stock.
form of AFA PO app in use
Approval Screen that would allow a review team to look over the PO before approving
