

Arnold C.
UI/UX Designer & Researcher

intercompany Transaction
(2021-2022)
While working in a major retail company for home - renovation, a project was to help the company to save money in case of shortage, overstock, test on a product - reference in a business unit.
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The objective was to simplify the manual process at this time, when a business firm (= country) buys/sells a product to another one.

Sketching
The Intercompany Transaction project included 3 applications :
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one to request/offer a product stock and find business contacts
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one to calculate the intercompany price "ICP"
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one to create - validate the order and logistic.

Screen Flow
Here's the screen flow of the Intercompany transaction application suite.
First, it is composed with "Exchange Market":
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menu environment application
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creation of a request (Offer flow is very similar) and access to offer details

Then it is "Spice", when range manager found another on to deal with :
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agreement correspond to a deal between two business units
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deal is above agreement level: it is splitted into 9 different steps to parameter a deal perimeter and costs

Finaly, "Intercompany Sales" to create and validate the order:
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​create the order as a buyer by uploading product list from "Spice
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valide - reject order as a seller

Mockup

Collaborator portal global menu with the intercompany transaction entry in its structure.

Exchange Market homepage includes shortcuts to reach main features of the application: create a request/offer.

Create a request (or offer) includes 3 steps: search for product - reference and quantity the Business Unit requests, then check Business Units that have stocks and choose the one to request ; finaly launch the request with delivery date expected.

Spice homepage is a dashboard listing agreements : legal acceptance between business units to do business during a determined timing.

Agreement contains multiple deals or simulation : range of products - references with specific price parameters negociated.

Deal creation is a long process with multiple steps, first one consists into fill its duration, and currency(ies).

Before to validate the deal creation, the application calculates the InterCompany Price on a sample of products to check price parameters consistancy.

After calculate the ICP, buying BU can create the order by filling the order template with products and quantities.

Intercompany Sales app checks possible error on products and InterCompany Prices calculated previously.

By the end of the global process, the order is created and has to be confirmed by the Selling BU.
This ecosystem of 3 applications is now helping Business Units to:
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reduce shortage and overstock situation
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reduce delay to send/receive products and avoid missing seasonal business - sales
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increase business between units of the group (+ from different entities)
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make units business legally