Fiat : Italy

In this project I mainly have been involved as a business analyst in understanding the requirements for developing a new system for reordering the stocks of components for the manufacturing of Fiat automotive. The actual ordering process was developed on a MRP solution, but not all the components of a car should use this approach, especially for "little" components like screws and nuts. For these components it is better to use an Order Point approach. With this is mind I had to interview more than a department in order to understand the requirements that have been implemented in the actual system (MRP) and translated to a new model. In doing so I have more and more appreciated the power of UML and it has been a reward to see that the developing team has appreciated that the requirement were always written in UML and not on a simple piece of paper. While working as a business analyst I had the opportunity to learn a new product for implement the Supply Chain Management, i2 technology, that back in that time was on its higher level of popularity. Working with i2 gave me the opportunity to learn and understand Oracle database and more and more java technology, this time focusing on server site programming with Java Servlet and JSP.