Project Scheduling

Project: Open a new Warehouse

Based out of New York, CarId was a small office, with at most 3 rooms. Then Relocated to Edison, NJ and had an office of about 12 rooms, and a small warehouse. Now, in the works, is a huge warehouse facility, a little bit over 100 yards long, and 80 yards wide. Instead of house about 2% of our product, we will be housing about 50-60% of our products that we sell. This will cut shipping time down and we will have more accurate answers if items are in stock or not.

Task: Site Selection

The area in which we built the new warehouse is in an area that is close to NY, and cheap for all the bills. This area is only 15 min longer drive from Edison, NJ. It is a very good location for all the workers to drive, and it is a very large warehouse, which will benefit us.

Tasks: Construction

The construction for this warehouse was about 9 months, and is near complete. It does not have to appear nice to customers since everything is getting shipped to them. This has the necesities that any worker needs.

Gantt bar charts:

Gantt bar charts are used in retail project management with a specific focus of choosing the correct project delivery approach, assembling the right project team, tackling contract issues and negotiations, and scheduling.

Supply Chain Management

CarID's supply chain starts with its vendors, because they buy directly from their vendors. We only carry about 2% of what we sell in our warehouse. Everything comes from our vendors and gets sent direct to the customer.
Delivery: CarID has on-time delivery, because they guarantee the customer that the product will be at their house in 3 to 7 business days. Customers get a tracking number which will tell them the exact day they will be recieving the product.

Quality: CarID is well known for our customer service and customer satisfaction. Our customers have high expectations and they recieve the quality they are looking for in their products. When the products get to the customer, the customers check the product to see if it is what they are expecting. If it is not what they are expecting, they have 30 days to return the product, no questions asked.

Time: The total supply chain throughput time is the supplier, the manufacture, the packer, then the shipper.

Cost: The vendors have a specific wholesale price in which they sell their products at. We then pay that cost for the products, but we sell it to our consumers for the price that we think the market will pay for it, which is usually double the cost of what we get it for minus 20%.

Quality Control

Quality control methods

The quality control methods CarID currently utilizes is TQM. This stands for Total Quality Management. This allows CarID to oversee business and process analysis, defective products and problem solving which will increase the quality and customer satisfaction. This is very cost effective because allows us to see what parts have to be fixed before it gets to the customer. If we oversee the product, and it gets to the customer deffective, we have a unhappy customer and a problem that we now have to solve which we could have solved in the begging.

Quality Control charts

CarID can monitor process data with a variety of control charts. CarID can reuse control limits created during a previous analysis, automatically adjust control limits for simalar items and also its new items that are to come.

Types of inspections

At CarID, vendors are responsible for shipping first quality merchandise. Before anything is shipped, all items are inspected and tested. To keep the process fairly simple to do, the stockrooms are inspected to make sure they are clean and uncluttered, and that the items are rotated so the last one goes first.

Fishbone Diagrams



CarID utilizes the fishbone diagram. If something is not correct, they go through all the areas in making a problem to see where the problem originates from. This is the best way to get a problem solved. Some problems are easier to fix then others, but most are solved with this process.

Six Sigma practices



The Six Sigma certification is preferred for quality control analysist. Unfortunatly we do not practice this because this is too costly and sometimes is not worth the money spent to complete the Six Sigma. If an item is not functiona, it is more cost effective to just replace it with another one. Most of the items are made overseas and to have a six sigma practive overseas is not worth it.