Attend Advantage 311 demo

amenity commented 5 years ago

Objective

Learn about Advantage 311 to see if it would meet our warehouse inventory management needs.

Participants

DTS: Diana, Amenity SMB: Lauren Seyeda, Christina Tremel, Kati Alcantara, Anthony Forcier AMD: Ray Flores, Johnny Padron Purchasing: Sam Dominguez Controller's: Jennifer Margolis-Husted, Fabian Mesa

Summary

Sam walked us through the slide deck that CGI presented to everyone a few weeks ago. No one has gotten a software demo, just screenshots of new features, but he also walked us through the current application.

If we want to use the enhancements, we need to tell Sam by Friday. They discouraged us from doing this if we are still evaluating solutions because it will require a substantial amount of their resources (plus time from our materials managers) to configure the application for us to test.

AMD likes the ability to track items, but it's not clear how robust that part of the functionality is, given that the core functionality was built around purchasing. Seems likely that a vendor solution built specifically for inventory and asset management would be a better fit.

Amenity & Diana's main concerns are:

On-prem solution, need to be on network. Adds a layer of complication for field work
Not clear weather application can be used from a mobile device
Only 30% of AMD's asset types are even in AIMS, so this would only be a partial solution.

Next steps

Amenity reaching out to Austin Water to find out why they decided not to stick with Advantage #71
Amenity emailing list of questions to Sam to give to CGI #72

Notes

Diana's notes Amenity's notes

johnclary commented 5 years ago

thanks @amenity. this is a 100% no-go.

johnclary commented 5 years ago

@dianamartin i don't have access to your notes via the link above.

dianamartin commented 5 years ago

@johnclary I just shared my notebook with you.

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