The Acht code :

Goal :

Create a sustainable supply chain management application that helps businesses to maximize the efficiency of the supply chain as well as measure the sustainable products those are using in the business and create an analysis report on sustainable products with environment (carbon efficiency metrics). Also helps businesses to learn how to adopt the more sustainable resources in their business to be cost effective and save the environment.

Client : The Acht Code(Democracy lab project)

Timeline : 2 Months

Team : 3 Teammates

My Role : Product designer is responsible for designing the sustainable supply chain management web application user research to visual design. Also performed design lead role during the project to mentor and help other 2 designers for complete their tasks.

Methods : User Research, User personas, design ideation, low fidelity, application information architecture, Graphics, In depth style Guide, Accessibility,

Tools : Figma, Google Suite

Communication Channel : Slack for messaging, Google meet for meetings.

Project Management : Clickup

Problem & Solution: Supply chains are facing multiple problems. Due to its inherent complexity, this process encounters various hurdles in each of its steps. From manufacturing, retailing and transportation ...etc, it can be hard to visualize the entire process. In addition, each stage of the supply chain management [product life cycle] operations and management  affects negatively on the environment.  That’s why this project is an initiative to help companies maximize the efficiency of their supply chain while taking into consideration sustainability objectives and the company's goals.

Project Overview :

  • Data collection, management & analysis

  • Target tracking (science-based targets, Net Zero)

  • Framework mapping (CDP, GRI, SASB, UNGC, SDGs, TCFD etc.)

  • KPI and metric analysis

  • GHG emissions calculation and reporting (scope 1, 2 and 3)

  • Initiatives tracking

  • Third-party auditing

  • Flexible reporting

  • Data assurance and validation

  • Custom questionnaire distribution

  • Incident reporting

Market research (Software applications) & Business research

Business Research:

To establish the concept of sustainable supply chain management, we started research on the various small business and non profit organizations. Finally we decided to move with the Eco Friendly Business.

Here are the examples of Eco friendly business.

  • Product Cycle for Coffee shop Business.

  • Eco Friendly fabric business.

  • Paper plate business

  • Food Restaurant business

We finalized with the Coffee shop and fabric business to learn more about their operations and services to establish the concept for the application.

Software application Research

We did research on the software applications that are related to supply chain management operations. By the research we analyze so many different applications like sales forecasting, demand planning, inventory management, logistics, procurement, Analysis on overall supply chain management process. 

Most of the software applications available in the market are complex and used for large business operations. 

From these applications we finalize on the five applications for the detailed study on the supply chain management operations. 

  • Cisco - Focus on the product life cycle operations

  • NetSuit - Cloud supply chain

  • Project 44 -  Focus on the small business operations

  • Flex port - Focus on the complex logistic operations

  • Stord - Cloud Supply chain

After analysis on the above application, we decided to create a customizable software for the small business and nonprofit organizations to help maximize their efficiency on their supply chain process along with the sustainability metrics and analysis on the business to help cost effective and environment safe business. 

Establish the concept of sustainable supply chain management tool

Sample model for Sustainable supply chain product life cycle

Dress Making business:

We with the eco-friendly business which has more supply chain operations as well as we can have a more opportunity to learn more about where the sustainable products can be used in the whole supply chain process. Adopting that data and analysis to create a web application.

Eco - friendly business example : Dress Handloom (Cotton dress making) Product life cycle

This business consists of Sales, production, logistics, Procurement, Sustainability resources in the manufacturing, distribution of the process.

We started more detailed research on dress making.. Here is a sample of the dress product life cycle. This data is helpful for us to understand what are the important components to design our customizable application.

Ideation of the application

We started to build our application depending on the eco-friendly dress making business. We analysis on the each and every business operations to create and design application

Sitemap

Low Fidelity mockups for the major application screens

High Fidelity Mockups & Prototype :

Login Screen

Verify an account

Simple questions related to business

Specific questions related to business

Create a new task

By using the login screen user can

  • Login to their account

  • Register or create new account

Once user is trying to create an account or login to their account

They will get a security code in their email account.

Once user enter the code in to the application

they will access easily their business account.

When the user is trying to create an account the application will ask them a questions related to the business as well as security.

Once user can answer the security questions in to the application. User can easily access the application.

The application will ask user to specific questions related to the business.

These answers helps application to create a number of department, assign to

teammates, Major operations that user is expecting to perform this application.

If the user wants to create a new task related to supply chain management application.

User can simply create an account.

While creating the account user can enter the task name associated with the department as well as with the team members.

Also user can directly upload or sync the secured files to the application to spend less time to analysis on the new and existing supply chain related data.

Dashboard and remaining application Screens

Dashboard Overview

Sales Dashboard

Inventory Management Dashboard:

Logistics Dashboard:

Production Dashboard:

Procurement Dashboard:

Sustainability Dashboard:

By using the dashboard screen user can

  • all the latest progress on overall supply chain process.

  • View the update summary on supply chain process with every department

  • User can view the last notifications related to the supply chain process.

By using the sales dashboard user can

  • View the latest progress on the sales forecasting.

  • Annual, monthly, weekly wise user can see the sales analysis.

  • User can see the latest updated on sales as well as detail summary on sales operation. If is there any over due tasks then user can immediately take an action on the over due tasks.

Users can easily track total inventory related tasks through this dashboard.

Users can easily track total logistic related tasks through this dashboard.

Users can easily track total production related tasks through this dashboard.

Users can easily track total procurement related tasks through this dashboard.

Users can easily track total sustainability related tasks through this dashboard.

Also learn new sustainable resources that they can use in their business and they can adopt more sustainable resources into their business to save the environment. 

Next Steps

  • We have worked on the V1 version of the application and the application is in the development stage. If we get an opportunity to work on more time and opportunity to go with V2, V3.. Etc versions we can have more opportunity to learn more about specific areas of the application that we can improve.

  • Through the application we can have more opportunities to learn more about the sustainable resources that we can include in our application to help people to adapt more sustainable resources in the business.

  • Focus more on the sustainable resources research to help business people to save the environment.