At zeb, we understand the challenges businesses face in managing inventory, from tracking stock levels to ensuring timely replenishments and maintaining accurate records. As an AWS Advanced Tier Consulting Partner, zeb specializes in designing and implementing custom-built inventory management solutions that enhance operational efficiency and drive business growth.

Our offering is crafted to provide real-time insights into your inventory, ensuring you can prevent stockouts and overstock situations. Utilizing AWS's robust infrastructure, our solution supports real-time inventory tracking, automated alerts for inventory thresholds, and comprehensive sales and order traceability. By integrating these capabilities into your existing workflows, our solution enhances inventory accuracy, reduces operational costs, and provides valuable insights through advanced analytics. With zeb's expertise and AWS's advanced services, your business can achieve new levels of operational excellence and inventory management.

Key Features Depending on Your Specific Needs and Objectives

• Real-time Inventory Tracking: Use Amazon DynamoDB for accurate, real-time inventory updates and AWS IoT for tracking stock levels, ensuring your inventory data is always current and reliable.

• Automated Alerts: Implement AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) for sending automated alerts when inventory thresholds are reached, allowing for timely replenishment and preventing stockouts.

• Sales and Order Traceability: Utilize Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora for relational data management and tracking, providing a clear view of sales and order history for better decision-making.

• Advanced Analytics: Leverage Amazon QuickSight and AWS Glue to generate near real-time reports and interactive dashboards, offering deep insights into inventory trends and performance metrics.

• Inventory Forecasting: Incorporate Amazon SageMaker for building and deploying machine learning models to forecast inventory needs, optimizing stock levels and improving supply chain efficiency.

Deliverables Depending on Your Specific Needs and Objectives

• Future-State Architecture Diagram: A detailed architectural blueprint outlining the integration of AWS services, including Amazon DynamoDB, AWS IoT, Amazon RDS, and others, tailored to your inventory management requirements.

• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Estimation: A precise projection of the operational expenses associated with the proposed inventory management solution using our pre-configured AWS Pricing Calculator.

• Integration and Deployment Support Plan: A comprehensive plan outlining the steps for integrating the inventory management solution into your existing infrastructure and workflows. This plan ensures minimal disruption to your operations during the transition.

• Ongoing Monitoring, Optimization, and Support Strategy: A strategy for continuous monitoring and optimization of your inventory management system, including support plans for fine-tuning and enhancing the system to adapt to your evolving business needs and maintain optimal performance.

• Custom Scoped Solution Development Proposals Based on Your Specific Needs and Objectives:

  • Real-time Inventory Tracking: A proposal for implementing a robust inventory tracking system using Amazon DynamoDB and AWS IoT for real-time updates and monitoring.

  • Automated Alerts: A plan for setting up automated alerts with AWS SNS to notify you when inventory levels reach predefined thresholds, ensuring timely replenishment.

  • Sales and Order Traceability: A proposal for using Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora to manage and track sales and order data, providing comprehensive traceability and reporting.

  • Advanced Reporting and Analytics: Recommendations for leveraging Amazon QuickSight or AWS Glue to create custom reports and dashboards, offering valuable insights into inventory performance.

  • Inventory Forecasting with SageMaker: A design proposal for incorporating Amazon SageMaker to develop and deploy machine learning models for accurate inventory forecasting and optimization.

Timeline

The assessment and road mapping phase typically spans approximately 2 weeks, while the implementation activities may require 4-12 weeks (depending on the scope, size of the project, and availability of your project sponsor and technical teams).

Next Steps

Our typical next steps involve showcasing our previously implemented solutions, submitting a proposal for implementation services, including future-state architecture recommendations, technical design and implementation, testing, and production cut-over.