Intro

Powerpoint presentation summarizing

• the customers requirements for the Mammoth system,
• what has been completed relative to those requirements
• what has not yet been completed
• some general comments about cosmetic (e.g., screen consistency) things that still need to be worked
• what will be demonstrated in the demo.
  
  

Demo Tasks

• Start off in main menu
• describe all available options and that this is the main area to navigate to other parts of the system




• Go click on Customer and go into household customer area
• household customer screen first screen for customers because we figures that this is where most of the actions will occur
• Talk about the top right area -> the "jump to..." area and how you use it to jump in between different customers (household, retail, and newsboxes) and the main menu.
• talk about the add/edit /delete and sometime print buttons and their availability...
• NOTE: All information on a screen is locked until either Add or Edit is chosen. Now show that you can't change anything until you press edit The appropriate fields are enabled when these functions are chosen.




• Now add a new Household customer -
• click add
• person "john peterson"
• etc... while filling in other fields talk about other features of this screen
• account numbers automatically assigned by the system with H, R and B distinguishing the major classes of customer accounts
• need start date for delivery to start
• distinguish between mailing address and delivery address....but can enter only mailling if the sameand then fill in delivery address automatically
• can view the carrier information for this household zone
• can navigate to newspaper and magazine subscriptions for the customer as well as enter a form to manage complaints received from the customer
• click ok




• Add a new newpaper subscripton for a household customer
• add a newspaper ...
• ok
• go back to household customer screen
  
  
• Show how you search through customers (use record selectors or MS-Access Find utility)
• Use the lower left arrows
• Show an example of how you would search by name
• right click on the last name field
• select find
• type in "Name"
  
  
• Edit this record by selecting Edit
  
• changed the customers special delivery notes area to say
• "Watch out for guard dog"
• press ok
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• Add a new magazine subscription for an existing household customer
• describe this screen and it purpose -> to show/add/delete subscriptions
• add a magazine...-> tell that it defaults to a one year subscription
• ok
• go back to household customer screen





• Go to retail customer form and describe its similarities to household customers
  
  
• Go to newpaper consignment form - describe how consignment agreements are structured in the system for each customer to manage the information relevant to the amounts of each product that are to be delivered for each product in its delivery cycle
  
  
• Go back to Main Menu
  
  
  
• if time permits go into the products area...
  
  
  
• point out the options to go into functionality to maintain the information on the delivery infrastructure....such as setting up delivery routes, district information, household delivery zone information and carrier information. (note if time permits go into some of these forms to show appearance and navigation controls.
  
  
• Select the task to generate the carrier and delivery orders for the following day. Indicate that it is expected that this task will be run once a day once all changes are in for the next day's delivery schedulling. Generate daily delivery lists generate one
• Describe its functionality and what it does... ie magazine subscription stuff # copies remaining etc.
• while waiting go talk about other features
• Adding/changing
• products - changing price etc...
• carriers
• delivery zones - "Zone is an area in which a carrier delivers to"
• delivery routes - "Route is an area in which truck driver delivers to"
• districts - "Districts are there to provide demographic reports when it is implemented
• .. 1 min to talk...
  
  
• ok finally done... show the household list ....showing all the carrier information for each household delivery zone. Note that addditonal information on delivery notes is still required to be added to this report and that since the development data base only contains a few records, the report is not very long.
• point out its structures...
  
  
• show the listing of deliveries by route order for Newsboxes and Retail Customers
• point out its structure...
  
  
• NOTE: that the incorporation of Household Delivery Zone summary information into the driver delivery orders is not complete. When complete this will show in the driver delivery orders all information for each stop on the route.
  
  
• Return to main menu
  
  

Summary

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