2. P.E.P.N.A.D CONSULTING LTD. Business Proposal
P.E.P.N.A.D Consulting LLC Proposal
1.Description of the company:
P.E.P.N.A.D Consulting LLCis headquartered in Pune and has representative offices in 10 major
cities across India. The firm currently employs 200 full time employees and 20 seasonal
employees (on a contractual basis). The Consulting offices are located in Northern and Western
regions of India. The company is known for specializing towards the Food and Beverage sector
of FMCG companies. We are located close to their head offices and regional offices in cities like
Pune, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi. The company was founded in June 2010in the city of Pune by
the six core team members.Future plans include setting up consulting offices in Southern and
Eastern regions of the country.
Our company P.E.P.N.A.D Consulting LLC received a request for proposal (RFP) from a
renowned biscuit manufacturing company to improve the sales and the growth in revenue
resulting in better profit margins. A detailed analysis is to be conducted in order to analyze
current trends in sales covering the northern and western regions of India through the various
distributors. The data will be fed into the “Pentaho” software to help us compare various
parameters to help the company in better decision making process.
2.Our Company’s Experience in doing similar work:
Our company has undertaken similar projects in the past and has completed them successfully.
We specialize in FMCG Products especially in Food and Beverages sector. We have an
experienced team of consultants well-versed with the latest technologies and who have been
involved in similar projects in the past.
3.USPs (Unique selling points):
Our USP is the cost effectiveness which is realized by using software‟s like „Pentaho‟. This
software provides us with latest tools and techniques to generate and analyze the reports of a
particular project. There are three types of processes involved:
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a) Interactive User Report: In this, the data source is imported into the software and reports
are generated accordingly.
b) Analyzer Report: In this, the data entered is analyzed and results are displayed in terms of
bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, etc.
c) Dashboards: Based on graphs generated, we are able to compare results on various
parameters. In the case of the biscuit company, we are able to graphically find out the
revenue generated at different price points of a particular SKU type.
4.Our Understanding of Requirements:
As explained above, we will be following the same procedure for generating and analyzing
reports. The requirement is to collect the data from the client which needs to be analyzed. After
that, the data is analyzed and the reports/charts are generated accordingly. Based on the results
generated, the company should be given advice to either work upon or slow down on certain
parameters that have been analyzed.
5.Technical solution/ architecture
The client‟s business faces certain challenges:
Increase in the revenue for each type of biscuit
Improvement of the profit margins for each biscuit and its SKU type
Determining the most profitable distributor
Find the most profitable regions/markets for the product
Analyse the trend in sales across regions for each product type
We propose to employ Pentaho for solving issues of the client. Pentaho User Console is the
primary web-based end user interface to view, create, and schedule reports, Interactive reports,
Analyzer reports and dashboards as well as applying access permissions to them. Our experience
and technical expertise can help us in improving the productivity of the client by use of
interactive charts and graphs.
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Pentaho Interactive Report
Pentaho Interactive Reporting provides a highly interactive and easy to use web-based design
interface for the casual business user to create simple and ad hoc operational reports, without
depending on IT or report developers.
Pentaho Analyzer
Pentaho Analyzer provides intuitive, interactive analytical reporting letting non-technical
business users quickly understand business information against Pentaho Analysis data sources.
Pentaho Dashboard Designer
A dashboard is as simple as selecting your layout, theme, and the content you want to display.
Include any type of Pentaho reports, external web pages, or dashboard internal elements (charts
and data grid) that access Pentaho Metadata data sources.
Data Collection tools
Data will be collected by the use of bills of payments, receipts obtained by the client- company
while supplying products to the distributors. We intend to maintain a database of all the
transactions taking place on the most basic level between the client company and their
distributors.
Data collection frequency
Data will be collected quarterly as the distributors place orders every quarter for a particular
SKU and biscuit type. The data analysis is done on a quarterly basis. The data collection
mechanism shall include manually obtaining the data from the clients and uploading it to the
datasource in Pentaho.
Once data sources are uploaded, we shall analyse the data in the Pentaho analyzer reports tab,
and interpret data in the dashboard.
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6. Effort Estimate:
Activity Effort required Time
required
(in days)
Requirements gathering 135 person-hours 5
Design 189 person-hours 7
Implementation 162 person-hours 6
Testing and delivery 108 person-hours 4
7. Estimated timeframe:
Tasks Start time End time
Requirements gathering 4-2-2012 8-1-2012
Design 9-2-2012 15-2-2012
Implementation 16-2-2012 21-2-2012
Testing and delivery 22-02-2012 25-02-2012
Work Breakdown structure:
Task Subtask Work package Time
required
(in days)
Requirements
gathering
Studying the existing client Setting up contact points with the .5
systems client
Getting required documents from 1.5
the contacts and studying the
existing systems
Talking to various Discussions and meetings with .5
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department personnel of the the concerned personnel
client
Team discussions regarding Discussions regarding business .5
requirements requirements
Discussions regarding inter- .5
linkages between the modules
Contacting key contact Setting up new contact touch 0.25
personnel if further points for detailed
clarifications required information/clarifications
Discussions with the concerned 0.25
personnel
Preparing final set of Collating the set of requirements .5
requirements from the team leads
Submission of final set of .5
documents for client approval
Design
Preparing the initial design- Setting up of 2 teams for this 1
high level design and low purpose
level design Collating the data from the two 2
teams for the final design
document
Re-modifying the design Discussions and meetings with 2
after client discussions the client
Rework on the modified design 1
document
Preparing the final design Submission of the final design 1
document document
Implementation
Phase-wise module level Division of the tasks at the 1
implementation module level and assignment of
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tasks to team members
Completion of all the individual 2
tasks
Re-modification of software after 1
testing results if required
Integration of the modules Step-by-step integration of the 1
if necessary project modules
Resolving problems in 1
integration if any
Testing
Preparation of test cases and Discussions with the design and .25
testing documents after implementation team and the
discussions with the design clients
and implementation team Preparation of test cases 1.25
Final sign off for the test cases .25
Testing and recording of Assignment of tasks to members .5
results of the testing team
Performance of tasks and .5
submission of results
Final sign off from the Re-testing of modified software .25
testing team and the client Final sign-off .25
Delivery Installation of the software Discussions with the client .25
at the client site personnel
Installation of the software .5
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8. Details of resources required:
Dept Role and no of people Skills required
required
Human Resource Group HR (1) Performance management,
separation management,
resource allocation
Hardware Technical Lead (1) Hardware maintenance skills
Software Technical Lead(1), System BI tools-Pentaho
Engineers (1)
Databases Technical Lead(1), System Oracle, MySQL, Teradata,
Engineers (2) data modelling
Testing Technical Lead(1), System HP-QC (HP Quality Control)
Engineers (1) tool
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9.Project Costing:
Assumptions: Overall labour force will be
divide into hours
Project Design Labour Labour Material
hours Cost(Rs)/hr cost
(Rs)/hr
Develop Functional Specifications 45 Rs15 Rs10
Develop System Architecture 45 Rs20 Rs10
Develop Preliminary Design Specification 45 Rs35 Rs15
Project Development
Develop Components 63 Rs12 Rs10
Procure Software 63 Rs30 Rs10
Procure Hardware 63 Rs25 Rs10
Project Delivery
Install System 40 Rs15 Rs15
Train Customers 40 Rs15 Rs10
Perform Acceptance Test 41 Rs15 Rs5
Perform Post Project Review 41 Rs15 Rs5
Project Management
Customer Progress Meetings/Reports 36 Rs10 Rs10
Internal Status Meetings/Reports 36 Rs15 Rs10
Third-Party Vendor Interface 36 Rs10 Rs10
Other cost ( Travel) Rs.30,000
SubTotal 594 232 130
Total 2,45,028
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10.List of deliverables:
Consolidated document which includes dashboards, graphs and charts for analysis on biscuits
sales and profits.
top3 oreo.pdf productwise.pdf region_groupby.pdf skugraphregionwise.pdf top 3 vita.pdf
orangetop3.pdf Bourbon top3 cities .pdf glucose top3citie.pdf
11. Acceptance criteria for project:
The first version of the solution will be submitted within 15days of meeting. The
recommendations on the submitted document will be considered and the final updated version
will be submitted in next 10 days of time. The solution will be in the form of hard copy as well
as two copies of CDs including both the versions.
12. Client interactions required or planned during the project:
Every week online meeting or personal meeting will be held for evaluating the status of the
project. The follow up will be done and retesting of each module of the solution will be done.
13. Knowledge transfer details:
All engineers and managers will be trained extensively on the technical and functional aspects.
14. QA&QC:
The requirements specified in the document are checked using metrics to satisfy the standard
level of measures. The sample data is tested on a regular basis. The quality and control for the
data which crosses the prescribed standard will be constantly monitored.
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