Joint proposal from Procurement & Supply and Fleet & Operational Servicesfrom Procurement & Supply and Fleet & Operational Services To Scope, design, source, train and implement bar coding for the three Supply Services Locations $($AJT $,$ EROC and Greenway $)$ and three City Operational Centers $($AJT $,$ EROC and Greenway $)$In $2023,$ Supply Services $(3)$ three locations initiated approximately $21,000$ purchase orders, containing various amounts of inventory. The PO receipts, totaling $20,621$ various goods were brought into Supply Services. Those goods must be manually counted, authorized, and manually keyed into JDE before the paperwork is sent off to Accounts Payables to pay the invoice $($s $).$Receiving and issuing out this many products with paperwork, inevitably leads to human error, including; receiving errors, counting errors, issuing errors, and account coding mistakes. The benefits start with eliminating the time wasted in correcting manual keying errors during issuing and receiving goods for inventory. From the chart provided below, both Bathurst and EROC Supply Services had to make over $115$adjustments each over the course of the year, adding up to lost time as well as cost inefficiencies. Supply Services without barcoding system If current rates of errors and inventory inaccuracies continue as business volume increase, additional resources will be required to support increasing customer service demands. Supply Services labour costs $($Salary & Fringe $)$ are currently $ $0.14$ per dollar of goods issued. Assuming a natural increase in Purchasing volume of $1\%$ year $,$in addition to $ $96$ of BRT and WaterWorks projects between $2019-2028,$ Supply services would conservatively require two more Full Time Employees However, efficiencies generated by implementing Bar Coding will reduce the labour cost per dollar of inventory issued from $ $0.14$ to $ $0.12-$ savings of one hour per day, per Full Time Employee.Without a barcoding system, mechanics are performing more non $-$value $-$added tasks such as manual paperwork which could reduce the Fleet Services maximized skilled labour time on the job. Efficiencies would be delayed leading to too many without a steps in the process, longer than required downtime, inaccuracies, and errors within the process. Barcoding Less than optimum accountability for costs as work orders do not capture real time estimate charges. System However, It is anticipated that once full implementation is adopted that up to $30$ minutes per day of non $-$value added time could be eliminated for each technician. This could equate to $3,700$ hours per year of labour $($$ $100,000+)$ saved through attrition and position rationalization. Please help me form atleast $4$ page reasearch report for the following case and please cite any information you use if possible. Using following format. Executive Summary

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