Designing Automated Systems at Grocery stores in Walmart

Running head: DESIGNING AUTOMATED SYSTEMS AT GROCERY STORES IN WALMART
Designing Automated Systems at Grocery stores in Walmart
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DESIGNING AUTOMATED SYSTEMS AT GROCERY STORES IN WALMART1
Table of Contents
1. Background Details of Project.....................................................................................................2
2. Relevance of Project with Theoretical Definition of Project.......................................................2
3. Explanation of Organisational Structure.....................................................................................3
4. Challenges or Issues associated with Management of the Project’.............................................3
5. Description of Project Lifecycle under “Conception – Definition – Execution” framework......4
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1. Background Details of Project
Automation is the most rising technological aspect, which has affected most industries
and business from all over the world. In the current context of the project, the discussion would
be focused on the development of automation technologies within the grocery stores at Walmart.
In the context of the project, Walmart has chosen Alphabot, which is an Alert Innovation’s
Goods-to-Person (GTP) concept (Nguyen, 2017). The automated system would be respponsible
for automating the operations performed within the online grocery stores with the use of
autonomous mobile robots. These robots would be capable of performing operations in all kind
of three dimensions within a certain multilevel storage structure.
This project has been chosen because it would help the business and customers in
delivering orders at a rapid pace while also lowering the costs incurred by the company. On a
further note, the project would also be able to bring in feasibility within the operations performed
by the business and better handle orders and customers.
2. Relevance of Project with Theoretical Definition of Project
The theoretical definition of project states the performing of activities or tasks that would
be scheduled under the scope management. These activities could also be defined in the form of
a Work Breakdown Structure, thus dividing the tasks in sub-sections (Cagliano, Grimaldi &
Rafele, 2015). A project could also be defined as the transformation of given inputs and gained
outputs.
In the given context of the project, it can be discussed that the implementation of
automation systems would fit according to the theoretical defintion of the project. The project