A purchase order is what a buyer creates for sellers, vendors, shippers to fulfill his requirements. In this product design, it requires a cross-system integration from the POM microservice module, FreightOnline portal and panel system, Cargowise1 freight management system, and the EDI interaction between SmartBee and the buyer's Oracle ERP.
The first critical issue is to clarify the whole business process along with the data exchange between different systems. Here's the result I created. #Tools: Miro
I break down from business flow to UI flow with wireframing on whiteboard. Our designers using this materials to create the mockup of shipping plan. "Shipping plan" is a type of shopping kart in EC platform. #Tools: Figma + Whiteboard
Here's the other flow to mockup example of PO negotiation. "PO negotiation" is what we design to fulfill the interaction and business negotiation between buyers and sellers for the specific quantity, product, delivery date, etc. #Tools: Figma + Whiteboard
I assigned a junior PM and refined the below requirements summary based on the scenarios we've gathered from customers and competitors product design.
