1. Garrett Mehling, Brenda Renderos & Shelbi Hood
The College Cottage
Garrett Mehling, Brenda Renderos & Shelbi Hood

2. Background Company Name: The College Cottage
Our company makes it easy for busy college students to find bedding, room décor, appliances and anything else you could think of for the perfect college dorm room or college apartment.
Our company was started by 3 college students who were tired of searching for the perfect room décor for their college dorms and apartment. We want to make it easy for other college students to find what they are looking for and not have to go to multiple stores to find everything they need.

3. Roles
System Developer: Garrett Mehling Project Coordinator: Brenda Renderos Promotion Agent: Shelbi Hood

4. Company Processes Storefront company processes Online Processes
The College Cottage is a furniture store that sells high quality, stylish furniture at affordable prices, with a storefront operation as well as an online operation.
Any product can be bought in store or online. In store orders can be picked up the same day, or delivered to your door. Online orders can be shipped or picked up in store as well.
Storefront company processes
Order products from supplier for showroom
Order Inventory for products in showroom
Keep sales and showroom workers up to date
Keep track of instore product availability
Online Processes
Customers order online
Online payment process
Warehouse fulfills order request
Product shipped to customer
Website and product availability updated

5. Products & Services Types of products
The type of products that we sell are anything and everything that a college student needs to furnish his or her new dorm room, apartment, or home. Products include, beds and bed frames, ranging in all sizes. We sell Sheets, blankets and comforters. Other products include, kitchen tables, chairs, and dining sets and accessories. We also sell furniture, desks, T.V stands, coffee tables, night stands, dressers, sofas, recliners and office chairs.
Types of services
Services we provide include helpful customer service, as well as home delivery.

6. Online and Storefront Operations
Our Storefront operation is a large showroom, where we are able to display many of our products. We have great sale representatives that know what it is like to be in college and can help you find what you are looking for.
Online Operations
Online operations are a large part of our business. Our online store is set up to where you can find exactly what you are looking for. If you are interested in beds, we have a bed section; if furniture is what you need, that is covered as well. All products come with free shipping as well, which is an added bonus.

7. Customer Demographics
Customers
Our main focus is towards college students or young adults from the ages of 18 to 25. We offer a wide variety of furniture that will appeal to college students by being cool, hip and young looking. Buying great furniture or appliances at a great price can be hard to find, but our store provides our customers low cost which is often important to college students as college is pricey.
Our storefront customers are young adults in college or have some type of school experience because our store would be affiliated with different universities and colleges. Our online storefront would include young adults that would be able to assist customers with any trouble they are having or with help finding their perfect piece of furniture. The online site would mostly be targeted at student who do online school, are in a school setting where our company is not easily accessible, or are not in school at the moment.

8. Marketing Marketing Mix
We are providing multiple goods to our customers. These products are going to be sold at a very low cost to make it affordable for our customers. Our products will be available 24/7 online and shipping will take 3 to 5 business days. Our consumers will have the option of a “Speedy Cottage Delivery” option when buying online which will have items shipped within 2 business days for an extra small fee. We will also provide a wide variety of options in our storefront, but more colors and patterns of a product in the store will be available online. Promotion will take place primarily through social media sites connected through Universities and colleges as well as flyers and advertisements posted around actual schools.
Marketing Strategies
Storefront:
Collaborating with the different Universities and Colleges to help promote both the school (by having products with school colors and logos) and our own products through the schools allowing a bigger population of students to be reached.
Having a fun and welcoming store with deals and promotions on windows and indoors will not only help emphasize our store's excitement, but also draw other people into the store that have not seen other types of promotions.
Online:
We will allow customers to leave comments and reviews on our page. With these comments, we can not only see what we need to improve on, but use them to promote ourselves and satisfy our customers with their wants and needs.
Coupon promotions and sales will be posted on the sides of every webpage to emphasize our great deals which will cause customers to click and have more of a need to buy something.

9. References
Baltzan, Paige. Business Driven Information Systems. 5th ed., McGrawHill, Print.

10. The College Cottage Part II

11. What does our company do?
WHAT OUR BUSINESS DOES: This is a company that sells products for college dorms and apartments.
TARGET MARKET: People who are in college, typically ages from 18-25
PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Sell bedding, furniture, small appliances, décor, kitchen utensils, and anything else that you would need for a dorm room or apartment.
Stands out from competitors by having all the products that people need in one location so they do not have to go to multiple locations and lower prices than a lot of competitors.
HOW WE GOT STARTED: Our company was started by 3 college students who were tired of searching for the perfect room décor for their college dorms and apartment. We want to make it easy for other college students to find what they are looking for and not have to go to multiple stores to find everything they need.

12. Supply Chain Management
VENDOR NAME: SAP WHY WE CHOSE TO USE THIS SYSTEM: Since we have so many products within our company, we thought it was important to have this system. We know that this system will be helpful for our business because we need to be able to organize what suppliers are supplying us each product. Also, we thought it was important that in a supply chain that there is further insight on all products and their importance to the company. This is important to us so we will be aware of what products we should continue selling and which ones we should stop selling.

13. Details of Supply chain management
WHAT DOES IT DO: A supply chain gives company's more insight into what products each supplier are selling, further insight on each of the products and give the products strategic importance to the company through a financial mean.
WHO USES IT: Stakeholders, suppliers, product management
CHARACTERISTICS: approves suppliers and vendors, manages supplier audits, has a product flow, an information flow and a finance flow

14. HOw we are going to use this system in College Cottage
We plan to use SAP Supply Chain Management by linking systems to have a better collaboration and increasing responsiveness with our company and our suppliers. We will be able to change business processes a lot quicker, since our environment will be ever changing with new students every year, without worrying about how that might affect our relationships with suppliers. This will allow us to plan and execute supply chain operations more easily, know when a supply chain change is on it’s way and how to go about the situation, and have feedback that will allow us to continue to adapt and change so we maintain a competitive advantage.

15. Pros of the system Pros from using the system
Has flexibility with a changing environment
Increases efficiency and productivity
Enable better collaboration with our suppliers
Planning becomes easier
Execution and coordination are better
Gives our company a competitive advantage

16. Cons of the System Cons from using this system Down for updates
Acquitted tool chain
Little training
Not user friendly
Slow
Pauses in software
Expensive
Difficult to alter

17. Cost of this system
The Cost of the system we are choosing will vary depending on users and all of the features we think we will need as a company.
SAP Integrated Business Planning starter edition, non-production
Cost per Unit/month
$7, per unit/month
I would say at a minimum, we need each manager to have access to this unit. If we have a in store manager, warehouse manager, shipping manager, online manger, and then a few upper level managers and a CEO, your cost will be $62,040 just to get the software.

18. References
T., A., J., C., P., D., H. Software Advice. Retrieved October 04, 2016, from
Rouse, Margret. Supply Chain Management (SCM). Retrieved October 04, 2016 from
Baltzan, Paige. Business Driven Information Systems. 5th ed., McGrawHill, Print.
SAP Supply Chain Management. (2008). Retrieed October 04, 2016 from ure.pdf