Analyzing Industry Supply Chain Services

Our start up company is creating opportunities to make the international shipping process faster and easier. We believe we know a lot about our consumers and target consumer base, but we need to dig deeper and understand the day to day operational needs of the people on the ground, how our product can help them and how competitive we are in the global shipping industry.We would like to collaborate with students to build a detailed set of analytics and to assist in our planning processes.Current State AnalysisElicitation of requirements through such techniques as benchmarking and market analysis, document analysis, interviews, and surveys.Requirements documents through such techniques as text, mockups, and process diagrams.Risk LogBonus steps in the process would also include:Recommending strategies to market our product.Recommending strategies to best position our company.

Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data Model Development Project

Our company is on the cusp of creating a new product, we understand our users and what they need, we have a vision for our product, what we are missing in order to be able to move toward development is are the models required to guide the developers.We are looking for a group who is interested in learning what it takes to move a start up forward, and, who is interested in working with us to develop the information architecture and data model artifacts for the product. What are our business processes?How do we structure our business information?What kinds of information do we use within these processes?What kinds of information do we store?Where does it come from? Where does it go? 

Analyzing Industry Competitor Data

Our startup company is creating opportunities for small enterprises in our industry to level up through team efficiency and elimination of quote errors. We believe we know a lot about our consumers and target consumer base, but we need to look beyond the buyer and examine our industry.We would like to collaborate with students to complete a detailed competitor analysis and help us position ourselves in the market.This will involve several different steps for the students, including:Familiarizing themselves with our products, target market, and industry.Identifying competitors, analyzing their product offerings, pricing strategies, distribution channels, marketing tactics, and customer engagement approaches.Bonus steps in the process would also include:Recommending strategies to best position our company.

Pricing Model Development

We would like you to develop and test a series of pricing model options and present an effective data-based pricing model recommendation for our organization. You should conduct primary and secondary research to confirm your recommendation is validated by our target customer in this market. To accomplish this, we believe you will need to conduct the following research:Our organization’s costs, target customer, revenue targets, and business goals.The competitive landscape of this new market.Organizing focus groups, surveys, and/or customer discovery interviews to get input and feedback on potential pricing models.Using targeted online ads to A/B test landing pages with different price models.We want to enter this new market with a proven pricing model so that we can have a successful launch.