AumOui Lifestyle Essentials, Inc. aims to enhance its understanding and efficiency of supply chain processes to support business growth and scalability.

The project focuses on analyzing current supply chain operations, identifying bottlenecks, and proposing strategies for improvement.

Learners will apply their classroom knowledge of supply chain management, logistics, and business operations to assess AumOui's existing processes.

The goal is to provide actionable insights that can be implemented to streamline operations and support future scaling efforts.

The project will involve researching industry best practices, evaluating AumOui's current supply chain, and recommending improvements.

This project will help AumOui increase its operational efficiency and prepare for future growth.

AumOui Lifestyle Essentials, Inc. (https://aumoui.com/) is a grass-roots female-owned company, incorporated last year, but doing business for two years. The philosophy of AumOui may be viewed on the about page (https://aumoui.com/pages/about-us). As such, AumOui is currently in the ‘pre-revenue’ stage, and is in need of inventory management implementation in order to proceed with efficiency in operations. The below indicates the issues/problems that need solutions/solving. AumOui is grateful in advance for your assistance, and is fully available for communication and interaction as needed by the team(s).

Four areas of inventory:  

           A)  raw materials

           B)  finished products

           C)  equipment; and

           D)  shipping materials

A. Raw Materials:

Inventory management will help to maximise organisation (available & order status) to understand:

◦                          what materials are on-hand

◦                          amount of each ingredient on-hand

◦                          expiration date of each ingredient

◦                          when to pre-order / re-stock

◦                          list of suppliers (not available); may be listed as “1, 2, 3, etc.”


B. Finished Products & Lifestyle Accessories:

Inventory management will help to maximise organisation to understand:

◦               What products are available for purchase

◦               Number of available units per product

◦               Identifying SKU number (for each product)

◦               Which items are on pre-order (for back-order)

◦               Custom order requests (pending, yet to be delivered)

◦               Custom order requests (history, have been delivered)

◦               Ingredients in each product — to correspond with “A” above

◦               Manage which new products ought to be designed

◦               Keep batch-test LOG of each product (expiry, stability, etc)

◦               Accessories (dish soap trays; soap-mesh, incense, etc.)

◦               Swag (tote bag, t-shirt, etc.)

◦               Some lifestyle clothing items (flip-flops, scarves, etc.)

C. Equipment:

Inventory management will help to maximise organisation (available & order status) to understand:

◦               How many of each type of mixing vessel are on hand

◦               Plastic pouring buckets (various sizes)

◦               Metal mixing buckets (various sizes)

◦               Spatulas (metal, wooden, silicone)

◦               Whisks

◦               Hand-held electric mixers

◦               Scales (various capacities)

◦               List of suppliers (not available); may be listed as “1, 2, 3, etc.”


D. Packaging & Shipping Materials:

Inventory management will help to maximise organisation (available & order status) to understand:

◦               What types of shipping boxes are in-stock

◦               How many boxes are in-stock (shipping vs packaging)

◦               How many shower-steamer tubes are in stock

◦               How many types of candle vessels (variety) there are on-hand

◦               How many deodorant tubes are on-hand

◦               How many bath-bomb shipping boxes are on-hand

◦               How many essential-oil boxes are on-hand

◦               How many soap-nuts bags are on-hand

◦               How many Kraft tissue paper boxes are on-hand

◦               How many pounds of packing-paper is on-hand

◦               How many meters of packaging tape is on-hand

◦               List of suppliers (not available); may be listed as “1, 2, 3, etc.”

My kind appreciation,

Valerie M. Malla

AumOui Lifestyle Essentials, Inc