Starting in August 2018 through to May 2019, we project managed the Sales Floor Printing (SFP) rollout for Morrisons. Liaising closely with the other third-party suppliers – ARH Electrical Contractors (Power & Data), Retail Services & Bench Mark (Furniture), DeeSet (Merchandising) and Vodafone (network services) the project was delivered on time and in budget.
During the Christmas moratorium POS Networks re-worked the rollout schedule and by doing with the buy-in of the other suppliers we upped the weekly number of stores from circa 12 per week to 16 per week.
The Morrisons Space Planning / Drawing Office supplied the drawing for each store showing where the POS bay was to be located. Using historic documentation, we have on many stores, our store knowledge and LAN Topology drawings we were able to determine which data cabinet would be closest or most suitable for ARH to run the data cabling from. We then produced a As Fitted Drawing for ARH showing where the POS Bay was to be installed, and the location of the data cab in relation to the bay.
The preferred data cabinet information was then advised to Vodafone who in turn would allocate switch ports for the desk top devices. Where there were insufficient LAN ports in the preferred data cabinet, we would either have to arrange for an additional switch to be installed or look at the possibility of using alternative data cabinet if possible (e.g. if the distance between POS Bay and cab was not over 90m or too difficult to cable). This ensured additional switch costs were kept to a minimum for the project sponsor.
For every store completed, a sign-off documents was produced a long with a photographic report showing the finished POS Bay which detailed the hardware patching information, the store employee who signed the job off and accepted the sets of keys for the furniture and Kensington locks, and if there were any issues or exceptions that required further investigation or revisits.
As PC we engaged with pmConnections to develop our Health & Safety policies and Health & Safety Environmental Quality (HSEQ) documentation.