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Lessons Learned

You need to determine how many different kinds of things you have to process:
  • Media Type:
    • books
    • DVD's and CD-ROM's (audio and data)
    • audio cassettes
    • VHS cassettes
    • other
  • Item Number: unique vs. non-unique.
  • Item Piece Count: Single-piece items vs. multi-piece items.

There are (5 media types )
times (2 item number types )
times (2 item piece count attributes )
equals (20 possible cases to consider ) !!!

For each case you need to verify you can reliably do:
  • Checkout
  • Checkin
  • Control at gate
  • Sort

All A/V items are intrinsically multi-piece items, because you have a case and the media.

 

 

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