Employees at the customer's company were keeping track of orders for seeds and plant protection products (PPP) in an Excel file, which external contractors, such as warehouses and transportation companies, had no access to.
This created a major challenge for the customer: the company needed a system that would facilitate interaction among all parties through a web interface and a unified process. ICL Services was brought in to address this issue.
Key Challenges
- Develop system requirements to implement the systems
- Develop a web application to facilitate product supply interactions
- Implement integration with SAP
- Deploy the application in the customer's environment
- Provide support for the application in its operational environment
The ICL Services team, in close collaboration with the customer's business team, developed a concept for an application that maintained process continuity while addressing issues that had been building up when using MS Excel.
Subsequently, the team outlined functional requirements and got them approved. The development team, consisting of 4 developers, an analyst, a tester, and a project manager, used these requirements as a guideline as they worked on the application over the course of 5 months.
During the application's month-long pilot, ICL Services worked with key users to test real-life business scenarios and make sure that the application fully met business needs and addressed the challenges identified.
The application now receiving support from ICL Services. The system is undergoing continuous development, as we are creating new modules and adding enhanced functionalities for existing modules.
The entire project was completed in exactly 6 months, concluding in early 2024.
Products and technologies
- Java
- Jakarta EE
- PostgreSQL
- Angular (Taiga UI)
Results
- The company received a solution that perfectly aligns with its internal processes and streamlines interactions with external contractors.
- The application, once developed, gets continuous updates to keep up with evolving business needs.
- The customer's logistics department employees now operate within a unified information space alongside external warehouses and transportation companies.
- Communication between employees and external contractors has been streamlined.
- A new space has been created for storing documentation related to product shipments.