Logistics Traceability Tool

Case Study by Nukomeet · 01/2019

Logistics Traceability Tool is a mobile application that allows to trace transfers and stocks of concrete elements (as identified by their unique ID) from the moment they leave factories as they are moved between specific sites.

Project background

Consolis is a leading manufacturer of high-performance precast concrete solutions, operating in three sectors: building, infrastructure & rail.

Consolis designed a RFID-based system to simplify the identification of precast elements and enhancing traceability. RFID chips are used at each step of the production process to input in a centralized database all the product data associated with the precast elements, making it easily accessible to collaborators and customers.

Our involvement

The role of Nukomeet was to conduct the conception and building of the Logisistics Traceability Tool from scratch. Through consulting with the client, we defined the needs and established a specifications that were used as a roadmap during development. From the very beginning the application was architected to be very robust and also remarkable simple to use.

The project consists of two applications: a dedicated mobile application and a web application.

The mobile application is used to improve the shipment process and the onside delivery process. It uses Near-field communication (NFC) mechanism to get the RFID data from blocks of concrete. Thanks to digitalization, the shipping and delivery process has been simplified.

The web application is designed to orchestrate the usage of the mobile application on various sites.

The project required integration with the existing infrastracture units such as business intelligence, performance management solutions and various APIs.

Services we have provided

Consulting

Web

API

Mobile

Technologies

We used Flutter to build a native mobile application with Node.js for the API & Vue.js on the frontend.

Flutter allows to build native application on both iOS and Android from a single codebase.

Node.js

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code server-side. Historically, JavaScript was used primarily for client-side scripting, in which scripts written in JavaScript are embedded in a webpage's HTML and run client-side by a JavaScript engine in the user's web browser.

Vue.js features an incrementally adoptable architecture that focuses on declarative rendering and component composition. Advanced features required for complex applications such as routing, state management and build tooling are offered via officially maintained supporting libraries and packages.

Impact

A better process of shipment and delivery of finished products. The result is the increase in the efficiency for Consolis in the field of supply chain management.