Online Bill of Lading Printing Solution for Efficient Logistics Operations

Online BL Printing Portal

An online solution for customers to print Bill of Lading

CLIENT

Unifeeder

INDUSTRY

Logistics

CORE TECHNOLOGIES

Angular

SpringBoot

Oracle

Apache Tomcat

AWS

PrimeNG

Electron js

Express js

BootStrap

Chart js

CSS

SCSS

Node

NPM

Overview

The online BL printing application provides a hassle-free yet secure way of printing the most important document in the logistics industry - the Bill of Lading. With a classic and informative admin section, the control lies in our clients hands as to which of his customers they want to provide this unique feature of printing the BL document online.

Problem statement

To print this important document, a customer must visit their logistics partners office, which can be very time-consuming. With our client facing the same situation, they wanted to make this task easy for their customers who can print the Bill of Lading online without having the need to visit the partner office in person.

THE ASK

An online solution for customers to print Bill of Lading

Our client wanted a solution where the control remains to them; they must be able to decide upon the customers who would get access to online BL printing.

The application was supposed to be a desktop-based installable application to allow printing

The application was supposed to track the installed printers and prevent the saving of BL as a PDF

The application was also supposed to have a feature where-in, the end-customer must be able to re-print in the event of paper stuck or some other issue; however after the approval of the application admin

The versioning of the application was important so that the user is not allowed to use the old version of the application if the new version was released.

An online solution for customers to print Bill of Lading

As the CIO of the company, this was the first project that I gave to Infomover Technologies. They did a wonderful job and then, there was no looking back. We have been hiring them for various projects since then.

THE WORK

Initiate BL Printing

On initiating the BL printing, the platform sends OTP via email / SMS. Platform validates the OTP and allows the customer to proceed with printing. In case the printer misbehaves or for any reason, the printing does not complete, the customer can request a re-print. The customer can re-print only when approved by the platform admin.

A simple login screen that helps the user to log in to the system. The user role is automatically identified basis of which the options for various features are presented.

Admin Dashboard

This is the admin (platform admin) dashboard that provides the list of customers that are onboarded and also the option to add new customers. Moreover, the dashboard provides the statistics of the BLs that are printed and the re-print requests received (if any). The last BL printed is also shown.

Customer Onboarding

Multiple users / members of the existing customer can be provided rights to print the BL. The 2-factor authentication can be enabled either via email or SMS

Report Generation

A special report is available for the administrator to view the list of BLs printed along with options to filter by customer and period.

Customer Dashboard

This is the dashboard of the customer who has been granted access to print the BL(s) online. It provides the list of all the bookings which are ready for BL printing. The user can also preview the Draft BL.

Draft BL View

This is the preview of the draft BL

Initiate BL Printing

A simple login screen that helps the user to log in to the system. The user role is automatically identified basis of which the options for various features are presented.

THE WORK

Initiate BL Printing

A simple login screen that helps the user to log in to the system. The user role is automatically identified basis of which the options for various features are presented.

Admin Dashboard

Customer Onboarding

Multiple users / members of the existing customer can be provided rights to print the BL. The 2-factor authentication can be enabled either via email or SMS

Report Generation

A special report is available for the administrator to view the list of BLs printed along with options to filter by customer and period.

Customer Dashboard

Draft BL View

This is the preview of the draft BL

Initiate BL Printing

A simple login screen that helps the user to log in to the system. The user role is automatically identified basis of which the options for various features are presented.

The Solution

We used Electron JS as the framework in order to build the desktop application

Used Node JS advanced features in order to access the local resources of the machine that hosts the application

We made the application available for download based on the authorization from the clients admin

We built a dashboard for the admin that provides statistics like end-customers onboarded, the number of BLs printed, failed prints and option to allow re-print.

We integrated the application into their ERP in order to retrieve the BL PDF

The Draft BL viewer was also provided for the preview of the draft bill of lading.

We implemented 2-factor authentication via email-based OTP in order to make sure that only authorized users are allowed to take the print of the BL

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