Portfolio : Case Study 3

Shipping Management System

Shipping Management System

OVERVIEW & BUSINESS NEEDS

The company offers scalable services — from development to designing — to help end-users manage functional areas of the Dry Bulk Shipping Industry.

The Client’s core requirement was to develop an integrated system for maritime companies. The following specific objectives were also identified:

  • Overcoming redundant industry processes
  • Create a centralized update mechanism
  • Fulfill requirements of predefined reports and other MIS Reports
  • Addressing discrepancies in data entries
  • Integration & enhancement of existing workflow processes CHALLENGES
  • Multi-time zone management and automated report delivery
  • Designing and implementing the 5-tier Security Matrix for secured transactions
  • Formulating arrival schedules to paramount accuracy
  • Automated approval/rejection within workflow for various entities SOLUTION
  • Developed an integrated system for Dry Bulk Shipping Management
  • Created the functionality for scheduling the company’s ships and tracking their real-time locations all over the globe
  • Developed a flexible, reliable, scalable, and modular design, consisting of a suite of interconnected modules & services [SaaS on demand]
  • Provided end-to-end functionality to enable 24x7 reliable communications between discrete operations in the global shipping industry
  • The integrated system consisted of modules that were highly effective and integrated with supply and distributed chain management system for dry bulk sea borne transportation
  • Implemented a comprehensive architectural design for an offline and real-time environment
  • The diversified portfolio of shipping services developed consisted of features like 5 Tier Security, Data Sharing capability, Cargoes, Charter Parties – COA, Fixture Notes, Nominations, PreArrival Schedules, Production Data, Port Details, Estimators, Audit, and Market Information, etc.