Logistics Group is a global brand that offers a broad range of equipment from construction, public transportation, marine, trucking, and industrial engines. Logistics is part of and provides logistics services across the entire supply chain. As a part of operations, Logistics operates multiple cargo terminals where auto and truck parts and components arrive via shipping containers. Those containers must be quickly disbursed to a multitude of end destinations. These terminals house many drop areas, each having specific layouts with defined locations and timing sequences for delivery vehicles and forklift operations to disperse goods to their assigned destinations.

In assessing the operational needs of the client, we determined that Logistics needed a real time tool that could give the planner an overall vision of the terminal area, with information about each location, availability and status of the load/unload process, thus making coordination of the operation more efficient and maximizing resources. It also became clear that they also need to be able to communicate individualized in-cab instructions for forklift operators and be able to track that those instructions were being followed. We designed an application to give the user a natural vision of the business by offering a tool that could show an aerial view of the terminal, showing the layout of the different locations, and functionality that could be easily used to assign resources on the spot where the actions should take place.

The product was delivered on time, with high stability, and has been used for years with low maintenance effort, due to the smart and flexible way the solution was designed, allowing the user to define custom layouts for terminal areas, and life cycle for the unload process.