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A2B Directʼs journey
from an MVP to Robust Logistics Marketplace
Client profile
Client profile
Challenge
Capturing Huge Market
with Diverse Shipments Options
High-level
of logistics expertise needed
Big Data Algorithms
Integration Complexity
Engagement
Team Composition
- 8
Backend Developers
Backend Devs
- 2
Quality Assurance Specialists
QA Specialists
- 6
Frontend Developers
Frontend Devs
- 1
UI / UX Designer
UI / UX Designer
- 2
Project Managers
Project Managers
- 1
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
2.5+
Years of engagement
Requirements Gathering
Through interviews with A2B Direct stakeholders and key clients, Monosoft gathered essential needs and feature requests, forming the basis for a comprehensive project requirements document. This laid the foundation for new functionality. Subsequently, this iterative process refined the initial backlog, guiding ongoing development dynamically to deliver notably impactful features.
Components
For Clients
Order creation and management supporting immense variety of shipment options and special requirements. Also, clients could create and manage profiles of their companies for automatic generation of legal documents needed for transportation. Additionally, access to real-time GPS tracking of existing shipments is provided.
For Carriers
Detailed and user-friendly system of order management which includes innovative bidding mechanics, allowing seamless participation in the trading processes. The platform also provides detailed route and location access information after the deal is set. Additionally, real-time monitoring of their vehicle fleet, and efficient management of fuel cards.
Back office
A pricing control and oversight, custom rule management, including tariffs and Service Level Agreements (SLA), tracking and accompaniment for issues resolution, approval and management of transporting organizations on the load board
For Drivers
A mobile application for drivers to manage their trips and receive notifications about new orders. The app also provides access to the navigation system, which helps drivers to find the best routes and avoid traffic jams.
Custom Order Creation System
- Specific transport rules, allowing users to define the type of cargo, bodywork, and any special requirements, ensuring accurate and tailored transportation.
- Real-time address validation, preventing potential errors and ensuring accuracy in shipment details.
- Detailed cargo information, including name, measurement units, quantity and dimensions, facilitating accurate calculations for transportation planning.
- Transparent overview of the total cost of the shipment, considering various factors such as cargo details, volume, and weight.
- Real-time Pricing Estimates.
- Real-time route planning feature, offering users the ability to specify dates, times, and any restrictions related to loading or unloading. Users can visualize route plans through a schematic representation, enhancing clarity in logistics planning.
English Auction
An innovative bidding system allowing users to competitively bid on shipping contracts. This feature fosters cost-effective solutions by encouraging carriers to submit competitive offers.
LTL
Less Than Truckload (LTL) feature optimizes the transportation of smaller shipments, allowing businesses to efficiently utilize truck space. Itʼs a cost-effective solution for shipments that donʼt require a full truck.
Robust Pricing Engine
Vast amounts of informations were gathered and used them in combination with various multipliers to create sophisticated algorithms for pricing based on tariffs, time & season, popularity of the route, and the likelihood of a return route order.
Advanced Cargo Tracking
Integrations with 15+ GPS sensors providers, an online fleet tracking on map system
Legal Document Generation
Automatic creation of various legal documents required for successful logistics, including barcodes and QR encodings.
Cargo Insurance
Option to add customisable insurance coverage for transported goods through third-party insurance providers.
Fleet Management
Monitoring of the fleetʼs condition and timely fixing and maintenance
Custom SKU Directory
Clients have the option to import their unique cargo specifications, which can be easily selected later when creating a shipment request. This streamlines the order creation withautomatically set crucial parameters like weight and volume, making it faster and more accurate.
Key Features
- Specific transport rules, allowing users to define the type of cargo, bodywork, and any special requirements, ensuring accurate and tailored transportation.
- Real-time address validation, preventing potential errors and ensuring accuracy in shipment details.
- Detailed cargo information, including name, measurement units, quantity and dimensions, facilitating accurate calculations for transportation planning.
- Transparent overview of the total cost of the shipment, considering various factors such as cargo details, volume, and weight.
- Real-time Pricing Estimates.
- Real-time route planning feature, offering users the ability to specify dates, times, and any restrictions related to loading or unloading. Users can visualize route plans through a schematic representation, enhancing clarity in logistics planning.
An innovative bidding system allowing users to competitively bid on shipping contracts. This feature fosters cost-effective solutions by encouraging carriers to submit competitive offers.
Less Than Truckload (LTL) feature optimizes the transportation of smaller shipments, allowing businesses to efficiently utilize truck space. Itʼs a cost-effective solution for shipments that donʼt require a full truck.
Vast amounts of informations were gathered and used them in combination with various multipliers to create sophisticated algorithms for pricing based on tariffs, time & season, popularity of the route, and the likelihood of a return route order.
integrations with 15+ GPS sensors providers, an online fleet tracking on map system
Automatic creation of various legal documents required for successful logistics, including barcodes and QR encodings.
Option to add customisable insurance coverage for transported goods through third-party insurance providers.
Monitoring of the fleetʼs condition and timely and maintenance
Clients have the option to import their unique cargo specifications, which can be easily selected later when creating a shipment request. This streamlines the order creation with automatically set crucial parameters like weight volume, making it faster and more accurate.
Integrations
Automated due diligence service
Collects data about business entities and helps to comprehensively assess the partyʼs risks to ensure that only responsible and reputable companies are represented on the platform
Accounting software
Order processing and invoicing, financial data management
Google Maps Routes API
Helps to find the ideal route from A to Z, calculates ETAs and distances for matrices of origin and destination locations.
GPS tracking
Allows constant monitoring of the cargoʼs location during transit, ensuring visibility and transparency in the shipment process.
Architecture Migration
Initial platformʼs architecture was unscalable and due to the rapid increase in the backend load, load boardʼs maintenance was becoming an issue.
Monosoft proposed to transition from monolith to microservice architecture that would allow the segmentation of features on the platform while maintaining high development speed, reducing regression time and minimizing downtime for users.
In addition, services within the system communicate seamlessly through a message bus. To enhance system monitoring, detailed logging and query tracing mechanisms have been implemented. This data is systematically analyzed to identify anomalies, enabling prompt responses to any malfunctions that may arise.
Public REST API
We created a special external REST API to easily connect clients with A2B Direct.
Shippers can create and manage orders with different shipping options and specific requirements and track their statuses in real-time.
For carriers, the API provides a list of orders, bidding functionality, status updates feature and all the necessary information for the successful goods delivery
Results and Impact
* over the timeline of collaboration between A2B.Direct and Monosoft
116645
Shipping orders completed
1,107,764
Tons of reight transported
108M km
Carriers registered
740+
Number of companies that carried out successful shipments
Monosoft has an excellent ability to divide the project into very specific milestones and meet them. Theyʼve understood how to transform our ideas into reality very well.
Peter
Head of Product - @A2B.DirectSuccess stories of our clients
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