Arrow moves bulk commodities for clients ranging from single farmers to multinational trading firms. They came to us running on spreadsheets, wanting to automate the business through a cloud application with full Xero accounting integration.
After the initial success of the cloud application, Arrow invested in driver apps so their drivers have detailed job information and pickup and delivery access notes wherever they are, including rural areas with patchy reception.
Clients can request a job directly through the system or work with one of Arrow's coordinators to submit new work.
Each job breaks down into smaller loads, enabling multiple pickups and deliveries across different drivers or carriers based on location and availability.
Full accounting integration creates customer invoices and receives carrier invoices from jobs, pushing them straight to Xero.
Detailed information is recorded for every aspect of a job. Arrival and departure locations are displayed clearly on a map, and clients can log in to view the progress of their own jobs at any time.
All jobs are visible to Arrow Logistics staff, so coordinators can see what's coming up and organise available drivers for each job from one screen.
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The mobile app gives Arrow's truck drivers their current job details so they always have the information they need to start a job or finish it off. Driver location monitoring lets coordinators assign work to drivers in the area, improving efficiency and sparing drivers notifications about work they're nowhere near.
The driver dashboard gives each driver a heads-up display of their current jobs, with the next pickup or delivery front and centre.
Drivers complete their admin on the phone, so they never have to touch the web interface.
We implemented the following technology stack, the same proven foundation behind most of the platforms we build and host.
Built in Vue.js as a single page application, for a fast experience without page reloads and the flexibility to evolve as the system grows.
The backend is built in Laravel and MySQL with an API-first interface, so the web and mobile apps share the same endpoints.
Automated testing and deployment let us test new builds and update production quickly, so we can release as often as required.
Amazon's Elastic Container Service runs each service in its own container within a cluster that scales up and down as needed.
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