Merit Logistics has been leading in the development of supply chain solutions based on planning strategies to increase productivity for partner companies and support operations to achieve the highest efficiency. After more than 100 years of operation in this field, Merit Logistics has built a strong logistics team, with many achievements proving that we are real experts, always ready to help our partner company improve. Professional activities, profits and maintain high competition between the fierce market today.
What The Client Required
The client wished to keep maintaining, as well as developing and rebuilding a rather cumbersome and out-of-date ERP system, whose source code has been developed through many vendors and for many years (6 years). ERP systems include:
- Develop an online Field Management
- Work and Allocating Management
- Timesheet Management
Our Technologies
Specifically, the Saigon Technology team utilized the following technologies for the project:
- .NET Core
- Java for Android
- React JS
- Grafana Monitor Server
- Load Balancing with Service Discovery: Consul and Fabio
- Angular JS
- .NET Full
- Kotlin
- Auto Update APK
- API Gateway: Starting with Ocelot then build by ourself from scratch
Reporting
Internal daily standup meeting every night at 11PM VN (9 AM in the US).
Weekly summary report via email and efforts report details each task and each team member.
Building A Team
According to the ODC model, the project was divided into 3 main phases. The first phase was to study the current system and the document in as many business rules as possible in the project.
To the second phase, maintaining the existing system and further improving the necessary features were the core operations. Then, starting to make a completely new system (with new technology), more convenient and easier to use with more performance based on the requirements studied from the old system; as well as performing compare testing to ensure the results of steps.
The third phase was to conduct Android AI applications to support checkin / checkout for Merit employees. The App can work with both old and new systems, allowing the use of a PIN or face to check in / checkout.
Moreover, this application was designed to meet a variety of working conditions under different light levels and for all employees. (Regardless of age, skin colour).
Team Members
Saigon Technology provided the resumes of the programmers required by the client. Then a dedicated team of required personnel was identified on the basis of the client's approval. In this team, the Project Manager’s primary responsibility was to effectively communicate with clients on all matters relating to the ODC and assign task priorities, supervise the work and guarantee the quality to ensure the success of the ODC.
Agile Scrum is applied to manage project progress.
Saigon Technology fully applied Agile Scrum to work with Merit
Infrastructure Set-Up
To ensure effective communication and presentation of ideas, we used Skype for conferences to promptly exchange information with the client.
Trello tool was used to support project ’status management.
Google Drive was used as a Document Management System.
Bitbucket was used as a source code version control repository.
Advantages Partnering With Saigon Technology
The work efficiency was significantly improved on the client's side.
The mature model of Abstract Technology's offshore development center guaranteed cost efficiency for the client.
Agile troubleshooting response and quick enhancement from offshore enabled the client to rapidly enhance its technical competence.
More systematically testing ensured the enhanced system ran smoothly to cope with heavy data load.