case study

Supply Chain
Applications

Client
iTradeNetwork Inc.
Completed
Launched & Ongoing
Timeframe for Launch
5 Months
Website
itradenetwork.com

iTradeNetwork is a leading supply chain management provider for the food and beverage industry and offers end-to-end supply chain management solutions designed to improve efficiency and provide greater visibility across the supply chain for Procurement, Traceability, Analytics and their foundational Data Services.

Our Services

Service Development
Web App
iOS App
Android App
Quality Assurance

Brief

iTradeNetwork is a global provider of food supply chain management solutions for the food and beverage industry and serves over 8000 food and beverage companies in the North American region. They are the leaders in perishable supply chain management and have been around for more than 20 years. The iTrade platform provides provides a wide range of solutions that includes Order Management, Traceability, Logistics, Fresh Inspection, Spend Analytics, GDSN Compliance, Branded Procurement, Contract Management, and Blockchain.

Problem Statement

The client wanted to automate existing applications and enhance functionalities in them by making them more structured, responsive and secure along with new features. Their requirements included enhancement of legacy applications and creation of new ones to support with a powerful network of over many food and beverage trading partners, they are leader in perishables supply chain management for 20 years. But as the industry grew and other competitors started automating their products, Itrade wanted to completely  revamp its various legacy applications to make them more efficient, structured and responsive and secure.

The client already had a technology team and wanted to collaborate with a technology partner who could augment their existing teams and help achieve product excellence in a fast-paced environment, assuring the highest quality simultaneously. The team had to be flexible enough and highly available to be able to work with the client’s team that operates in a different time zone.

Approach, Blockchain implementation and Impact

We recommended the complete technology stack that revamps its existing products,  keeping the core legacy itrade application in mind and smooth migration of data from legacy to new applications. Dew Team implemented the solutions after series of discussion with Itrade Engineering Team /Product Managers of various applications for itrade that cater the needs of manufacturers, Growers, Shippers, Retailers and distributors on the Web/Android /IOS platform.Following applications were created as a result. 

Fresh– This application has been designed for inspection of food materials to ensure impeccable quality

Trace– As a part of the product traceability initiative, this application “traces” product origin details, source, supplier, dates and other relevant details. In here, we have also implemented blockchain by decentralizing the chain(Hyperledger has been utilized for the same)

MDS– This is a legacy system that has been enhanced for catalog management better.  

Branded Procurement- iOS version of web application. 

OMS– Then there is the Order Management System which handles PO, shipping, Invoicing, notifications, real time alerts etc.)this system allows interoperability with legacy system. 

Data Management– This is another critical application that provides a monitoring dashboard at distribution level.

Technology Stack

Java and Spring were used for backend development, Swift was used for the development of the iOS app, and Blockchain had been used for further enhancement of the system.
Frontend
  • Angular 8
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Tableau
Backend
  • Java
  • Spring boot
  • Mongo
  • Hyperledger Fabric
“The Dew team that I worked has strong technical skills and works very hard. They communicate well with our onsite Product and Design teams and pay close attention to our feedbacks. The project manager is a great leader of the team and spends a lot of efforts understanding our requirements and making sure the product is built as designed. The technical lead in the team is strong technically and learns new things fast. The other team members (Engineers, QA) are also diligent and quite resourceful in solving problems.”
Yonghui Zhang
VP, Application Development at iTradeNetwork, Inc.

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