Description: An existing order processing system handling the distribution over $500 million in produce throughout North America was expanded to accommodate the truck booking and planning process. The system that Artech delivered tracked contracts for all freight carriers and automated the task of shipping multiple freight vendors to reduce freight costs. The project team utilized the full life cycle of the Artech project methodology from foundation to roll-out.

Business Benefits:

• Optimized truck usage, lowering freight costs
• Further reduced freight costs by shopping multiple carriers for each route
• Automated the freight booking and planning process, thereby reducing freight booking errors
• Reduced losses from fragmented logistics processes

Technical Architecture:

• HP Unix server
• Oracle 7 database
• Microsoft Windows NT networking
• ERWIN data modeling
• Oracle packages and procedures
• Power Builder