Development of a Pivotal Component for a Logistics SaaS Platform

Solution:

Custom software development

Business domain:

Shipments of goods

Technology and tools:

Ruby on Rails, AWS, Sidekiq, React

Quincus is an enterprise SaaS platform that resolves daily supply chain challenges throughout the entire network. Quincus SaaS makes shipments faster and more reliable by automating manual tasks and optimizing customers’ operations.

Executive Summary

Powered by advanced technology, data analytics, and the Quincus team’s hands-on experience, Quincus platform modules are configured to suit any business model of their customers and take them away from expensive and slow traditional logistics. 8allocate was contracted to help Quincus create one of their key modules – Pricing and Costing Engine.

Challenge and Objectives

Logistics is not possible without price- and cost-associated matters. Shipment agents need to do a lot of calculations to establish their optimal prices. Logistics stakeholders need to handle all their discounts, manage promotions, deal with upcharges, set and apply commissions, and also perform multiple similar things in their everyday operations. So many different calculation-based actions and most of them are done in different software products. Quincus released their logistics SaaS platform with the aim to bring everything associated with logistics, to include pricing and costing matters, under one umbrella.

The idea that stood behind the SaaS development was to have everything in one place but distributed by dedicated modules, such as Dispatch Management, Order Management, Shipment Processing, and, certainly, Pricing and Costing Engine

The main challenge Quincus faced during creating the last one was to find a professional software development partner with a proven past record of logistics product development, in order to continue developing Quincus platform’s Pricing and Costing Engine.

At the same time, the key objectives of the mentioned module release were to enable Quincus customers to get:

  1. Single place to manage all pricing
  2. Complex price calculations being done easily and without additional resources
  3. Price adjustments based on real-time supply and demand data
  4. Automated pricing and discounts without human factor impact
  5. Reliable tax calculation node
SkyCoin challenge 1 - Development of a Pivotal Component for a Logistics SaaS Platform

How Product/Service Helped

The software development service provided by 8allocate to Quincus helped the latter to obtain top software engineers who not only had the required set of skills but also demonstrated a clear and obvious expertise in logistics and financial software development.

Our software developers worked closely with the Skycoin’s in-house product team and performed the following set of activities:

  1. Created the solution’s interactive components responsible for identifying shipment cost calculation rules
  2. Developed a new microservice-based architecture for the solution
  3. Tested the solution components
  4. Conducted the bug fixing and troubleshooting procedures along the entire development process
  5. Documented all the development steps and achievements

Ultimately, 8allocate enabled Quincus to help their customers automate all pricing and costing operations, adjust them to market situations, and, as a result, maximize their profits at any point of time.

Wrap-Up

Helping innovative companies become even more innovative and efficient is exactly what 8allocate is committed to. That is why we were happy to join this project and help Quincus overcome their challenges and achieve their business goals. At 8allocate, we are all extremely pleased that we have contributed to making sophisticated logistics operations more user-friendly and simple for all stakeholders.

Technologies and integrations

ruby on rails logo 1 - Development of a Pivotal Component for a Logistics SaaS PlatformRuby on Rails

aws l - Development of a Pivotal Component for a Logistics SaaS PlatformAWS

sidekiq logo 1 - Development of a Pivotal Component for a Logistics SaaS PlatformSidekiq

reactjs logo - Development of a Pivotal Component for a Logistics SaaS PlatformReact

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