Logistics customer portal for Wayne Transports

We needed to ensure that the customer portal would be a single point of entry for Wayne Transports’ customers and suppliers, where they could overview and manage freight orders as well as download relevant transportation documents. The portal also had to be tailored to sales representatives, transportation managers, and billing department representatives.

Yalantis’ project management strategy to meet the client’s requirements

To deliver the product on time and on budget, we went through the following stages:

• Discovery. We identified Wayne Transports’ target audience, analyzed key competitors, and delineated business objectives to develop an accurate project management plan.
• Development. We developed, delivered, and demonstrated a software solution to the client following an iterative approach.
• Stabilization. This stage included regression testing to check the customer portal in full, detecting and fixing remaining issues.
• User acceptance testing. Wayne Transports’ end users validated the customer portal and provided feedback. Based on it, we made necessary adjustments.
• Go-live. The client signed off and we released the final product to the production environment.

Ensuring a streamlined UI/UX design

From the login screen to logout, we emphasized clear navigation with a minimalist layout and a standout menu bar. Our design team also ensured the platform’s responsiveness so that pages and all customer portal components were aligned and automatically resized for different screen resolutions.

Achieving software efficiency with relevant functionality

To provide Wayne Transports with a convenient and easy-to-use customer portal, we integrated the following features:

• Role-based restrictions. Individual users can view and manage only the data available to them, such as transportation documents and invoices for their orders only. The customer portal includes five user roles:

1. Admin
2. Billing
3. Sales
4. Customer
5. Supplier

• User management. System admins can:

1. keep track of users’ contact information
2. control users’ level of access to platform resources
3. directly communicate with users
4. monitor and log users’ activities around the platform

• Load management dashboard. This dashboard provides an overview of freight orders, including:

1. status
2. customer’s company name
3. departure time and delivery time
4. attached documents

• Notifications and alerts. The platform allows for sending notifications to all users and groups of users to share any critical information.
• Integration with the company’s logistics systems. It’s possible to exchange data between the customer portal and the company’s logistics systems to enable a seamless workflow.

Implementing security best practices

We used Microsoft Azure to implement the following security controls:

• Encryption to ensure a high level of data security
• Daily data backups for unhindered recovery in case of incidents
• A stable and reliable incident response process
• App snapshotting to provide reliable web application backups
• Two-factor authentication and role-based access control to prevent unauthorized access
• Additional access protection with a web application firewall
• Security headers to ensure platform security in the browser
• Efficient monitoring of software vulnerabilities