Distribution & logistics company

Digital Transformation on the Logistics Floor

We observed a logistics operation still recording stock movements by hand, and built a web brochure viewer and a 3D container loading simulator. It did not lead to a follow-on contract, but it mapped out the problem structure of a new domain.

Dec 2024 – Apr 2025

#Web
#3D
#Simulation
#Consulting
#Logistics

The container loading simulator, showing the input screen for loading conditions

Project

Worked with logistics affiliates to observe the floor and gather requirements.
Built a web brochure viewer.
Built a 3D container loading simulator.
Ran roughly five months of testing and iteration.

Challenge

Stock movements were still recorded and managed by hand.
For the size of the business, the process was barely digitised at all.
A printed brochure has to be reprinted whenever information changes, and is hard to produce in several languages.
Container loading depended on the operator’s experience, so space utilisation varied.

Development

Web brochure viewer

Moved a print-first brochure to the web so it opens in a browser with nothing to install.
Zoom, page navigation and the usual reading controls.
Updates take effect immediately, cutting the cost of keeping content current.
Structured so additional language versions are straightforward to produce.

Container loading simulator

Implemented a loading algorithm that accounts for item size and weight.
Upload an order list and have it distributed across multiple containers.
The result is visualised in 3D so it can be checked before loading.
Container size, margins and rotation, lay-flat and pallet options feed into the calculation.