The Challenge
Authority Logistics Solutions (Authority), a third-party logistics provider servicing the hospitality, healthcare, store fixtures, and restaurant industries, approached Unidev with the need for a highly specialized and sophisticated enterprise-level application. They believed that, with limited resources and a minimal staff, a web-based application could manage most of the logistics process for a massive construction project, provide real-time data sharing, and allow them to become rapidly competitive in a market which normally requires expensive, proprietary, integrated systems and hundreds of employees.
The tools they envisioned would need to estimate, manage, track, and invoice the purchase, shipment and warehousing of materials, furnishings and equipment for the construction and renovation of hotels, restaurants, retail stores, and hospitals. Authority’s application would have to bridge the gap for users across the world, in four otherwise unrelated industries – corporate management, manufacturing suppliers, freight carriers, and warehousing – by providing them all with access to coordinate on the import of purchase orders, schedule shipments and deliveries, manage storage, track individual supplies, and obtain reports and invoices. Each of these industries follows strict rules and complicated procedures, and Authority would need to accommodate and respect all of those to be a success. They also knew they had to do it right, the first time, to succeed.