Redefining Rail
Transload Efficiency

About The Client

TLD Ramp is a premier provider of rail transloading services with a network spanning the country. Their core business involves transloading goods from railcars for various clients, ensuring efficient and reliable transportation of goods and commodities.

Project Background

Our client, TLD Ramp, operates in the railroad industry, and their primary business involves transloading goods from railcars for their clients. Unfortunately, they have been falsely penalized for damaging products during the transloading process, when in fact the goods were being damaged upon arrival.

TLD Ramp carefully analyzed the situation and has introduced a new paper-based approach to record any damages to the goods before they were transloaded. However, this method was labor-intensive and error-prone. Besides, their new paper-based approach involved:

• The process began when a Billing of Lading (BOL) was issued to an employee to acknowledge the receipt of cargo for shipment.

• Upon the arrival of a railcar at the terminal, employees were required to promptly inspect the goods and manually record any damages on paper, while capturing images of the damages within the railcar.

• The goods inside the railcar were organized in boxes, with each box containing two quantities separated by pallets.

• Employees inspected the relevant box numbers for damages and manually recorded them on a damage report form.

• Damage reports and images captured by employees were then sent to an administrator.

• As for the final step, the admin merged all the damage reports and images sent by employees and forwarded the same to the end client.

Goal

To develop a comprehensive tablet-based application and a web-based admin panel to digitize the damage recording process, the application needed to:

• Allow users to log in and create damage reports with photos.

• Function offline, with data syncing to the server upon reconnection.

• Enhance tracking, accuracy, and productivity.

Project Timeline

The entire project, including change requests, was completed within 3 months.

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