Reducing management time by 10,000 hours

Track and manage logistics with a robust platform

Role

UI/UX Designer
Information Architecture
Prototyping and User Testing
User and Stakeholder Research

Team

Product Manager
3x Engineers

Key Achievements

Increased workflow efficiency by 80% by automating manual and redundant tasks (calling, record keeping, etc.)

Overview

Making logistics management easier than this...

Truck It In, one of the nation's largest logistics management startups, aimed to provide supply chain managers of small to medium-sized businesses with a more efficient experience for managing their shipments.

As the lead UX designer, my objective was to understand the national logistics ecosystem and the needs of shippers, and to propose a dashboard that would enable them to create, edit, manage, and analyze shipments effectively.

The Problem

How might help shipment managers manage shipment deliveries more efficiently and effectively?

Fragmented manual shipment and driver tracking

Shipment managers were using multiple methods to simply track shipments resulting in thousands of hours lost.

Solution: Design a dashboard that enables managers to track shipment status, driver details, location, and documentation.

Underutilizing data to inform important decisions

Shipment managers relied on effective daily and weekly data analysis to manage their targets.

Solution: Utilize data and information regarding shipment and warehouse that can help managers make important decisions.

The Solution

A B2B SaaS platform for shippers to efficiently manage bookings through an intuitive web application.

A centralized platform where managers can efficiently create shipments, monitor active deliveries, and manage both warehouse and payment information. This comprehensive solution has significantly reduced operational hours and costs, thereby enhancing management efficiency and profitability for small to medium-sized enterprises.

Managing all aspects of the shipment in one place

The application allows the shipper to manage all aspects of a shipment needed to stay on top of the deliveries including status, documentation, and alerts.

Addressing issues more precisely and timely

The application notifies users in case of the happy flow is disturbed, which it often in such complex ecosystems. Even knowing when and where the disruption occurred was a big win.

Allowing shippers to customize their dashboard with KPI's they prioritize

As not all shippers are equal and different companies prioritize different KPI's to track their goals and progress, I designed a dashboard that enabled users to redesign their dashboard according to their needs.

Testing dashboard layouts for usability

Before: Shipment with modal detailed info and information center in tabs

In the first version, we tested a flow which allows managers to see details of a shipment in a modal window once the shipment was clicked. While this saved a lot of space and an extra page, user's were not able to access important information directly.

After: Separate shipment detail page to access information easily

Through user testing it was revealed users preferred this method better as it gave them an overall view of the shipment quickly. I also redesigned the shipment information card to allow for user to quickly grasp information about their shipments' status.

Impact

Through our product, supply chain managers at several SMBs were able to get control back and drive growth in their organizations by reducing cost and time it took to track shippers.

80%

Improved workflow efficiency by 80% by automating redundant tasks.

99%

Reduced error rates by 99% with automated data integrations.

95%

Scored 95% on System Usability Score, highest rating in the region.