Invanolabs
Engineering perspective
Logistics & Supply Chain·Architecture & product thinking

One connected view of logistics

Bring dispatch, shipment records, and operational decisions into one clear picture, including when teams work with limited connectivity.

Focus

Supply chain operations

Connect

operational records

Keep

field teams working

Trace

every handover

Chapter 01

The problem space

When shipment information lives across separate tools, operators lose time reconstructing what happened. A useful logistics platform must connect the movement of goods to the records, exceptions, and decisions around it.

Chapter 02

Design priorities

Start by mapping the work of drivers, dispatchers, and operations teams. Identify which actions must work offline, where records change hands, and which events need a shared source of truth. Choose the rollout around operational continuity.

Chapter 03

System architecture

A mobile workflow can capture field events locally and synchronise when connectivity returns. An operations dashboard connects those events to dispatch, documents, and exception handling. An event history makes changes traceable across teams.

Chapter 04

What to measure

Agree the measures before building: time spent finding a shipment, manual reconciliation work, record completeness, and time to resolve an exception. Compare those measures against a baseline as the platform reaches daily use.

Technology stack

The tools we reached for.

  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • BigQuery
  • AWS
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
Custom SoftwareCloud & DevOpsMobile Apps
“One shipment. One clear record. A team that knows what happens next.”

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