Acme Freight Shipping

Acme Freight Shipping is a fictional shipping and logistics company using the Logistics Wizard application framework to reimagine supply chain optimization system for the 21st century.

The video below demonstates how Acme Freight Shipping used the Logistics Wizard framework, along with IBM API Connect, to deliver an application allowing them to revolutionize the agility of their supply chain.

Acme Freight Shipping Architecture (In Progress)

Areas highlighted in yellow are TBD or currently changing

About the Logistics Wizard Framework

Logistics Wizard is a reimagined supply chain optimization system for the 21st century.

A number of companies use on-premises applications to run their supply chain business processes. Enterprise Resource Planning systems are often one of them and play a critical role in the daily operations.

Logistics Wizard aims to simulate an environment running an ERP system and augments this ERP system with applications to improve the visibility and agility of supply chain managers. In this case, the ERP system is a simulator implementing a very small subset of the functionalities of a real ERP system. The goal is to showcase several common SaaS implementation patterns. Logistics Wizard exhibits hybrid cloud, micro-services, and big data analytics concepts that can be reused when building enterprise-level applications on Bluemix.

Logistics Wizard Architecture

The following projects are leveraged in the overall Logistics Wizard solution:

logistics-wizard-erp - defines the API used by the Logistics Wizard to access data from an ERP system. It also provides a default implementation to be used as a simulator. The simulator is a Node.js application connected to a PostgreSQL database. Through its API, it manages users (supply chain managers and retail store managers), distribution centers, retail stores and shipments.
logistics-wizard-webui - provides a dashboard to view ongoing shipments and alerts. There is no log-in or user credentials per se to use the deployed applications. Instead a unique demo ID is assigned to any new user trying the application. Behind each demo ID, Logistics Wizard creates an isolated environment with a default set of business users, distribution centers, retail stores, shipments. Refer to the walkthrough to get a tour of the capabilities.
logistics-wizard-recommendation - makes shipment recommendations based on weather conditions. It is a set of Bluemix OpenWhisk to retrieve current weather conditions and given a weather event to generate new shipment recommendations. These recommendations could then be turned into real orders.
logistics-wizard-controller - acts as the main controller for interaction between the services. It receives requests from the user interface and routes them to the ERP or the weather recommendation module.