Phelps Trucking (2005-2006)
What it Was
Phelps Trucking is a paper goods warehouse and shipping company. I helped build a custom, enterprise application used for order tracking, customer relaitionship management, shipping routing & scheduling, inventory management, and accounts receievable. The web application was used both internally and externally with various tasks, views, and reporting functionalities exposed to different user permission levels.
Barcodes were attached to the paper receipts for workorders. Throughout order lifecycle, an orders status could be updated in the system simply by scanning the affixed barcode.
What I Did
I wrote the frontend code to integrate a barcode scanner into the web site for doing dynamic order lookups without the use of a mouse or keyboard. I also wrote the corresponding backend code which would index data in the system by processing pdf copies of the paper workorders and "reading" the barcodes affixed to them.
I also wrote much of the inventory management, shipping routing, and shipping scheduling logic.
Why You Should Care
It was a highly dynamic, ajax website which began development before the term "ajax" had been coined.
The inclusion of barcode integration provided for a much more efficient user experience and helped automate much of the workflow, increasing productivity at the company. The barcoding system was also pretty cool for its time. Heck, I think it's still pretty cool now.