Order & Shipment

Context

The way items are tracked and handled in a warehouse, built up over years inside a company, is rarely something a commercial off-the-shelf system can reproduce faithfully, however capable and configurable it is.

This product is a custom-built solution, shaped by working directly with warehouse staff so it would mirror the existing process and support it, rather than requiring the established practice to change around the software.

What I built

A full-stack catalog and order-management platform, built by a small team; the module shown here — order preparation and shipment — is the part I built. A two-column workspace: requested items on the left, the shipment’s structure — its boxes — on the right.

Boxes are assembled by drag and drop; items already packed are marked with a colored indicator.

Once the boxes are packed, the workflow moves on to capturing the shipment’s own details. Saving is split in two: a lightweight checkpoint that captures whatever’s packed so far with no shipping details required, and a Complete step that collects carrier and address information and finalizes the shipment — mirroring how packing actually happens on a warehouse floor, work first, paperwork after.

Disclaimer

The full application was built by a team of developers I was part of; the module shown here is the part I built myself.

The application dated back to 2019. It was brought back up on a modern Docker stack with the help of Claude (Anthropic), via Claude Code. The video was produced on this restored version, using demo catalog data rather than real orders.