Enhancement of Driver Safety Management
A North American food service distributor with over a century of experience in the food service industry. Originally starting as a butter-and-egg delivery service, the company has grown to become the largest family-owned food service distributor in North America, and one of the largest privately held companies in the United States. Focused on sustainability, integrity, hard work, and a commitment to service, it operates distribution centers and marketplace stores from Michigan to Florida, ensuring convenient locations and delivery options.
Business Challenge
Currently, the transportation unit utilizes an application called ROLODEX which was customized within their existing system to manage the crucial Driver Safety Process. This application tracks driver information and maintains a history of violations and claims associated with each driver. However, the existing system has limitations that hinder the effective administration of a seamless driver safety program.
JRD Solution
This project aims to provide an intranet-based application for the transportation unit to streamline their processes. The new application, called the Driver Safety Application (DSA), will include several value-added features and functionalities that will assist the transportation unit in running smooth operations. Additionally, it will enable a transition away from the dependency on the existing ROLODEX application.
Application features are:
| Driver Search & Initiation | Upload Claims | Add Violations And Track |
| Driver Assessment | Safety Bonus Payout | Safe Miles Award |
| DSA Admin | Canada Requirements | Reporting |
The technology stack included Java/J2EE, Struts2 , Spring , Junit , AngularJS, JQuery,SOAP, REST, JSON, Maven, Jenkins, Weblogic, Oracle.
Key Benefits
JRD Systems solution approach met the Business drivers and objectives of the new DSA application as listed below,
To provide user friendly application developed using cutting edge technology
- Unified view of data
- Ease of use with minimal navigation
To run Automated Driver assessments
- Scheduled process to assess the drivers on a periodic basis with a well-designed rules engine
- Helps the business take risk-mitigation actions
Automated reconciliations of driver data by interacting with 3rd party systems
- Scheduled processes to pull and persist business critical data, for annual
- Options to reconcile data on-demand basis
Intelligent Reports for the business to have a holistic view of data
- Helps derive reports across processes
- Filter the reports as required
- Publish reporting data as required
Automated notifications for approvals
- Notify supervisors and managers to complete action items
- Update the system based upon the outcome as
On-demand dashboard to give a snapshot of the processes
- Provides quick view of the key performance indicators