Couriers and Cargo services

This project is aimed at developing a data entry system that will enable the image assisted data entry for the cargo for the courier logistics. which is used to simplify the maintenance of the complete details of products, inventory, staff, customers, billing, delivery of goods, etc.

The system should have appropriate login facility with relevant option like new user. The system should allow admin to provide loginid and passwords for the users with role privilege option. For appropriate user login the role privilege (Admin/Supervisor/User) should be selected. The system should provide the Supervisor to set the priorities for the shipment load deliveries, also with services like ADD, UPDATE, VIEW, and DELETE on the shipment load item details. Here the user is categorized as sender (source station) and receiver (destination station). The system should provide the user (sender) to enter all his item details for shipment delivery. The receiver after receiving the shipment delivery will be provided with the options of Viewing load details and also at the same time sends an act to both user (sender) and supervisor.

 Vision

The Purpose of Implementing Country Cargo and Express Couriers is to provide The entire System is based to track the performance of the shipment courier logistics. Based on the priority, the supervisor will set the shipment of various loads.

Scope

The scope of the Country Cargo and Express Couriers is as follows:

This is an online system and is used maintain / control most of the activities happening in Express Couriers. This maintains and controls the cargo details and does online operations and generates various reports. The scanned image if available will be displayed on the left side of screen when the Load ID is entered on the right side.

Overview

 Couriers and Cargo services are available across the country, mostly in urban areas. While large items like furniture, accessories and vehicles are sent by regular land, sea and air letters, documents or smaller parcels are best sent through a courier agency. This may be little expensive but are mostly reliable and safe. Some of the major international courier agencies Worldwide have widespread network all over India and abroad.

·        The entire System is based to track the performance of the shipment courier logistics.

·        Based on the priority, the supervisor will set the shipment of various loads.

·        The major stakeholders in this system are user, Administrator, and supervisor.

Existing System

The Current System is a computerized system but which is maintained at individual databases. The system doesn’t provide complete online services like online reports, and centralized database.

  Limitations in Existing System

1)     This system is maintained at individual database

2)     The User or student cannot easily access the database

3)     In the current system there is database maintenance, therefore accessing single records take more time to verify the data of particular student information.

4)     Student doesn’t have any permission to access their own accounts.

Proposed System

The Proposed system is a browser which is completely related to online system, which provides the centralized database. The web enabled country cargo and express couriers designed to automate the entire operations of a modern cargo and couriers. The system allows multi-divisional, multi-department system handling that includes various activities.

Advantages over Existing System

·        In this system the database is maintained in centralized manner.

·        The system supports direct sending of letters to abroad countries.

·        This is system is very fast because of the centralized database and accessing database will be very easy, when compared to the existing system.

·        To this application we providing new offers and schedules to the customers where the Customer easily retrieve the information of all the courier services.

Authentication

Functional Description

a.      Login to the system through the first page of the application.

b.     Change the password after login to the application.

c.      See his/her details and change it.

d.     Help from the system.

Modules:

Admin users - Has full access to all the modules of this system. Responsible for the accounting of all cash collections and remittances. Prepares and submits also Daily Deposit Reports, can also update, modify and delete courier related information. Admin can check the feedbacks from the customers based on the service provided to the customer and can also generate reports.

Reports:

All frequently used reports at the click of a button

All reports can be previewed, printed, exported to Excel/Word etc., or can be faxed or emailed

Customers – Has restricted access. i.e., users have access to some of the modules only i.e. user can see the price list of all services and can use the services online. They can check the status of the e-Booking office courier service and can update there profile information.

User Interface:

Only registered customers can login to the system and can view there related personal information and can update there profile database, and can send feedback to the admin.

Functions   

ü User Interface

ü Admin Users

ü Customers

ü Reports

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS                              

PROCESSOR    :  Intel 2.0 GHz or above

HARD DISK     :  80 GB

RAM                 :    512 MB RAM.

   SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

OPERATING SYSTEM                     : WINDOWS XP with SP2. 

LANGUAGE (FRONT END)   : JAVA (JDK1.5/1.6)

SERVER                                     : APACHE TOMCAT 5.5/6.0

WEB TECHNOLOGY              : HTML, JAVASCRIPT, CSS.

DATABASE (BACK END)        : ORACLE 10G.

ARCHITECTURE                      : 3-TIER ARCHITECTURE.