Case study Logistics
App Store for warehouse management
Our client Bitergo offers a collection of business apps to optimize warehouse management, scalable from start-ups to 4PL companies. The client decided to upgrade the front-end of all its applications to the latest version of Angular.
Bitergo's Business App Store is a collection of warehouse management apps, scalable from start-ups to 4PL companies. unicrew updated their front-ends with Angular, working to the style guide Bitergo's own designer supplied, then completed the backend integration over REST. After launch the client reported a rapid increase in requests for test accounts from potential customers.
- Client
- Bitergo
- Focus
- Logistics
- Market
Germany- Engagement
- Front-end rebuild and integration
- Stack
Angular
StorybookREST API
Outcome at a glance
What this project delivered, in numbers.
- Rapid increaseIn test accounts ordered by potential customers after the site launchedAndreas Trautmann, Bitergo, in his Clutch review
Project overview
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed supply chain companies, corporations and SMEs alike, to accelerate their digital transformation. That opened a market for software suppliers focused on logistics and warehousing.
Our client Bitergo offers a collection of business apps to optimize warehouse management, scalable from start-ups to 4PL companies. The warehouse management solution “Warehouse Star” consists of modular, standardized web and Android apps that help businesses digitalize their warehouses within a few days. The apps can also integrate with other systems.
The client wanted to upgrade the front-end of all their applications to the latest version of Angular. The user-friendly interface plays a crucial role in customer satisfaction and is one of the factors that increase the conversion rate. The updated front-end aimed to encourage prospective customers to try the service and then become paying customers.
Challenge
The client’s web designer delivered a style guide and UX concept that had to be reproduced in the front-end development. At that stage, developers had to address challenges arising from the existing platform’s architecture:
- Multiple similar modules and components are reused across different applications.
- The total number of applications is more than 15, so developing each component separately would take a lot of time.
Solution
unicrew developers implemented Angular components strictly according to the requirements. To shorten the timeline and use resources with maximum efficiency, we decided to use Storybook to build universal components that would later be integrated into the new grid of each application.
After completing the front-ends, unicrew’s engineers completed the backend integration via REST, and also supported the client with technical SEO.
Result
unicrew’s team rebuilt the Business App Store’s front-end with Angular. Using Storybook helped the team complete the active backlog quickly and created a reusable component library for future applications. As the client stated, after launching the site there was a rapid increase in requests for test accounts from potential customers.
Warehouse and logistics software is a standing part of our work. See more of it on the logistics and transportation page, and clients’ own accounts of these projects on our client reviews page.
What the client says
After launching the site we saw a rapid increase of test accounts ordered by potential customers. Now the site provides a steady source of sales leads.
05/Technologies
Technologies on this project
Frontend
- Angular
- Storybook
Backend
- REST API
06/Quick answers
The questions behind the project
What did unicrew build for Bitergo's Business App Store?
unicrew rebuilt the front-end of Bitergo's Business App Store, a collection of warehouse management apps scalable from start-ups to 4PL companies, with Angular. Bitergo's own web designer supplied the style guide and UX concept, and unicrew's developers implemented it as Angular components. After the front-ends were done, the engineers completed the backend integration over REST, and also supported the client with technical SEO. After launch, the client reported a rapid increase in requests for test accounts from potential customers.
Why Storybook for a suite of 15+ Angular apps?
Because more than 15 applications reused many of the same modules and components, and building each component separately for each app would have taken a lot of time. unicrew used Storybook to build universal components that were then integrated into the new grid of each application. That helped the team complete the active backlog quickly.
Can you build to our designer's style guide and UX concept?
That is exactly how this project ran. Bitergo's web designer delivered the style guide and UX concept upfront, and unicrew's developers reproduced it in the front-end, implementing Angular components strictly according to those requirements. The design direction was theirs. The implementation was ours. The team followed an agile process, and unicrew also handled the backend integration over REST and supported the client with technical SEO.
Do you work with other logistics and warehousing companies?
Yes. Warehouse and logistics software is a standing part of our work: see our logistics and transportation page for the wider industry and our warehouse management page for the software itself. What carries over from a project like this one is our team's experience: Angular front-ends built to someone else's design system, shared component libraries, and REST integration in a warehousing context.