Client : A leading poultry, meat and fish products manufacturing firm in the Caribbean

POSTS was developed for the distribution division of one of the largest poultry, meat and fish products manufacturing and distribution firms in the Caribbean islands. The division’s truckers deliver products every day to customers based on orders downloaded in their mobile PC at the end of the previous day. Invoice is also generated at the Point-of-Sale using a portable thermal printer and given to the customer. Customer payment data based on various authorized payment modes allowed to the customer is also captured at the Point-of-Sale, followed by reconciliation of collections at the warehouse, where the lodgment of daily transaction data is carried out by the truckers at the end of the day.

Due to the obsolescence of the hardware and increasing lack of support for the environment in which the application software was built, the client decided to migrate the point of sale application to the latest hardware and software technologies, besides incorporating improved features such as bar-code scanning etc.

POSTS was developed offshore by VAST, at its development center in Chennai, India. The target technology environment for POSTS was the PalmOS based Symbol SPT 1800 device, which is a PDA cum barcode scanner and communicator.

VAST designed and developed the new front end Point-of-Sale software running on the PDA as well as the conduit and bridges for transferring data to and from the backend database to the PDA. The entire design, development effort was carried out offshore, with a short 10 days’ implementation and onsite training phase at the customer’s location in the Caribbean.

Total Project Effort 310 Person Days            Team Size 5
Technical Environment Palm OS, Mobile VB, Visual Basic, MS-Access, Symbol SPT 1800 with scanner, O'neil Printer

Location Offshore - Chennai, Onsite - Jamaica