PIROI - Warehouse Management Platform
The Plateforme d'Intervention Régionale de l'Océan Indien (PIROI), linked to the French Red Cross, supplies equipment for disasters but relied on paper records. We built a Warehouse Management System with web and mobile apps to track stock across countries and warehouses in real time, with QR code scanning, dashboards, validation controls and an offline mode that syncs later.
- Client
- PIROI
- When
- Since Jun 2023
- Team
- 2+
- Services
- App development
- Technologies
- Angular, Django, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Typescript/Python, Docker, Ionic
- Industry
- Risk prevention & Disaster management
- SDGs
- 1. No poverty, 2. Zero hunger, 3. Good health and well-being, 10. Reduced inequalities
- Client website
- piroi.croix-rouge.fr
The Plateforme d'Intervention Régionale de l'Océan Indien (PIROI) is a regionally oriented support platform associated with the French Red Cross, with a specific mission to supply equipment for deployment during natural disasters and emergency operations.
Supplied by private donors, the inventory managed by PIROI necessitates a thorough inventorying and traceability process before distribution to various countries for disaster preparedness and response efforts. Historically, these processes predominantly relied on paper-based documentation, presenting a significant risk of data loss and complicating the task of maintaining accurate stock and inventory records for the PIROI team.
To help sort these challenges, Relief Applications developed a web platform called Warehouse Management System (WMS) to be used by warehouse operators and managers alike. The solution entailed the development of both a web and mobile application to allow the French Red Cross staff to manage stock in real-time: keep track of their stock in different countries and warehouses through movement creation, project and user management and creation of visual dashboards. The mobile app also allows users to work more quickly by accessing data through QR codes scan.
The WMS was later extended to other agencies of the French Red Cross such as the Plate-Forme d'Intervention Régionale Amériques Caraibes (PIRAC), the Food Aid Platform (PFA) and the Delegation Territoriale Rhône (DT Rhône), who faced similar problems due to the lack of a simple, quick and efficient tracking platform for their warehouses and items management.
WMS: Warehouse Management System designed for the field
The challenge
- Traceability: Balance between performance & history depth
- Exactitude: To make sure entered data is correct
- Low network capability in certain areas
What we did
- Data links: each stock item is linked to a history entry; history entries are linked
- Validation system: only allowed users can validate a movement or an article sheet
- Offline mode for the mobile app; data is synchronized when good internet connection is available
