My shipments

Cogoport Desktop app

Overview

International trading is a vast industry that facilitates trades of goods and commodities between domestic and foreign companies. Carrying out the trade at an international level is a complex process that includes multiple stakeholders like Manufacture (Importer / Exporter), Consignee, and Suppliers.

The most critical part of the overall process starts when the shipment has been booked where suppliers play an important role in executing the shipment. In the execution process supply and demand exchange a lot of information that has been done offline till now.

Responsibilities

User Research, Low-fid wireframes, User interface design

Target Group

Small/Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Persona

To my advantage, I already had the personas ready from the research that our designers had done, which I used as a reference point. I picked a few of our transacting customers and interviewed them to understand the post-booking process.

Problem

Once the shipment is booked Importer/Exporter has no visibility of the next step in the process and what is going to happen by whom and when. In the execution process, they deal with multiple suppliers like Transporter, Freight forwarder, Custom house agent, etc.
They have to constantly contact the suppliers to know the status which is done via multiple channels. Because of this, all the information gets lost since there are no logs, shipments get delayed and hence the Importer/Exporter has to bear the losses

Empathy mapping

Frustrations

  • Lack of transparency on information
  • Has no idea what's going on with their shipments
  • Lack of control
  • Poor management
  • Communication via multiple mediums
  • Combining documents

Needs

  • Transparency on information
  • Updates on shipment status
  • Communication tool
  • Control over shipment
  • Document wallet

Key features

Conceptualization

I started creating low-fid concepts on the bases of key features and business requirements.

A new way to accelerate the post-booking process for Importer / Exporters where they can Track, Take actions, Communicate and manage their on-going shipments.

Mock-ups

Developed By Harshad Satra Developed By Shwez Studio