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Headquartered in Denmark, Arla recently built a state-of-the-art milk production facility at Aylesbury, around 30 miles from London. The system Blueberry developed manages all the vehicles coming in and out of the Aylesbury site. This includes booking vehicles in via a portal exposed to Arla’s customers and tracking the location of lorries as they move around the yard, dropping off completed deliveries and becoming assigned to new delivery runs.

Allport Cargo Services is a UK-based freight forwarding and logistics company, operating in over 100 countries.Blueberry built a bespoke web application for Allport which replaced an inefficient manual process with an easy-to-use step-by-step online portal for their customers to book courier services online.As the size and weight of the parcel is entered, the system automatically calculates cost for the preferred delivery option. Behind the scenes, the system integrates with the public APIs of a number of courier services e.g. DHL and GB Mail.

Tarmac is the well-known manufacturer of building materials operating from many locations around the UK. They required an internal system that all of their staff could use, irrespective of their location, to propose business improvement opportunities, with a focus on operational efficiency and cost-savings.For some years, they had been using a spreadsheet-based system, but this was cumbersome as each proposal had to be circulated and signed off by multiple tiers of management. It was also very complicated and time consuming to aggregate the data from the proposals to identify the overall cost savings for management reporting.