Fast Review and Evolution of Operations Management Software for a Packaging Services Provider

Summary

A global packaging prepress and production services provider wanted to improve and extend its operations management software (OMS), and to reinforce its in-house IT team with deep custom-development expertise. INNERLUXES reviewed the OMS code and architecture in one month and delivered new functionality within four — improving the system's UX and UI, adding a capacity management module, and building robust search.

About the Client

The Client is a US-based provider of all-round packaging prepress and production services — from branding ideation to manufacturing. It operates globally and serves design agencies, printing service providers, and brand owners in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and other industries, continuously advancing its technology stack and adopting new business models to respond flexibly to unique packaging needs and ensure timely, accurate order fulfillment.

Improving and Extending an Operations Management System

The Client wanted to improve the performance, security, UX, and UI of its existing operations management solution and evolve it with new features. It looked for software development talent with deep custom-development expertise to reinforce its in-house IT team, and selected INNERLUXES to review the OMS architecture and code base and help build new functionality. INNERLUXES began with a thorough analysis of the Client's needs and elicited the requirements for the OMS evolution, offering a flexible engagement with on-demand scalability and different pricing models — fixed price for the assessment and Time and Material for the development.

A One-Month Architecture and Code Review

In just a month, the INNERLUXES team fully adjusted to the Client's sprints, analyzed the solution's architecture and its existing Java and React.js code bases, and assessed their impact on security, performance, UX, and UI. The team delivered a detailed report describing the solution's current technical state with expert suggestions for optimizing specific components, and — working closely with the Client's team — modified the React.js code to improve the solution's UX and UI.

A Capacity Management Module and Search in Four Months

The Client continued the cooperation into the OMS evolution stage, where INNERLUXES delivered:

• A capacity management module that streamlines task scheduling for employees in service and production operations and gives end-to-end visibility of labor and material resource utilization.
• Robust search functionality covering new components such as configurable user notifications, pagination, data filtering, and auto-saving of user settings, making OMS database navigation faster for operations staff.

Drawing on years of experience building operations management software, the team handled the most complex, non-trivial tasks and introduced the new modules within four months, with biweekly feature releases.

Key Outcomes for the Client

• Optimized OMS evolution project costs through a flexible approach to cooperation and pricing.
• An expert review of the solution's architecture and code base within a month.
• Streamlined capacity planning and optimized resource utilization from the new module, delivered on time and on budget.
• Higher productivity for the operations management team thanks to the new search module.

Technologies and Tools

React.js, Java.