Corus Consulting: Logistics Platform

Main article: Logistics information system (classifications and methods)

2023

Presentation of the results of the first stage of development of the digital logistics platform

IT-company Corus Consulting"" on August 31, 2023 presented the results of the first stage logistic of digital platform development. The solution helps to optimize transport the warehouse. logistics The product is created as part of the program. import substitution ON

The platform has a business application that will allow companies to automate warehouses of large and medium-sized businesses from 1000 m ² to 200,000 ^m ² with a high intensity of operations. With the help of the system, the business will be able to accept, place, store, process and ship goods, as well as manage transport in the warehouse. The main feature of the platform is the ability to support non-linear loads: more than 1000 users at a time and at least 100,000 operations per hour.

Until now, 9 out of 10 Russian production companies use foreign WMS. Many of them faced a lack of long-term sustainable support for their products. This became the main driver for the development of a new platform for companies with complex, multimodal logistics. In terms of functionality, the IT solution will meet world standards of systems for logistics management, "said platform functional architect Andrei Chmyrev.

KORUS Consulting specialists have created the first version of the platform, which covers the basic technological processes for managing commodity movement in the warehouse. Data security is ensured by multifactor authentication, delimitation of access rights based on roles, logging of important events and user actions.

The platform is developed on the basis of modern frameworks and open source technologies. This approach will allow customers not to depend on the supplier: in case of code transfer, it is possible to work with different development teams, adapt and expand the product on their own.

KORUS Consulting Group implements the platform with the support of the Russian Information Technology Development Fund - the development team received a grant worth more than 99 million rubles. In August 2023, the first of three stages of the project was completed.

The platform is being created as part of a three-year roadmap. In the near future - workshops and test drives with potential customers. With the release of the commercial version of the product, optimization mechanics for personnel management, billing, robotization will appear. Developers will add inventory, transportation, and order management applications and other solutions to the platform. This will create a solution that fully meets the needs of Russian business: from strategic planning to the fulfillment of operational logistics tasks.

Creation of own logistics platform for automation of supply chain management in retail, distribution, production, e-com and 3PL

On January 13, 2023, KORUS Consulting, one of the experts in building processes in logistics and implementing highly loaded WMS in Russia, announced the development of a digital logistics platform for automating supply chain management in retail, distribution, production, e-commerce and 3PL.

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The solution will be an alternative to imported IT products for large and medium-sized businesses. It will replace entire stacks of Western software and ensure the independence of companies from foreign suppliers. For the implementation of the platform, the company received a grant from the Russian Information Technology Development Fund in the amount of more than 99 million rubles.

The implementation of the digital platform will allow the KORUS Consulting team to apply more than 20 years of experience in working with logistics solutions as an integrator - including Manhattan, SAP EWM, Microsoft Dynamics, LLamasoft. The introduction of high-load systems in companies such as Nokian Tires, Okey, Petrovich, Pyaterochka, Galamart makes it possible to study the needs of the market. The accumulated industry expertise will help create a product that fully meets the needs of Russian business.

In preparing the functional requirements, KORUS Consulting experts analyzed the problems of potential customers - large market players. A number of companies confirmed interest in development at the idea stage. The KORUS Consulting team has already begun to create a technological base for the platform and begins cooperation with the first clients for its experimental operation in the future.

In the context of the departure of international vendors, many Russian companies will not be able to legitimately and safely use Western products. Most of them will require import-substituting software, which must meet high efficiency and performance requirements. It is this solution that the company will be able to offer to the Russian market, noted the functional architect of the platform Andrei Chmyrev, KORUS Consulting Group of Companies.

The long-term experience of the company and the personal experience of each member of the project team in the field of building logistics processes and their automation, including the creation of high-load systems, makes it possible to choose the best practices and use them in the implementation of the platform. The expertise of KORUS Consulting as an integrator will allow you to combine complex IT products into a single system that will close the maximum number of tasks facing the business. In addition, great attention was paid to the issues of performance, auto-testing and the possibility of quick configuration and refinement of the platform, which will allow future customers to quickly and without errors change automated processes in accordance with the law, changes in the external situation and the needs of their own customers. said project director Ivan Fedorov, KORUS Consulting Group of Companies.

The KORUS Consulting team will present the result of the project in February 2024. Also, under the terms of a grant agreement with RFRIT, the IT company will have to register the decision in the register of Russian software by February 2025.