Container Loading and Unloading Processes Integration

Container Loading and Unloading Processes Integration Nowadays, most Ports, Container Parks and Terminals in Portugal are equipped with information systems that allow them to exchange information with their major business partners via electronic means. Unfortunately, in most cases they do not develop this integration and keep working in less efficient and suboptimal ways, such as using paper, fax and others, which do not allow the automation of their business processes. In this work, a solution…

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Electronic Bill of Lading

Electronic Bill of Lading - Work in progress To work with electronic bill of lading (eBL), it is important to have an overview of several concepts. This project describes essential security concepts needed to understand blockchains, explaining this concept along with their characteristics, usual organization and other several concepts that distinguish them. In addition, and with the intention of approaching BL (bill of lading), a brief description of the maritime transport industry is made.  …

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Shipperline Project

Shipperline Project Shipperline was developed in response to the need for shippers to manage the transportation of their goods more efficiently, automatically and in a less expensive way, ensuring a better service to their buyers on their end and controlling their own intermodal process. It will allow chargers to compare quotes, manage appointments and provide information on the current state of charge to their customers (the fundamental 'tracking'). The added value of this tool involves…

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Integration of financial Documents into ERP using QRCode or SAF-T

Integration of financial Documents into ERP using QRCode or SAF-T – Work in progress In this project, it was developed a software for processing and integration of purchase invoices through QRcode being able of reading and processing those documents in a pdf format and also processing and integrating SAF-T file documents into an ERP system, allowing to build an automated process without manual input for payables integration.  An implementation of the two functionalities was carried…

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Imform – Import Management Platform

Imform - Import Management Platform The area of transports and logistics has enormous importance in the world's economy. The complexity's degree of the various processes that involve it is high. Within this processes we can find prospecting, negotiation, transport and documentation, among others. All these processes necessarily involve two entities, which represent the origin and destination of an international transport, in other words, an entity that exports a product and another that imports the same…

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CargoStats – Extraction of Information from Transport Data

CargoStats - Extraction of Information from Transport Data Maritime transport is one of the main means of transport in the world. Import and export data are a reflection of companies, country performance and economic growth. The analysis of this data can have a major impact on several institutions, contributing to their tactical and strategic plan. Despite the robust systems in operation in Portugal, the data resulting from the process of importing and exporting maritime cargo…

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Cargo API

Cargo API This thesis describes the modernization of a legacy system called Transporter, which is a transport and logistics Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implemented by MAEIL. MAEIL intents that Transporter becomes more user friendly and easier to develop for it. In order to achieve this goal, it is needed to create the CargoAPI, an Application Programming Interface (API) to expose services. These services will allow the communication between Transporter’s functions and a web browser user…

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WMS Primavera Eye Peak Dashboard BI in Warehouse Management

WMS Primavera Eye Peak Dashboard BI in Warehouse Management – Work in progress The last decades have shown an increase in companies' demand for knowledge and information, for example for the implementation of successful strategies, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement of processes, product innovation and organizational performance measurement. Thus, organizations have started to invest in tools that allow using existing data in companies and transform them into relevant and useful information for decision-making, allowing the organizations to…

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Broker API

Broker API - Work in progress Nowadays, more and mores applications and systems are being separed from on-premise infrastructures and transitioned and developed for the cloud. This move supports cloud computing and separate and heterogeneous systems that can be acessed online and via API's. The growing presence of applications and systems in the cloud raises new requirements and open doors to new possibilities related to integration. Is is becoming common practice to rely on different…

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Research and Development – Software in Logistics and Transports

Research & Development - Software in Logistics and Transports MAEIL is a certified software company under the Quality and Innovation Integrated Management System, according to international standards NP EN ISO 9001:2015 and NP 4457:2007. Within this scope, below we present several research and development (R&D) projects developed in partnership with various entities. R&D Projects Broker API - Work in progress This project aims to implement a generic integration system that allows users to integrate heterogeneous…

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