Design and Implementation of the Freight Forwarding Management Information System Based on ROR
Jiahua Wan, Yiwen Zhang · ICISEM '13 Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information System and Engineering Management · 2013
Industry Freight Forwarding is a industry that the agent accepts the entrustment of the consignee and consignor to transact cargo transportation or other relevant business in the name of principal for service remuneration. Industry Freight Forwarding Involves many aspects with trifles, such as booking, loading, customs clearance, reported insurance, container transport, bining and devanning, the issue of bills of lading and transport fees settlement which all make it not easy to do for human, so it is necessary to design and develop Freight Forwarding Management Information System for improving the freight forwarding service quality, enhancing agent efficiency and reducing operating costs. Ruby on Rails is a new and developing Web application framework constructed on Ruby and it is single and efficient. This paper researchs advanced development mode and method on Ruby on Rails and applys them to Freight Forwarding Management Information System designed System management module, customer management module, warehouse management business management module based on the detailed demand analysis and business functions. As the same time, this paper carrys out a detailed analysis of the function of each module based on the role of system administrators, policymakers, business units, freight forwarding, import and export department, financial management department to accomplish the development of Freight Forwarding Management Information System by using the Ruby on Rails framework finally.