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SSS built us something that actually works, and we were live in eight weeks.","Operations Manager, Gauteng logistics operator",{"type":12,"value":13,"toc":14},"minimark",[],{"title":15,"searchDepth":16,"depth":16,"links":17},"",2,[],"Logistics & Operations · 2025",{"heading":20,"body":21},"From scattered dispatch to one shared operational view.","The build focused on the real dispatch workflow, not a polished version of it. Driver connectivity, job splitting, billing exports, and day-to-day visibility all had to be solved in the first version.",{"accentColor":7,"label":23,"title":24,"description":25,"linkText":26,"linkTo":27},"The service behind this","Custom fleet and operations management for South African businesses.","Dispatch, job tracking, driver management, and operations visibility — built around how your fleet actually runs.","Fleet management service","\u002Fservices\u002Flogistics-operations","SSS builds custom operations management systems for South African businesses. 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Customer complaints were increasing. The business was turning away work because the operations team couldn't manage the volume they already had.","The MD knew the system was the bottleneck. The question was what to do about it. The off-the-shelf logistics platforms they'd evaluated were either too simple, too expensive, or built for a different kind of operation.",{"pillColor":55,"heading":56,"paragraphs":57},"lime","A dispatch platform built around the real workflow.",[58,59,60],"We started with a scoping session that mapped the actual dispatch process end to end, not the idealised version, but what really happened, including the workarounds. That session surfaced three constraints the client hadn't mentioned: drivers used low-end Android phones with unreliable data, jobs sometimes had to be split between vehicles mid-route, and the billing system was manual and disconnected from operations.","The platform we built addressed all three. A progressive web app for drivers that worked offline and synced when connectivity was available. A dispatch console that let controllers assign, reassign, and split jobs without losing history. An export function that fed directly into the billing process.","We shipped in eight weeks. The first week in production, dispatch time dropped by 60%. The operations manager got her mornings back.",{"pillColor":62,"heading":63,"outcomeParagraph":64,"stats":65},"blue","Same team, more capacity, cleaner visibility.","The business is now managing 40% more jobs per day with the same operations team. The system is under an ongoing SLA with SSS. 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They needed a replacement that could handle concurrent users, stream data with sub-second latency, and support advanced charting without requiring their subscribers to install anything.","The technical constraints were significant: the data source was a legacy feed with a non-standard format, the charting requirements included candlestick charts with custom indicators, and the platform needed to run on the client's existing infrastructure.",{"pillColor":7,"heading":141,"paragraphs":142},"A WebSocket-driven platform with live charting.",[143,144,145],"We built a WebSocket-driven platform with a Node.js backend that connected to the legacy data feed, normalised the format in real time, and broadcast updates to connected clients via a pub\u002Fsub architecture. The frontend was a Vue.js application with a custom charting layer built on top of a lightweight charting library.","The architecture was designed for horizontal scaling. 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