SwissPost – Parcel price calculation

2004 – 2013

Why

Swiss PostLogistics & Postmail want to provide their vendors the best pricing assistance when selling services to their customers.

What

To design and develop a price calculation software dedicated to Swiss PostLogistics & Postmail vendors for their daily business.

Requirements

• Proposed pricing must rely on customers’ daily shipment statistics
• Controlling and monitoring of promised shipment quantities

Challenges

• One product, several customers, mixed product backlog, different priorities
• Design of a standard and flexible workflow
• Complexity of software requirements
• Quality of price calculation
• Different algorithms for price calculation

Who

• Swiss PostLogistics & Postmail vendors

My roles

• Technical lead
• Software developer

Organization

• Team of 3 software engineers (me), 1 project manager, 1 business analyst, 1 tester, 1 software architect (me)

Technology

• Java, Spring, Hibernate, Activiti, Drools
• JSP, AngularJS
• SOAP
• Tomcat, Oracle
• Jenkins, SonarQube, Splunk