Design Of Third Party Logistics System Platform Based On .NET

Management information system plays an important role in modern enterprise management for logistics companies to improve efficiency. However, logistics business grows much faster than what we imagine. More logistics services are provided; more logistics business subsystems are introduced. The isolation of business subsystems has become a great restriction for logistics business enterprise. What they really need is a well-designed logistics business management information system platform to make all the subsystems work together.This paper presents an approach to design and implement a third party logistics management information system platform based on the .NET framework and Web Services. This platform integrates multiple logistics business subsystems and makes them work together. The platform also has high extensibility and scalability. To make all these business subsystems work together, we analyzed data interfaces for these logistics business subsystems and defined the system data exchange formats using XML language. Also we implemented mechanism of data exchange between subsystems. Since it is very inconvenient for customer to settle each transaction in each business subsystem, we proposed settlement center which provided customers a one-stop settlement service to solve this problem. Managers needed to know which business growed faster compare with other businesses and we provided report center to realize business-to-business comparison. With EDI center, this platform has the ability to talk to external systems using international electronics data interchange standard format. We also provided customizable user menu and offline dropdown list user control to make the integrated system very easy to use.