Le Hub

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Inspiration

Within fragmented global transportation chains, the ability to detect, communicate and act on exceptions, is crucial.

Currently the lack of timely exchange of information…

...prohibits pro-active correction measures
...leads to unnecessary escalations and process waste
...demands excess buffer capacity and drives up resource consumption
...results in stock-outs, missed sales, production lines standing still
...prevents serious performance management

What it does

The Logistics Event Hub provides a light-weight toolset, for any two or more parties to securely share the specific exception information needed to solve a particular process issue, including

Event API Management, discovery, and subscription management
Transformation services
Sharing policies
Security and traffic traceability

How we built it

Exception Event API – Java Spring
Le Hub – Using webhookie
Transformation feature – Used JSLT
Dashboards to show incoming exceptions – Java Spring

Challenges we ran into

Cutting down the many relevant use cases to something meaningful which can be covered in the hackathon
Combining hackathon schedule with daughters' soccer practice
Not forgetting the chicken burning on the barbie

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Great spirit of collaboration across a very diverse set of expertise and personalities, allowing each of us to play to our strengths
The high engagement and interest from veteran industry practitioners, namely, David, RJ, Hendrik
Being able to tackle a real and persistent industry challenge, without just putting lipstick on a pig (we like pigs as they are)
Le Hub – the best thing since sliced French bread!

What we learned

JSLT enabled transformation feature providing high business value
Event-driven architecture being well aligned with the underlying industry processes
Logistics events providing a low-barrier entry point into ONE Record

What's next for Le Hub

Continue engagement with industry stakeholders to apply the solution in a real-life setting
Continue working in small increments to understand how we can extend the solution (e.g. with respect to sharing policies) without creating unnecessary complexity
Leverage the underlying logic to go beyond exceptions and also support related event-driven workflows
Further investigate how we can use Le Hub to overcome ONE Record implementation challenges