Cascading Push-Offer Forklift Dispatch
A clickable pitch prototype for a Port Transport Management System. Instead of dropping orders into a pool and hoping a driver picks them up, the system pushes each order to the best-fit forklift, waits 20 seconds, and cascades to the next one, then tracks the job to a PIN-verified handover.
Best viewed on a larger screen. Tap to open the demo ↗ The UI copy is in Bahasa Indonesia, as it would be for yard staff. The stage renders at 1440×810 and scales to fit; most steps can also be triggered by tapping inside the devices.
Moving cargo across a 570,000 m² yard still runs on radio calls and whoever answers first.
Requesters call around to find a free forklift, with no view of which unit is nearby or has the capacity for the load.
In a pool model, an order sits until someone notices it, and heavy or awkward jobs get skipped for easier ones.
Without checkpoints, it’s hard to show where cargo was picked up, where it was dropped, and who received it.
One order, ORD-0142: four pallets of urea, Gudang B to Lapangan C, from request to delivery in eleven minutes.
Origin is auto-detected from the rack QR, the destination snaps to a zone on the yard map, and live capacity shows how many forklifts can carry the load before the order is sent. An optional handover PIN locks delivery to the named receiver.
Open demo at this scene ↗ The dispatcher filters by capacity and STANDBY status, ranks by distance, then pushes the offer to the best unit. When FL-03 doesn’t respond, the offer cascades to FL-07 automatically, and every step is written to the dispatch log.
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The requester follows the forklift on the yard map and sends one-tap quick messages. The driver tablet locks while moving, and QR scans at origin and destination prove the unit was physically there.
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Origin QR, destination QR, and a PIN only the receiver knows. The driver enters it on the tablet, the server verifies, the order flips to DELIVERED with timestamps, and FL-07 returns to STANDBY.
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A side-by-side comparison for decision makers, plus hybrid escalation rules: fall back to the open pool when the cascade is exhausted, alert a supervisor after two minutes, and use parallel offers for priority vessel work.
Open demo at this scene ↗| Aspect | Plan A · Pool | Plan B · Push Offer |
|---|---|---|
| How it works | Order goes to a pool; drivers pick for themselves | System offers sequentially to the best-fit forklift |
| Unit selection | First come, first served; capacity can mismatch | Auto-filter: capacity ≥ load, STANDBY, nearest first |
| Response time | Unbounded; depends on a driver noticing | Bounded: max 20 s per offer, then auto-cascade |
| Safety | Drivers scan a list while moving | One notification, one tap; screen locks while moving |
| Load balancing | “Easy” orders get grabbed, heavy ones linger | Rule-based order; large units held as reserve |
| Accountability | Hard to see who ignored an order | Offer/timeout log + timestamped QR and PIN |
| Build complexity | Low | Medium: needs a dispatch engine and ranking rules |
Yard schematic adapted from the publicly available Paxocean Nanindah yard plan. Orders, fleet, and people are fictional demo data.