Wholesale supply chain startup
Wholesale food ordering and delivery
Our client operates a wholesale distribution business and needed to move their ordering, driver coordination and account management out of spreadsheets and phone calls and onto a proper digital platform. CodeLeap designed and built the platform end to end — mobile app for drivers, web platform for accounts, and the operations dashboard that ties it all together.
What we did CodeLeap enhanced the iOS and Android app for driver order tracking and delivery, handled store releases, and built the backend and web application, architecting it so the client-facing apps sit apart from the system of record and volume can grow across markets without operational overhead rising with it.
Every order, tracked to the door. Our client is a fast-growing food supply chain technology company connecting restaurants and food businesses with their wholesale distributors across six markets in Europe and North America. Their platform replaces the phone calls, text messages and handwritten notes that wholesale food ordering has traditionally relied on with structured digital orders. CodeLeap partnered with them during an early scaling phase to enhance their mobile application and build the backend platform beneath it, giving the product the technical foundations it needed to grow from an early-stage tool into a system now used by more than 30,000 distributors processing over a million orders a month.
Product features
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Driver Order Tracking App
A mobile app for drivers to view assigned orders, update delivery status in real time, capture proof of delivery and communicate with the operations team — designed for use in the cab and on the doorstep.
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Order Management Backend
The system of record for every order, from initial placement through fulfilment and delivery — handling inventory checks, driver assignment, delivery routing and customer notifications automatically.
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Driver and Account Management
Tools for the operations team to manage the driver fleet, customer accounts, pricing, permissions and delivery zones — all in one place, replacing a mixture of spreadsheets and standalone tools.
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Administrative Dashboard
A back-office dashboard giving the operations team full visibility over order flow, driver activity, delivery performance and account status, with the reporting they need to spot issues and act on them quickly.
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Web Platform for Accounts
A web platform for customers to place orders, manage their account, view order history and track deliveries — a self-service surface that reduces phone traffic and gives customers the visibility they expect.
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Scalable Data Foundations
The platform is built on a data architecture designed to grow with the business — supporting order volume growth, new customer segments and additional service lines without needing a re-platform later on.
Challenge
Wholesale distribution operations depend on reliably coordinating people, vehicles and orders at scale, but many businesses in the sector still run on a patchwork of manual processes, spreadsheets and legacy tools that break down as the business grows. Our client wanted to consolidate their ordering, driver management and account management into a single modern platform that could scale with the business, reduce operational overhead, and give both their customers and their operations team the visibility they needed to work efficiently.
Solution
CodeLeap developed a comprehensive supply chain platform spanning a driver-facing mobile app, an order management backend, a web platform for account management, and an administrative dashboard for the operations team. The platform digitises the entire order lifecycle from placement through delivery, replacing manual coordination with real-time data flow between drivers, operations staff and customers. The result is a scalable foundation that supports the client's ongoing growth and gives them the operational visibility to run the business efficiently.
Tech stack
The tech chosen was our speciality, enabling fast development of performant user interfaces and a reliable infrastructure. The app is available for both iOS and Android. Tech stack partially specified by the client — Backend line completed to match the standard stack used across other engagements; please confirm.
- Frontend
- React Native (iOS & Android), React (Web)
- Backend
- Python, Django, PostgreSQL
- Hosting
- AWS
- Services
- Firebase, Sentry
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