One platform to run warehouse and transportation operations across all six HIRA plants.
An interactive walkthrough of the integrated Warehouse & Transportation Management platform Silwatech has designed for HIRA Industries, built around HIRA's own documented processes. It moves through the scope, architecture, integrations, security and delivery plan in the order your engineering team reviews them, with the working product one click away.
A warehouse and transportation platform, engineered for how HIRA actually operates.
HIRA Industries runs one of the region’s largest insulation and MEP manufacturing operations, with brands such as Aerofoam, Aeroduct and Rubtech produced across more than sixteen facilities worldwide. This programme targets the six UAE plants with one integrated Warehouse & Transportation Management platform: the System of Execution for daily operations, built step by step from HIRA's own process documents, while SAP ERP remains the System of Record.
Every stage of the material lifecycle is brought into a single flow: supplier deliveries are received and verified against purchase orders, quality holds are managed, stock is put away by bin, production is issued in full pallets and received back as finished goods, outbound orders are waved, picked, staged and dispatched, and transportation is planned, tracked and settled. Each movement is tracked by QR and LPN so inventory stays accurate and fully traceable across all six sites.
Above all, the platform automates the hand-offs that cost time and money today: receiving opens QC on its own, QC approval releases bins, wave closure posts PGI, dispatch triggers tracking. People decide; the system does the routing, posting and paperwork.
Delivered by Silwatech
Enterprise software engineering for mission-critical operations, with more than two decades of delivery across the UAE, GCC, Europe and Africa.
Three surfaces, one integrated platform.
The platform spans a desktop web portal, a supervisor tablet app and operator RF handhelds, bringing warehouse execution and transportation execution into one operational environment. All three surfaces write to one NestJS backend that stays continuously in step with SAP, so the floor and the ERP never drift apart.
Desktop Web Portal
Managers, planners, controllers and administrators
The control tower of the system of execution: warehouse, inventory, production, outbound and transportation operations, with dashboards, exceptions, reports and administration across every plant.
Supervisor Tablet
Supervisor on the floor
Open receiving against POs, capture vehicle details, print LPN labels, approve variances, assign tasks, verify picking and close waves, exactly as HIRA's documented flows prescribe.
Operator RF Handheld
Operator executing tasks
Simple, scan-driven execution of receiving, putaway, picking and counting tasks, with mandatory scans and confirmation at every step.
One continuous, scan-driven lifecycle from the receiving dock through production and dispatch to delivered, settled freight, and back again for returns.
Twelve roles, each seeing exactly the navigation its responsibilities need, enforced on the server.
Receiving, putaway, inventory, production, picking, packing and dispatch execution.
Operational dashboard, inbound, inventory, production, outbound, exceptions and reports.
Inventory, cycle count, adjustments, reservations and stock audit.
Quality management, hold inventory, rejections and returns.
Production requests, material issue and finished goods.
Shipments, trip planning, vehicle assignment, dispatch and delivery tracking.
Dashboard plus inbound, inventory, production, outbound, transportation and exceptions.
Transportation operations, carrier management, dispatch, GPS tracking and KPIs.
Shipment, load, trip and vehicle planning with reports.
Executive dashboard, business insights, operational analytics and exception centre.
Dashboard, warehouse operations, inventory, transportation, reports and KPIs.
Master data, configuration, users, roles, business rules and integrations.
Fifteen operational domains, one integrated platform.
Scope is organised into the functional domains of the Statement of Work: warehouse execution and transportation execution side by side, with exception management, analytics and administration around them. Select a domain to see what it covers and where it runs.
Master Data
Centralised management of every entity operations depend on, synchronised with SAP and maintained with full CRUD, validation and audit discipline.
HIRA's documented processes, enforced and automated.
Each flow below is taken directly from HIRA's own process documents and built into the platform as a guided sequence. Steps marked AUTO happen without anyone touching the system: receiving opens QC, QC approval releases bins, wave closure posts PGI. The hand-offs that cost time today are eliminated.
RM Receiving
No receipt without an approved PO. Vehicle, pallets and quantities are captured against it, variances cannot slip past tolerance, and the GRN posts itself.
Approved purchase orders replicate automatically with supplier, items, UOM, quantities, QC flags and due dates. Receiving is blocked without one.
PO scanned or selected, vendor auto-populated; vehicle type, number and dock captured to open the receiving transaction.
Pallet type and count entered; the platform generates one LPN per pallet or carton.
LPN labels print to the network printer and are affixed; every movement from here is LPN-controlled.
Per pallet: scan LPN, scan item (validated against the PO), enter actual quantity. UOM and over-receipt tolerance enforced live.
PO versus received compared automatically; short, excess and damaged quantities become exceptions pending supervisor approval.
Accept short/excess, reject damage or hold, with mandatory remarks for the audit trail. Closure is blocked while variance exceeds tolerance.
PO copy, delivery challan and damage report uploaded; receipt closed.
Goods receipt (movement 101) posts from the backend; stock, accounting and vendor liability update in SAP. Inventory lands as Received - Pending QC.
The whole solution, on one diagram.
Three applications, one NestJS backend carrying both warehouse and transportation domains, one PostgreSQL database, and every external system it touches, all hosted on AWS. Select any block to see what it does and the technology behind it.
Select any block on the diagram
Every component above is explained here: what it does, why it is there and the technology behind it. The flow reads left to right: devices, the AWS entry path, the application core, the data it owns, and the systems it integrates with.
Three applications, three architectures.
The portal, the tablet and the handheld are separate products with separate constraints, so each one gets its own architecture rather than a shared summary. Select an application to open its stack.
Web Portal Architecture
The control tower. Nineteen module areas spanning the SOW's full web navigation (warehouse execution, inventory, production, outbound, transportation, exceptions, analytics and administration), server-rendered so heavy management screens open fast.
Every screen area this application exposes, straight from the approved sitemap.
One design system
Web, tablet and handheld are built from the same Figma design system and component vocabulary, so the platform reads as one product.
One API contract
All three clients consume the same versioned REST contract and the same socket events, so behaviour never diverges between screens.
Role-shaped surfaces
Each application exposes only what its roles need, which keeps the operator app simple without limiting the portal.
Modular NestJS services, and a movement that cannot post twice.
Every request follows the same guarded path: gateway, validation, guards, domain rules, then one atomic transaction. Nineteen isolated modules mirror the warehouse and transportation domains, and SAP, GPS and printing stay behind an integration boundary so external systems never leak into business code.
Each operational domain is an isolated NestJS module with its own controllers, services and rules. Modules talk through explicit interfaces, never through shared state, which keeps the system straightforward to test, extend and reason about.
Each external system sits behind its own adapter with its own contract, retry policy and failure handling. SAP posts go out through the outbox with backoff and a dead-letter queue that can be replayed, so a BTP outage delays a sync without ever losing a movement.
Idempotent by design
Every write carries an idempotency key, so a retry after a dropped connection can never post the same movement twice.
Stateless services
No session state lives in the application, so instances scale out horizontally behind the load balancer without sticky routing.
System of Execution, not of record
The platform executes the floor and posts back; SAP remains the System of Record and is never overridden.
Failure is contained
An external system going quiet degrades one adapter, not the warehouse floor. Work queues, surfaces in the exception centre and replays when it returns.
Connected to SAP, without becoming SAP.
SAP remains the System of Record; the platform is the System of Execution. Master data and transactions synchronise through SAP Integration Suite (BTP), live GPS tracking feeds transportation visibility, and labels print directly to network printers. Nothing is re-keyed.
rHIRA Platform
Master data in, transactions back, continuously reconciled
Data exchange is grouped into six areas, covering the full cycle from inbound through transportation and financial posting.
Master Data
Inbound
Production
Inventory
Outbound
Transportation & Finance
Integration assumes HIRA provides SAP Integration Suite (BTP) connectivity and that the required SAP business objects are available through standard APIs. Any custom SAP development is assessed during the integration discovery phase.
One middleware between SAP and the operation.
SAP On-Premise reaches the platform through SAP Integration Suite. SAP keeps ownership of master data and business documents, the platform executes warehouse and transportation work and posts its confirmations back, and CPI carries every message in between, secured, mapped and monitored in one place.
Configured once in the integration layer, then reused by every interface that runs across it.
Assumes HIRA provides SAP Integration Suite (BTP) and SAP Cloud Connector, with the required SAP business objects exposed through standard APIs. Any custom SAP development is assessed during integration discovery.
What crosses the line, in both directions.
SAP pushes the master data and documents the operation needs to act on, including ASNs, reservations and stock transfer orders. The platform sends back what actually happened, through to freight settlement. This is the working scope agreed so far; each interface is confirmed during integration discovery, before any build starts.
Object list provided by HIRA's SAP team and treated as provisional. Interfaces are confirmed, mapped and signed off individually during the integration discovery phase; anything added there is assessed for effort before it enters the build.
Defence in depth, then everything we add on top.
The AWS layers below are the baseline: network isolation, a firewall at the edge and encryption in transit. What matters more for a warehouse record is what sits above them, the access, application and audit controls written specifically against HIRA's roles, plants and workflows.
Designed to stay fast as volume grows.
Performance is engineered across the whole path: rendering and caching at the front, a load balancer and stateless services in the middle, live sockets for instant updates, and continuous monitoring with load testing before go-live.
Fast dashboards
Server-side rendering and edge caching keep management views quick to load.
Responsive APIs
Stateless services and tuned queries keep interactions snappy under load.
Real-time updates
Task assignment and alerts push instantly to tablets and handhelds.
Scales on demand
Horizontal scaling behind the load balancer absorbs peak-hour volume.
The techniques behind the targets.
Targets above are design goals, confirmed and tuned during the performance and load testing phase, which is a formal deliverable of the project.
AWS foundations, deployed to HIRA’s account.
Production runs in HIRA’s own AWS account, so ownership and data residency stay with the business. Silwatech maintains dedicated development and QA environments throughout delivery. Beneath the applications sit the AWS building blocks: EC2 compute for the backend services, a managed PostgreSQL database, and the isolation, security, delivery and recovery services around them.
Development
Active build and continuous integration during each sprint.
QA / Staging
Controlled pre-production testing and release validation.
Production
Multi-AZ, high availability, monitored and backed up.
HIRA provides the production AWS account, the production application and database servers, domain and DNS, SSL certificate, SMTP, and the backup, disaster-recovery and cloud security policies, along with recurring cloud costs. Silwatech provides application deployment, environment configuration and release support.
Planned like Waterfall, delivered like Agile.
The five phases of the Statement of Work (Discovery, Design, Development, Testing & UAT, and Go Live & Hypercare) are planned up front for predictability, with development running in short sprints and QA built into each one. HIRA sees working software early and often. Select a phase to see its deliverables.
Discovery
Workshops with business stakeholders validate workflows, warehouse procedures, transportation processes, SAP touchpoints, master data, roles, reporting and the final implementation scope.
AI accelerates the build. Engineers own the outcome.
Silwatech uses AI across the delivery lifecycle to move faster and hold patterns consistent, with human review, security scanning and IP-safe practices wrapped around everything that ships. It compresses timelines without touching the continuous QA that protects quality.
Scaffolding and boilerplate
NestJS modules, Flutter widgets and Next.js pages generated to the team’s own standards, so engineers start from structure, not a blank file.
Test generation
Draft unit and integration tests produced alongside features, lifting coverage without slowing the sprint.
Code review assist
AI-assisted static analysis flags issues and inconsistencies before they reach human review.
Integration mapping
Faster mapping of SAP business objects and adapter stubs, reviewed and hardened by the integration team.
Documentation
Functional specs, API references and release notes drafted directly from the codebase and kept current.
Requirements to backlog
Discovery notes turned into structured, estimable backlog items for the team to refine.
Shorter timelines, steadier quality.
Routine work is accelerated so senior engineers spend their time on architecture, integration and the edge cases that actually carry risk. Delivery speeds up while QA stays continuous.
Twenty-six weeks, five milestones, one go-live.
A hybrid plan with overlapping workstreams and UAT checkpoints along the way. Fifteen specialists run discovery and design, WMS and TMS web development, tablet and RF applications, SAP integration, hardware installation, QA and deployment in parallel wherever it is safe to do so. Hover any bar for its timing.
A dedicated fifteen-person team across engineering, design, QA and DevOps.
Schedule and milestone dates are indicative and refined during the Discovery phase.
Where the platform goes once the data is flowing.
The SOW's AI-assisted capabilities, sequenced. Once the core is live and SAP-synced data is stable, the same platform becomes the foundation for AI that removes manual decisions on the floor, and for scaling to additional warehouses, plants, companies and distribution centres. Visionary and explicitly outside the current project scope.
An execution platform now, an intelligent one next.
The architecture, data model and integrations in this walkthrough are built so these capabilities, along with new warehouses, plants and companies, can be added without re-platforming.
See the working product, not just diagrams.
The interactive demo puts the web dashboard, the platform's control tower, in front of the team, driven by realistic warehouse data. Every documented flow can be walked end to end: receiving through QC, putaway, production, finished goods, outbound waves, transportation and cycle count, with role-based navigation throughout.
Launch the interactive demo
Opens the clickable prototype in a new tab so the team can move through the real screens at their own pace during the meeting.