Let’s say that your business has one or more warehouses, manufacturing facilities or integrated intralogistics systems where you are in a constant process of improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing customer satisfaction. In addition, you are actively looking for automation solutions in intralogistics, to face challenges like labor shortage and higher demand. Developing a sustainable and robust software comes as an essential part of your solution. But if you struggle with making a decision about the technology to adopt, read further.
Java as a top choice for intralogistics
The essential role of intralogistics in the modern supply chain management determines companies to turn to reliable technologies when it comes to innovation. For the software development component, Java is the most popular choice among players in the field.
Known for its flexibility, scalability, and reliability, Java is used in the intralogistics industry to build systems, to keep the pace with innovation, to automate, to fasten processes and to reduce costs. There are many factors behind this strategic decision, and in this article, we are going to explore some of them.
- Real-time technology
Through its prompt responsiveness, Java offers systems that run in real-time and have a high performance and throughput. This makes it a reliable choice for intralogistics, where large amount of data is processed in real-time, and all the environments must be consistent, predictable, and synchronize without delay.
- Integration with existing systems
Java’s rich ecosystem comes with a wide set of in-built functions and libraries that speed up the development of complex application, and their integration with a wide variety of existing systems (databases, web services, various applications etc.). This feature facilitates the development of complete solutions in intralogistics, where the need to integrate software solutions with a large variety of other systems is constant.
- ‘Write Once, Run Anywhere’ or Platform Independence
Java is a platform-independent technology, meaning that its code can be run on multiple devices and platforms like Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android with any rewriting required. Behind Java’s flexibility stays Java Virtual Machine (JVM), an intermediary between the code and the underlying hardware or operating system, that makes this programming language the perfect choice for developing intralogistics systems. Companies that use Java to build their intralogistics applications can rely on their compatibility with desktop computers, mobile devices, embedded systems, and other devices.
- Security and robustness included
Java was designed as a robust and reliable technology. Its secure environment offers a strong protection against malicious attacks and provides a trustworthy solution for intralogistics. Java backups intralogistics systems in handling large volumes of data, facilitating round-the-clock operations, and protecting assets.
- Scalability
Build to handle large and complex applications, Java is a scalable technology. It provides the flexibility and performance needed to respond to the fast-changing demands. In intralogistics, where companies are often looking to scale systems, Java supports their efforts to face the growing business, increased market demands, and to meet customers’ expectations.
- Large developer community
Java is one of the most used technologies in the world. Its large and active developers’ community opens available talents to companies and provides resources to build complex intralogistics systems. Through online forums, documentation, open-source libraries and tools, Java developers can find support to quickly build solutions, accelerate development, and reduce costs.
Efficient intralogistics with Java: a success story
Using Java to develop solutions for the intralogistics systems is part of our best practices, as well. For example, a Dutch e-commerce that sells a large variety of consumer electronics started a collaboration with our software development company in 2021. Their need was to build an integrated system to transport, sort, and store the returned goods to their warehouse in the Netherlands.
The manual processes used at that moment were reaching their maximum daily capacity and the department was losing efficiency.
The solution build by our dedicated team was mainly based on Java, its frameworks (Spring, Hibernate), and API (Java Message Service) for:
- Java’s real-time responsiveness, security, and easy integration with other systems essential for the development of efficient picking and sorting systems.
- Java’s scalability required to support the transition from a temporary storage of products within the system to a long-term one.
- The large developer community with available Java Development Teams and ready-made solutions to accelerate development.
Are you also looking to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and/or enhance customer satisfaction in your warehouse? Let’s talk about your needs and develop the solution together.