Improving the delay and service blocking performance of a global trade, import/export, transit and logistics management system & software based on microservices architecture

Abstract

A scalable and microservices architecture-based system & specific software for a complete Global Trade -Import/Export Management (GTM) solution is presented in this paper. It has been developed by means of a modular web application approach, containing functionally different tools such as customer management, business process management, accounting & finance management and marketing & sales management components that all can be adapted to any other business sector. It allows for any user/system-required expansion through a cloud-based and flexible modular structure, proposing a framework for commercial solutions. Compared to its classical monolithicbased counterpart, it well offers above 10 times better delay results and remarkably decreases the system blocking ratio.