“Orderly is more than just a food and beverage technology company. We are a powerful advocate for social and environmental responsibility.”
According to recent UN research, 31 per cent of human-caused GHG emissions originate from the world’s agri-food systems. Sustainability has become one of the principal challenges for the supply chain, along with resilience and visibility.
For companies in the B2C sector, the end-to-end supply chain emissions are much higher than those resulting from their on-premise operations. However, it doesn’t mean businesses should ignore little, locally implemented changes: such changes can lead to significant differences in the long term.
That’s one of the fundamental ideas Orderly communicates and assists with implementing.
Orderly is a supply chain solutions company that advocates for social and environmental responsibility. Their team has been developing digital platforms for the food and beverage industry that generate both sustainability and economic benefits.
Currently, Orderly offers a number of software solutions:
In August 2022, Orderly became a Certified B-Corp – in other words, acknowledged for the high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency. It once again proved that the company intends to make a difference not only in a mission statement but in practice.
“We can create amazing technology that has the potential to change the world, but without also showcasing our ethics and how we work as a business, we would be missing a chance to show people what Orderly really stands for.”
Changes can be complicated to implement for many reasons, in particular, because of the reluctance of staff to embrace new processes and technologies. One way to cope with it is gamification – the digital trend we addressed in the last year’s extensive article and Orderly actively uses in their “Scorecards.”
Scorecards are a solution meant to reduce operational complexity and speed up the adoption of new tools. It shares real-time data on the team’s performance, keeping the numbers and insights up-to-date and nicely visualized.
The purpose of Scorecards is to make the improvements feel less like a burden and more like an interactive, competitive initiative. The highlights of this functionality include the following:
Orderly’s Scorecards are a great tool to start a team’s way toward the sustainability transformation and make it sound simple. Also, compatibility with mobile devices makes it even easier to integrate these small changes into daily operations.
Scorecards are one of the solutions our QA experts have been working with after joining Orderly’s team. Surely, it is not the only part that deserves much attention. We decided to focus on this because it demonstrates how technology can transform complicated processes into engaging experiences.
From the QA perspective, paying particular attention to the app’s mobile version was crucial. Another significant aspect was the focus on the end-user perspective. Orderly works on digitizing the operations that traditionally involve lots of calculations and paperwork. The varying age and digital proficiency of people engaged in a store’s/restaurant’s processes shouldn’t be an obstacle to using Scorecards. It is essential to ensure the functionality is easy to learn, understand, and use.
The first step in software testing is writing the documentation – checklists or test cases. The QA expert assigned to this product chose to prepare detailed test cases, as they work better for complicated products. We can refer Scorecards to one of those since it has a fully custom functionality and isn’t a regular solution we’ve gotten used to testing.
Moreover, teams can use test cases for onboarding new tech specialists in the future or as the background for software requirements specification documents if the team doesn’t have one before the start of the development.
Deciding on the right test coverage is key to ensuring the correct work of a software platform and preventing critical defects from slipping out to production. The following QA activities were selected for Scorecards:
“The QA engineers took a proactive approach to diagnosing many issues before they were released into production. This included issues with the quality of the wording of the machine-generated suggestions, duplication of suggestions, rendering of the interface in older browsers, and improving rendering times.”
Orderly works with internationally recognized food and beverage brands to improve supply chain, store, and sustainability operations.
Our main task is to help businesses achieve their business goals by improving the software they create. Client feedback is what shows whether the QA specialist(s) manage to provide the promised and expected level of services.
We started cooperation with one QA expert joining the project and currently have four people working with Orderly’s solution. The client’s team noted the consistent and continuous improvement in the quality of deliverables by our specialists and the overall increase in product quality. And it is a great pleasure to contribute to the sustainability initiatives that Orderly develops and promotes.
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