An operations dashboard, mocked for a small logistics team

Context

A lot of the web work we get asked about looks like this: a small operations team — logistics, field service, inventory — running on a spreadsheet and three disconnected tools, checking each one separately every morning. We built this concept to show how we'd approach that problem for a new client, end to end.

The approach

We'd start with the same question every time: what's the one number this team needs to see first thing, and what do they do next based on it? For an ops team, that's usually "what's late" and "what needs a person right now." Everything else on the dashboard supports those two questions instead of competing with them.

What we built

A single-page dashboard: a KPI row (active shipments, on-time rate, open alerts, team availability), a weekly delivery chart, and a live shipment table with status colour-coding. Built in Next.js with server components pulling from a Postgres read model, so the page is fast even with a full day of activity loaded. All data shown is illustrative — this was never connected to a real operations system.

What this demonstrates

• Turning several data sources into one page a non-technical team will actually open daily
• A dashboard information hierarchy that answers "what needs attention" before anything else
• The same design-system-in-code approach we use on client web work

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