Showground copies of a TMS and a WMS

The problem

You can't demo a live TMS to a prospect without showing someone's real data. You can't try out a change on a live WMS without risking a real warehouse.

Developing against live systems is how Friday-afternoon fires start. Demoing on them is how confidential data ends up on a projector.

But a demo on slides doesn't convince anyone in logistics. People want to click through the screens they'll actually use.

What I built

Offline "showground" clones of a TMS and a WMS.

• A working front end on a mock back end, for each system.
• No live data behind them, and no connection to a live operation.
• Built for sales demos: the screens and flows people need to see, safe to click through.
• Built for development: new work is tried on the showground first.

Because the back end is a mock, I control exactly what's in it: the jobs, the stock, the statuses. A demo can show a problem being solved without waiting for one to happen for real.

How it runs now

Demos can happen on the showground, not on a customer's system. Nobody has to hide a customer's name or hope the right screen opens.

New work is built and tested there first, and only goes near a live system once it behaves. When something breaks on the showground, nothing real stops: no trucks wait, no picks are lost, no customer notices.

It's simple insurance. A safe copy to practise on, so the real operation only ever sees work that has already been tried.