Brock & Company, a respected player in the contract food service industry, needed a way to modernize and centralize their financial operations across all locations. With a legacy desktop application in place, they were limited in real-time insights and scalability. Brock approached us with a clear objective: design a responsive, cloud-based platform that could consolidate their core financial workflows and reporting into a single web application—tailored to varying user roles from headquarters to individual units.
Brock’s existing desktop-based infrastructure was struggling to keep up with the dynamic, distributed nature of their business. Headquarters needed comprehensive access to data from all their service units, while individual locations required a more focused, role-based interface. Additionally, their workflows—covering everything from payroll to inventory and weekly reporting—demanded a digital transformation without disrupting existing operations.
System Development
Web
https://rap.brockco.com
We partnered closely with Brock to fully understand their operational landscape, shadowing workflows and gathering input from key stakeholders. Our team delivered a fully customized web application designed to give Brock total control over their financial data in real-time—all accessible through a secure, responsive interface.
Our work began with a comprehensive Functional Specification document—mapping out every detail of the application based on both Brock’s legacy system and new requirements. We captured critical use cases to ensure each function supported real business needs and defined a structured information architecture with: - A detailed sitemap mapping every page and feature - Wireframes for all primary views to visualize functionality
Drawing inspiration from platforms like When I Work, we created a modern, clean, and user-friendly interface designed to scale with Brock’s growing operations. The full-width designs were presented as a single, comprehensive set of comps for easy alignment across teams.
Our team engineered a robust backend using Laravel, paired with a responsive Vue.js frontend, optimized for performance and accessibility. Features included: - Real-time Role-Based Access Control for HQ, admins, and unit-level users - Business & User Management: Easy configuration of multiple businesses, users, and location settings - Daily Operations Tools: Modules for registers, catering sales, purchase orders, inventory, expenses, and payroll - Advanced Reporting: Weekly reviews, monthly and multi-unit labor reports, and full accounting modules - Administration Suite: Unit setup, system maintenance tools, and email notification templates To ensure performance and security, we implemented automated deployments using buddy.works, with backups across both Bitbucket and GitLab for fail-safe versioning.
Brock selected us not just for our technical expertise, but for our ability to deeply understand their business challenges and deliver a solution tailored to their exact workflows. We didn’t offer a pre-packaged system—we co-created a platform that mirrors the intricacies of their operations, while enabling the agility of a modern SaaS product.
With their new cloud-based application, Brock & Company now operates with complete financial visibility across all locations. Their headquarters can run real-time reports, monitor unit-level performance, and manage teams from a single, unified platform—driving better decisions and operational efficiency.
