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Sample & Evidence Management System

A bilingual internal sample and evidence management platform built for Unilever’s brand-protection and anti-counterfeiting operations. The system enables teams to catalogue seized product samples, connect them to investigation cases and product classifications, track evidence loans to authorities, laboratories, or legal teams, record return dates and conditions, manage users, search operational records, and generate reports with Excel export.

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Loan Statuses
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Return Conditions
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Product Taxonomy Levels
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Languages Supported
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User Access Levels
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Overview

The challenge

The Sample Management System was developed as a Laravel and Vue.js application designed for brand-protection teams managing seized physical evidence. The platform centralizes sample records, investigation linkage, evidence custody, reporting and administrative oversight within a structured and secure workflow.

Key features

  • Centralized Sample Data module for registering and managing seized product samples
  • Direct association between samples, investigation cases and product classifications
  • Structured product hierarchy for consistent evidence categorization
  • Loan Record module for tracking temporary evidence transfers
  • Recipient management for authorities, laboratories, legal teams and other external parties
  • Loan tracking with loan date, expected return date, actual return date and loan duration
  • Real-time loan status management for active and completed custody transfers
  • Sample return workflow for formally closing evidence loans
  • Return-condition tracking for intact, damaged or lost samples
  • Complete evidence custody history for improved traceability and accountability
  • Advanced search tools for locating sample and loan records efficiently
  • Dedicated reporting for sample and custody-management activities
  • Print support for operational and offline documentation
  • Excel export functionality for sample and loan data
  • Role-based user management separating System Administrators from standard users
  • English and Arabic bilingual support for regional investigation teams
  • Centralized administrative workflow connecting evidence, cases, custody transfers and reporting

What we built

The Sample Management System was developed as a Laravel and Vue.js application designed for brand-protection teams managing seized physical evidence. The platform centralizes sample records, investigation linkage, evidence custody, reporting and administrative oversight within a structured and secure workflow.

Key features

  • Centralized Sample Data module for registering and managing seized product samples
  • Direct association between samples, investigation cases and product classifications
  • Structured product hierarchy for consistent evidence categorization
  • Loan Record module for tracking temporary evidence transfers
  • Recipient management for authorities, laboratories, legal teams and other external parties
  • Loan tracking with loan date, expected return date, actual return date and loan duration
  • Real-time loan status management for active and completed custody transfers
  • Sample return workflow for formally closing evidence loans
  • Return-condition tracking for intact, damaged or lost samples
  • Complete evidence custody history for improved traceability and accountability
  • Advanced search tools for locating sample and loan records efficiently
  • Dedicated reporting for sample and custody-management activities
  • Print support for operational and offline documentation
  • Excel export functionality for sample and loan data
  • Role-based user management separating System Administrators from standard users
  • English and Arabic bilingual support for regional investigation teams
  • Centralized administrative workflow connecting evidence, cases, custody transfers and reporting