logistic

In this Project you are asked to design an e-business model in B2C field. Your company is a retailer with a
long history and several physical stores across different regions and cities of Turkey. This retailer is already
in e-business with its web site and mobile application for the last 12 years but it wants to undergo a digital
transformation to adopt state-of-the-art Logistics 4.0 concepts.
The retailer has analyzed the Big Data achieved in the last 12 years and concluded that especially milkbased products constituted the largest portion of its revenue and an improvement in the delivery of this
product group would contribute to its business success.
Your company’s business slogan under its logo is ‘’sustainable customer satisfaction’’ and the value
proposition of to its customers is ‘’In your fridge within an hour!”
Following product items have been assigned to the project team you are leading:
1. Milk
2. Butter
3. Yoghurt
4. Cheese
These products have relatively much shorter ‘’best before’’ dates compared to other food stuff. Therefore
in order to make sure that you acheive
– avoding excess amount of inventory in your warehouse
– 99.8 % fill rate (FR) average in deliveries
targets at the same time, you are asked to design your warehouse and logistics systems. The task list is as
folows :
– Suggest a sensor system to keep stock level under constant check in each warehouse
– Design an information sharing system among warehouses in which they communicate in intranet
system to keep stock level balanced across all depots
– Define Last Mile Delivery problem. Especially for remote spots of the country suggest a Route
Optimisation strategy. Bring alternative solutions (motor courrier delivery, cooperation with a
petrol station, -grab your order- kind of new and innovative models)
– Suggest an efficient tracing / tracking system for your delivery vehicles to keep control over your
delivery operations
– Define Big Data concept. Suggest an approach to analyze the data you collect from purchases on
your web site and mobile applications
– Define Aritificial Intelligence (AI) and suggest an AI system to make accurate forecats
Requirements
You need to return the Projects on ITS Learning system, in Word format. The project should have minimum
750 words.
Certain citations from web are welcome but similarity index should be max. 15%.
You can work on the project either individually, or, in groups of 2,3,4 or max. 5 students.