Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Mumbai, Maharashtra,India
Abstract
In the last few years, there have been many types of hyperlocal food delivery start-ups which
have increased the competition in this growing sector. These start-ups are encouraged by the
interest of mainstream industries to invest in this field. They have to be pretty efficient in their
whole process to be in profit or they have a threat of close down due to competition from other
companies or loss of interest from the investor. But the main issue of FD start-ups are real world
issues such as optimum delivery time, no degradation in quality, traffic on routes, etc. We will
solve this issue by making all the variable parameters giving approximately constant outputs. We
will also modify the delivery system so that order from two different houses to two different
restaurants on two different times get delivered by a delivery person instead of two. This will
done by taking into consideration distance between houses, between restaurants, between
house and restaurant, time difference in ordering, type of food, etc. Then it will be extended to
optimize this process for more than two houses or restaurants. The conclusion will be to make
the process of delivery system more efficient and maximizing the profit.
INTRODUCTION
Numerous advancements have been made in the field of web technology and mobile application
development during the past decade. As a result many sophisticated applications and web
services have been created which cater to a wide variety of industries and consumers alike. Food
industry is one of such industries. Whether it be food manufacture and processing to wholesale
and distribution, various aspects of the industry have started integrating such web services in
their processes. We, however, are going to focus on the distribution part, more specifically the
distribution of culinary products, that is, food created by restaurants.
Over the past couple of years, many apps have been created, which are used to take orders from
the customers online and send them to the restaurants to reduce the trouble a customer has to
go through to place an order. Some restaurants have their own apps whereas some rely on a
proxy service or app to take their orders. While all of these apps have their own unique features
and user interface, these apps have the core task to make the process of generating and
dispatching orders as efficient as possible.
These apps are indisputably an improvement over the old method of placing order via calling, as
now the customer can take his time in placing the order and consider his options with ease as
the menu is available online. The customer can also order food to be delivered at a certain time.
However, due to the increasing popularity of such web apps and services, the number of people
using them as also increased strikingly to a large extent. This has led to the emergence of
another problem. While the restaurants now receive orders easily, due to the limited number of
staff (that is the cooks and the delivery people) the orders received are not created and
dispatched in a timely manner. This can lead to numerous mishaps. Examples of such mishaps
are late delivery of the order, misplacement of certain items and sometimes the food itself is
spoilt as it has been in hurry. Such mishaps can cause irreparable damage to the restaurants
reputation and finances.
Over the years, many apps have tried to solve this problem, but none of these apps have
managed to create an effective solution which can solve this problem without causing lose to the
restaurant or increasing the frustration of the customer.
In order to solve this problem efficiently, we plan on using graph theory and certain graph
algorithms such prims and kruskals which are collectively known as greedy algorithms, and later
see the improvements that can be made to these algorithms to create a robust solution that can
be applied to a real world scenario.
Application
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