3D Cubing For Top E-commerce Retailer

Project Description

About us:

As part of our fullfillment, we process online orders and find the best package (Box/bag) to group items and ship to the customer.

The problem:

The best utilization of capacity of a box to reduce the number of boxes/bags required to cube a customer order and reduce overall shipping cost and enhance customer experience

The solution should contain mock data, test simulation and results analysis

Expertise Required: Expert in Optimization and/or algorithms to design an approach for solving the above problem. If the expert is proficient in Java and code the solution will be an added bonus.

Our current technology Stack: Java 8

Deliverables: Algorithm, Psuedo code, Simulated test and Analysis of the results. Making the algorithm work in Java is an added bonus. The deliverables will be deployed in our infrastructure.

Sample Data: We can provide data in CSV format. Here is what it looks like

• Number of different sized Boxes ..... : N
• Width of nth box ............................. : an
• Depth of nth box ............................. : bn
• Height of nth box ............................ : cn
• Weight of nth box..............................:wn
• Volume of nth box...............................:vn
• Box type (Bag/Box) of nth box..............:tn
• Box Weight of nth box..............................:bwn
• Box Volume of nth box...............................:bvn

 Order Matrix

• Number of Items/Item attributes ..... : M*N (M - Number of Items and N number of attributes)
• N(1) - Unit Weight of the item
• N(2) - Unit Volume of the item
• N(3) - Unit Height of the item
• N(4) - Unit Width of the item
• N(5) - Unit Depth of the item
• N(6) - Items combine indicator (We can group items having the same indicator, different inidicator items cannot be grouped into the same package)
• N(7) - Orientation indicator(Garment items can be folded) Y/N
• N(8) - Comma separated Box Type (Box,Bag....)