Loggi wants to invest in academic research for the logistics area. For this, the startup announced this Friday (9) a new platform, LoggiBUD, which will serve as a bridge between the market and academia, in order to promote studies focused on optimization and problem solving in the last stage of the supply chain, which is the delivery of products .
The intention of the studies is also to focus on the analysis of urban mobility and help build more effective routes.
These points, according to Gabriela Surita, engineering manager at Loggi, are rarely addressed. “Most benchmarks are small, rarely reaching thousands of customers. Delivery distributions are very artificial and the measure of distance tends to be straight, neglecting the geographic conditions of cities”, he said.
With the project, variables such as geography of the delivery route, total distances and socioeconomic aspects of the region will be considered.
“Around the world, metropolitan areas witness the delivery of hundreds of thousands of packages and mail. With that, we need dynamic and fast solutions to dispatch them as they are received”, observes Fillipe Goulart, software engineer at the startup.
The expert says that deliveries in urban areas are very unevenly distributed. Therefore, it is necessary to study “solutions that are intelligent to avoid long routes and with high costs, both for the company and for the delivery person”, he says. It is in this type of challenge that the company hopes to foster solutions through LoggiBUD.
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Within LoggiBUD it is possible to find public data that add to the query, such as the design on the map of each sector, with data from the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and household income data, with information from the IBGE Census.
The company also foresees the insertion of the average number of deliveries made in the cities where Loggi operates. It is noteworthy that there is no customer data for study.
For the first version, the platform offers information about Belém (PA), Brasília (DF) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ).
Via: Estadão