IMPROVEMENT OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS OF PERISHABLE GOODS DELIVERY IN THE CITY OF KHARKIV

Abstract

The article analyses the existing methods for building perishable goods delivery technologies and identifies strategies to study the prospects for developing perishable goods delivery systems, which allowed the authors to formulate the research objective in this development. The chosen topic is quite relevant since the formation of rational transport and technological schemes for the delivery of perishable goods allows for increasing the efficiency of resource use, decreasing the cost of their delivery, and reducing the delivery time of perishable goods. One of the ways to improve the efficiency of perishable goods delivery and reduce delivery time is to determine rational distribution routes and rational brands of rolling stock. The study established that foreign scientists have proposed solutions related to the construction of transport and technological schemes for the delivery of perishable goods, taking into account the choice of vehicles and routes for the delivery of goods. Most of these solutions focused on determining the appropriate loading capacity of rolling stock and the optimal delivery routes for perishable goods. A result of the conducted research was a proposed methodology for a comprehensive improvement of the perishable goods delivery process, consisting of determining rational distribution routes for a selected set of vehicles with different loadings. The authors implemented the software for the algorithm for choosing routes for vehicles of various capacities with the definition of the core technical and operational and technical and economic indicators of efficiency of the delivery process of perishable goods. The software implementation of the algorithm for selecting routes for vehicles of different capacities with the determination of the core technical and operational and technical and economic indicators of the efficiency of the delivery process of perishable goods allows one to quickly, in real-time, perform calculations and determine the rational parameters of the transport process and choose the appropriate routes and rolling stock. Keywords: perishable goods, cargo delivery, distribution routes, truck capacity, costs.