Abstract

The product transportation is an important procedure in businesses, which consumes costs and times. Effective transportation management can reduce expenses significantly. New technologies such as Global Position System (GPS), maps, notification and network connection can be integrated all together in one small smart phone that provides accessing from anytime and anywhere. In this paper, we propose a smart logistics framework that combines different technologies in order to solve management and tracking issues in a real transportation environment.

Highlights

  • Nowadays a business of drinking water delivery has great potential for life that people would care more about their health

  • The important features of smart logistics framework will be highlighted in order to present the different services of existing applications

  • The web and database servers are deployed on cloud servers from Digital Ocean [11] cloud platform with the cheapest droplet (5 USD/month)

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Summary

Introduction

Nowadays a business of drinking water delivery has great potential for life that people would care more about their health. A company that stays with traditional product delivery will face difficult management. A manager needs to call to delivery staffs to know their locations, how it goes and manually checks the product stock periodically. The system should provide features such as product stock checking and delivery staff route tracking. An effective logistics framework is the solution in order to manage the stock and location tracking for delivery staffs to a manager and show customer destinations to a delivery staff since one of the main costs is the product delivery. The smart logistics framework has been proposed to introduce stock and tracking features by testing with Phuket RO Water company, Co., Ltd. This paper is organized as follows.

Logistics and Milk Run
Milk run
Transportation with cross docking
Vehicle Routing Optimisation
Travelling Salesman Problem Heuristic
Swarm Intelligence
Integer Linear Programming
Architecture
Service delivery mobile application
Web application
Evaluation
Delivery manager mobile application
Conclusion and future works
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