ParcFinder Proposal
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Project Background & Motivation
Project Background
With the expansion of E-Commerce in Singapore, there is a growing demand for the provision of effective logistical services to facilitate the delivery and receiving of goods and services to consumers. As we analysed the entire customer experience journey in the e-commerce industry, we realised that there is a gap in the service delivery process in the event of a missed delivery. A study by the NUS Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific shows that delivery failure rates hover at more than 15%.
Traditionally, customers who missed a delivery from their logistics providers are redirected either to the post office to collect their parcels. They could also be required to make a call to their logistics providers and rescheduling for a redelivery, and at times required to pay an additional fee for the services. As for the logistics providers, carrying out redeliveries incurs additional operational costs in terms of man-hours and resources.
Project Motivation
Our group aims to address the issue of missed deliveries that occur in the delivery process. In our opinion, the redelivery/missed parcel collection process should be improved such that consumers are not required to go through the additional hassle and incurring additional costs of collecting their missed parcels, and logistics providers can ensure that their customers get their parcels without any additional incurring of operational costs.
Project Objectives
Project Data Sources
Title |
Format |
Website Link / Sources |
Singapore Population Data |
SHP |
data.gov.sg |
Singapore Map Layer (MP14 Subzone/Planned Region) |
SHP |
Open Street Map |
Singapore Post Office |
Unformatted |
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POPStation |
Unformatted |
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EzBuy Collection Stations |
Unformatted |
Project Timeline
Project Milestones
Project Key Challenges
Data Cleaning and Transformation
- Data retrieved not available in KML/SHP/XML format
- Team effort to convert to SHP format
- Documentation to keep track of changes.
- Data (longitude and latitude) not provided
- Write script to transform postal codes
- For postal codes that wasn't able to transform using the script, manually retrieve longitude and latitude from Google Map
Project ParcFinder Members
Aaron Ching Kwun Hin |
Chien Shu Yan |
Lee Zhi Hui |
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