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| − | As final year students graduating soon from university, we | + | <p>As final year students graduating soon from university, we sought to find a project that would suit our future directions in career path. All of us in the team are keen to take on a career related to either e-Commerce or logistics. Hence, we believe that the project we have chosen would familiarise us with the workings of logistics and distribution and aid us greatly in managing e-Commerce solutions and systems that we will have the opportunity to work on in the future. </p> |
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| + | <p>For our choice of project, we engaged a logistics company in the market that has partnered with various firms handling the logistics solutions and e-Commerce platforms for them. From this project, we will have the opportunity to learn from the hands on experience with the data provided to us by the sponsor. This project involves various countries and has data originating from each of the countries, hence the language used for certain data columns such as address and instructions are in the country’s native language (E.g. Japanese, Chinese, Thai). The challenge to handle such non-standardized data fields and to gain insights from it gives us the opportunity to learn beyond the classroom.</p> | ||
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| + | <p>From this project, we will gain many opportunities like these to familiarize ourselves with handling real world data unlike what we have used thus far in our classes. Having to handle the unexpected and learning how projects are managed in the real world through hands-on are unlike what we have experienced thus far in our classes. We believe that this project will provide us with invaluable experiences that allow us to put what we learnt into practice, while receiving further guidance on how to better improve our work before we step out into the real world to handle such things ourselves. </p> | ||
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Project Background
Our sponsors are a Regional Logistics Provider that has done many different projects, handling areas pertaining to warehousing, distribution and e-Commerce. One of the new projects taken on by the company is to manage the distribution network for one of its major clients, handling both reverse logistics and forward logistics, hence having both inbound and outbound shipments. With the start of this new project, the complexities in the processes have resulted in complications that require finding solutions from the data which gives us an understanding of what is happening on ground as we cannot be physically present. Similarly, all questions posed by the client are to be answered accompanied by data evidence to prove the legitimacy of the answers. Hence it becomes crucial to find ways to better read and understand the data to gain deeper insights from it.
Business Problem
Despite the amount of data handled by the team, the lack of a dashboard to show summary tables regarding the status of the shipments has made it difficult for the program managers and the sales team to monitor and follow up with requests from the client regarding specific shipments. The data used by them comes from a number of different sources, which needs to be mapped to their own templates to be used effectively by them.
Furthermore, the shift of the company’s approach to be proactive instead of reactive has prompted the development of systems to aid in monitoring and also provide analysis for users to not just follow up on cases, but to also seek avenues for further improvements.
With this opportunity, we have begun working with the company to take the first step into developing a tool that would provide them with better insights into their data.
Motivation
As final year students graduating soon from university, we sought to find a project that would suit our future directions in career path. All of us in the team are keen to take on a career related to either e-Commerce or logistics. Hence, we believe that the project we have chosen would familiarise us with the workings of logistics and distribution and aid us greatly in managing e-Commerce solutions and systems that we will have the opportunity to work on in the future.
For our choice of project, we engaged a logistics company in the market that has partnered with various firms handling the logistics solutions and e-Commerce platforms for them. From this project, we will have the opportunity to learn from the hands on experience with the data provided to us by the sponsor. This project involves various countries and has data originating from each of the countries, hence the language used for certain data columns such as address and instructions are in the country’s native language (E.g. Japanese, Chinese, Thai). The challenge to handle such non-standardized data fields and to gain insights from it gives us the opportunity to learn beyond the classroom.
From this project, we will gain many opportunities like these to familiarize ourselves with handling real world data unlike what we have used thus far in our classes. Having to handle the unexpected and learning how projects are managed in the real world through hands-on are unlike what we have experienced thus far in our classes. We believe that this project will provide us with invaluable experiences that allow us to put what we learnt into practice, while receiving further guidance on how to better improve our work before we step out into the real world to handle such things ourselves.
