I am currently pursuing a Master’s Camp in Product Management at Masters’ Union. One of the main reasons to choose this Camp was the stories that I heard about Start-up weekend. I was exhilarated to participate when Start-up weekend was announced. It was announced on 28th Oct with the inauguration 1week for preparation and 06th Nov Judgment Day.

 

I was responsible for defining the algorithm logic in the project and preparing the business requirement document with defined flows and constraints.

 

Goal: To improve the service level by 5 to 10 percent points to increase competitiveness

 

Problem Statement: To design an algorithm that will help predict the shortest shipment path (Entity) in the existing company network.

 

Functional Requirement:

 

1. Algorithm logic for predicting the shortest path

2. Expected landing date against shipment

3. Priority flag for shipment that will fail according to predication

4. Masters (Route, cutoff, and nodes) defined

 

Non- Functional Requirement: 

 

1. Scalability: System should be able to handle 60 to 70 lac transactions per day

2. Performance: System should be able to perform with low latency 

3. Robust:  System should be available at all times for each transaction

 

MVP:

 

• Solution:

  • Offline wrote Dijkstra's algorithm in pandas

  • Algo helped in predicting the shortest route for shipment to the origin pincode to the destination pincode

  • Checked offline for 1k shipments the shortest path 

  • Accuracy of predication  ~ 95%

• Code written in pandas: Download

 

Product:

 

• BRD & PRD submitted to the Tech team to develop the promise engine service ( predication system)

• All the offline logic explained to tech for development 

• Tech team using neo.js DB (graph is the core part of the algo)

• Tech team has developed the PE service that different modules in the organization can use