Requirements
We are working for a retail company that buys its products from different places in Asian mostly. each shop can go to the buying web site and say what he wants and put an order. Up to now, the transport cost was a estimated but not calculated on the content of the order. The purpose is to implement such a calculator.
Data model
A customer puts an order that contains products. An order contains a lot of products with a number. A product has
a name
a height,
a width,
a depth,
transport type : if the product can be put with other products in a pallet, individual(alone) or bulk (like sand for example)
a weight
A product can be put on a pallet. a pallet 120 cm width and and 80 cm depth. It can be maximum 2 meters height and the weight should not exceed 1400 kg. We should use a simple algorithm to fill each pallet. It will be not optimized but we should used that as a margin of the costs. a product that is bigger than 60 cm in width or depth or higher than 1m should be put alone in a pallet.
All products start from the same city and go to the same city in an order. A trip is composed f steps. Each step can be done by train, boat or truck.
Here is the list of products in our test order.
Product
Transport type
Number
Height
Weight
Depth
Weight
Drill
pallet
1000
20cm
40cm
30cm
2 kg
Screwdriver
pallet
30000
3cm
2cm
20cm
0,2 kg
Sand
bulk
35 Tons
Gravel
bulk
14 Tons
Furniture
individual
23
500 kg
And the trip is a follows :
#
start city
arrival city
distance (km)
travel mode
1
Shangai
Rotterdam
22000
Boat
2
Rotterdam
Tournai
300
Train
3
Tournai
Lille
20
Truck
There are 3 types of costs :
transport costs per Pallet
Transport
Cost
Boat
0,2€\/km
Train
0,5€\/km
Truck
1€\/km
Taxes
City
Cost
Shangai
0,02€\/kg
Rotterdam
0,05€\/kg and 1€ per handling person
Tournai
2€ per handling person
Lille
30€ per handling person
handling
City
Cost
Shangai
20€\/hour and a person can handle 13 pallets\/hour
Rotterdam
45€\/hour and a person can handle 60 pallets\/hour
Tournai
67€\/hour and a person can handle 40 pallets\/hour
Lille
79€\/hour and a person can handle 30 pallets\/hour
The handling should not take more than 12 hours per city.
The source code and the solution can be found here.
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