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Retrieving baggage lost at airport #logistics #lostandfound

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:40:00 +0000

Retrieving baggage lost during transit at busy international airports are a huge hassle if not impossible. Since hundreds of baggage pass through the conveyor belts at these airports at any given moment it's easy for a baggage to be misplaced.

Locating such lost baggage could take weeks at busy airports where thousands of baggage are added to the lost&found section every day, If our baggage was lost at a connecting airport we would be in a different city or country by the time we realize that our baggage was lost.

Even the top-rated premium airlines do a bad job at repatriating lost baggage due to the sheer volume that they often prefer to reimburse instead, But some lost items could have emotional value.

There could be a need-gap for a service which could help repatriate lost luggage to the owner by coordinating with the airline/airport.
3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

E-commerce returns #e-commerce #logistics

Fri, 20 May 2022 19:57:00 +0000

Currently when customers want to return something they bought online they box up take to mail center, this is not how they received it so inconvenient this has cost companies roughly 500 billion dollars.

Sometimes they let you keep and get refund also under fire for destroying unused products.

3 points posted by TheIceMan

Cold chain systems to distribute COVID vaccine #logistics #supplychain

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:06:00 +0000

As the vaccine for COVID-19 is on the horizon, world over nations are scrambling to upgrade their cold chain - logistics and supply chain to deliver the vaccine to their citizens when made available.

Vaccines generally require very cold temperatures for storage during distribution. Although several countries already have national vaccination program with cold chain infrastructure, COVID-19 vaccines announced so far have very stringent cold storage requirement of -20˚C to -80˚C making it difficult for distribution even for those countries.

Furthermore, these vaccines consists of multiple doses, so theoretically we are looking at last mile delivery of about at-least 15 Billion vaccines doses for a two dose COVID-19 vaccine.

This raises large need gap in several sectors where startups can participate directly or indirectly namely,

Vaccine Manufacturing (Optimization).
Fridge, Freezers (Storage).
Insulation materials (Temperature control).
Transportation (Air/Land).
Reliable temperature monitoring (IoT).
Inventory management, Distribution management (Cloud software, Database systems)
Post-Vaccine large scale health symptoms monitoring(Cloud software, IoT, Mobile apps, Encryption).
Strengthening telecommunication systems to handle the network pressure (Computer Networking, Cyber Security).

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian