Logistics interactive game “LogisticUM” for students was held at St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design. Young logisticians competed in solving cases and defending projects.
The University of Industrial Technologies and Design was represented by a team of students from the Graduate School of Technology and Energy of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, who study in the field of “logistics and supply chain management”. The guys won an unqualified victory and won the first place, beating SPbSEU and LETI. Last year the university managed to win only the third place in a hard struggle with its rivals.
The game “LogisticUM” is held in St. Petersburg for the third time. The ideologist of the logistics game format became the specialists of the Department of Marketing and Logistics of the Higher School of Technology and Energy of Ƶ. This season, six university teams participated in the collective solution of cases from companies engaged in freight transportation and development of logistics services. The team was given only five minutes for defense.
This year's LogisticUM case providers were ATI.SU, an ecosystem of services for transportation logistics in Russia and the CIS, and 1C-Sitek, a developer of robotic solutions in the field of intelligent automation.
Case-task from ATI.SU.
The students were offered a company-manufacturer of goods. From the main warehouse the goods here are delivered to the sales warehouses, where they are picked up by their own carriers or hired transport. Self-delivery is also available. One fulfillment warehouse accepts up to ten cars per day. The goal is to receive twenty cars. Problems: no schedule - constant queues at loading; no queue - it is not clear who to load for whom; many fines due to idle carriers; not enough employees - there are only three storekeepers for six zones; long registration of passes to the warehouse and to the exit: the guard issues a pass and goes to sign it at the head of the warehouse and storekeeper; drivers do not understand which loading zone and how to approach.
The young logisticians had to make sure that everyone - from the guard to the end customer - understood who would arrive, when they would arrive and what they would pick up, and the driver knew what time and where they would be loaded. The students had to guess how the warehouse management system should look like, what changes should be made to the existing processes, what must be in the warehouse management program, how to get rid of queues so that the cars arrive and load on schedule.
Solution of the Ƶ team for ATI.SU.
Here the team of the University of Industrial Technologies and Design proposed to reduce transport downtime and get rid of queues: to implement applications based on 1C WMS:YMS. Students solve the problem of lack of schedule and constant queues for loading through the development of time management for loading for each type of vehicle, and a large number of fines due to downtime and long registration of passes - through the introduction of electronic document management. A system of notifying the driver in an app or by SMS about which gate to approach and how to load was also proposed, as well as the use of blockchain technology to determine the current load on the warehouse. Implementing robotization in the warehouse to reduce the workforce load was also considered.
A case study from 1C-Sitech.
The students were offered to consider a situation where robots are operating in the warehouse and moving racks of goods to the picking station. Each robot can make one trip in five minutes, and per trip it transports one rack. On average, it takes ten minutes to pick one order. There are three robots and two employees working in the warehouse. Students had to calculate how many trips the three robots could make per shift; how many orders the employees could pick in one eight-hour shift if the robots could run their routes continuously; and how long it would take to fulfill all the orders if forty orders had to be picked per shift. The teams also had to solve an analytical problem - to increase the picking speed and the number of orders picked per shift in the warehouse using robotics.
The solution of the Ƶ team for 1C-Sitek.
A team from the Department of Marketing and Logistics at the Graduate School of Technology and Energy at Ƶ developed a plan to modernize the warehouse by proposing a diagnosis of the order processing process, identifying bottlenecks and process timings.
“If the problem is a lack of production capacity, we buy additional robots and attract additional labor; if the problem is a suboptimal route of robots, we use algorithms for routing and the order of feeding racks; if the problem of long assembly appeared because of clutter in the workplace, we make the place more ergonomic,” the students decided.
The team also automated assembly through the introduction of a robotic arm on the same line.
As partners and jury members of the game “LogisticUM” were the leading companies of Russia: Sber, VTB, X5 Retail Group, Pyaterochka, Petrovich, Kanavara Group, AXELOT, MONOPOLY. ONLINE, JSC GC EKS, Asist-pro LLC, KORUS-consulting, SDS, Netbell, Karavay, Modern Forwarding, Leader LLC, SberLogistics, Transport Solutions LLC, VSP Construction and Repair Company LLC.

