Plateforme pratique pour planifier l'approvisionnement en nourriture dans les avions

Plate-forme d'alimentation à bord (FOBP)

FOBP gathers information from third-party services about scheduled flights and predicts the plane’s load with food considering individual menus for certain passengers, cabin class, and other parameters of a particular flight. Subsequently, the forecasts are reported to the catering companies or flight station managers.

To introduce the basic flow, let’s consider the example. Firstly, FOBP scans the information in open sources about planned flights (websites of the airlines, etc.). Then the service receives a message (via a message broker) with information that, suppose, in 17 days, flight number ML4416 will fly from London to New York, and there are N economy class and M business class passengers. This message passes through the chain of service handlers that implement various forecast correction strategies. Finally, the forecast is stored in the system and transmitted to the catering company. It is worth mentioning that platform allows developing strategies for adjusting the forecast and viewing the history, status, and forecasting effectiveness.