Cherepakha O. Formation of the virtual management system for delivery process of the consumer goods in large cities

The object under research is the consumer goods delivery process in large cities. The objective of the study is to improve the delivery of consumer goods through the use of the virtual process control system in large cities. Methods of mathematical modeling, mathematical statistics, and regression analysis have been used to generate the virtual delivery cargo management system. The virtual process control system of consumer goods delivery in urban areas has been developed that can receive and process the information about freight traffic parameters, perform forecasting of freight traffic parameters for the operational planning process, delivery of goods, develop virtual routes of consumer goods delivery in the trade network of large cities. For the first time, an approach to achieve sustainable virtual routes of goods delivery that in contrast to the existing ones in the current mode allows determining the routes for the stochastic parameters of demand delivery has been proposed. There has been improved the method for freight forecasting parameters for goods delivery in large cities based on the neural networks through the development of the neural network structure to take into account the periodic nature of the demand for the goods delivery. There has been further developed the approach to the information system formation on the parameters of freight traffic data collection based on the use of client-server database management systems due to the normalization of the structure parameters of freight traffic database by allocating separate tables that contain customer attributes, characteristics and applications. The research results can be used by transport companies, freight-forwarding agencies, as well as shippers and cargo owners for cargo delivery in large cities.