
Waste Management Logistic Flow Analysis Platform
RECUPEL
Challenge
Recupel is a non profit organization responsible for monitoring
and coordinating the recycling of electrical appliances in Belgium. They manage
the entire chain, from collection points everywhere across the country,
to recycling facilities."
Monitoring of the whole network generates a substantial amount of
data from various sources. This data needs to be processed and consolidated
to generate comprehensive reports and dashboards, which are essential
to properly allocate resources.
However, as the complexity of this data increased, the existing
solution began to show lack of performance, becoming too fragile and
time-consuming. In response to this challenge, Recupel approached our team
at B12 with the aim of designing a more robust custom tool capable of
efficiently processing this data.
Outcome
Our first step involved the creation of a dedicated web platform
designed to clearly visualize the entire network of their operation, resulting
in an increased understanding of the data. The visualization is fully interactive,
empowering Recupel’s team to dive in and explore any part of the network
in a detailed manner. This first step was made possible by transforming
the raw data into a well-designed graph structure.
We utilized this graph structure to seamlessly produce all the
necessary reports, allowing Recupel’s team to receive a detailed breakdown
of all the electrical appliances origins. To achieve this, the platform
provides Recupel's team with the ability to input all the complex rules
governing the network.
Conclusion
The close collaboration between our team and Recupel proved
to be a success, transforming an old, error-prone and time consuming process
into a platform generating accurate reports within minutes. Recupel
is now more confident in the accuracy of their reports, and has gained
invaluable insights from their own data.