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Scheduling Cleaning Services
The Minte, a housekeeping scale-up from the USA, allows flexible scheduling of cleaning services. These services are assigned creating a schedule for each housekeeper. Housekeepers serve multiple properties spread across a geographical area. This incurs significant travel costs if the schedule is not created in a way that minimizes the distance travelled by housekeeping personnel, having a strong negative impact on unit.
Goal
Automatically schedule housekeepers to optimize the core activity of the business.
Impact
The proprietary scheduling algorithm got deployed in production and became the main USP of The Minte
User rating improvement: 1.5 -> 3.9
Reduction in total work hours: ~ 25%
Time to create a schedule: 2 ~ 5 minutes
Problems
Constrained scheduling taking into consideration hard and soft business constraints, such as availability windows, minimizing travel costs and clean type ordering.
Solution
A microservice with a scheduling program using exact and heuristic methods that accepts clean data, housekeeper data and constraints and outputs complete schedule.
Technical Highlights
2-step solution that optimizes the way the schedule is created based on the problem size that resulted in >90% reduction in runtime compared to the benchmark and no loss in schedule quality.
Testimonial
“ProphecyLabs was instrumental in helping us re-think our approach to how we capture and schedule bookings. Their technical expertise and guidance, together, led to the development of a scheduling servicethat has truly unleashed our company’s ability to scale.”
Jonathan Ogolo, VP of Technology
