Pitney Bowes Shipping Hackathon 2019

Providing businesses with an intelligent way to ship that is both cost-effective and efficient.

Use cases you can explore:

1. Intelligent Parcel shipping/Tracking/Receiving using AI/ML-based techniques e.g. Using Historical data to provide suggestions, Savings, visual recognition of parcel type and suggestive packing to reduce shipping cost and space.
2. Parcel Receiving Management: Use AI/ML to automate screening and receiving of parcel - the most secure way to do it.
3. Predictive Shipping Planner: use of Google API’s, Carrier API’s to predict the most efficient way to plan and send the shipments. Any integrations with retail or eCommerce orders for such a planner also falls in this area.
4. Parcel Security: Develop ML/AI based parcel scanning system to scan the shipment for dangerous goods being shipped.
5. Voice Supported Shipping: Build a conversational user interface for shipping tablet to enable shippers to pick, pack and ship orders with voice-enabled commands like Alexa, Google Assistant. It may include, but not limited to, handling orders, printing labels, packing slips, purchasing postage, checking balances.
6. Parcel Insurance: Use Predictive analytics to suggest the parcel insurance amount based on Pitney Bowes datasets (Crime, Geography).
7. Reduce undelivered mails and packages by enhancing addressing capabilities.
8. Carrier choices based on cost, predictive delivery, the value on added services or fastest delivery.

Businesses often have little to no room for error, and productivity depends on hyper-smart time management and budget-friendly choices. Can your application help boost their Performance and Productivity?

Some key areas include:

1. Manage Employees: Employee Scheduling, Attendance & timesheets, Employee Tracking, Payroll, HRM.
2. Connected Customer: Customer outreach and Customer Engagement: Staying connected with customers to increase engagement.
3. Marketing: Increase your customer footprint.
4. Connectors: to various eCommerce market places.
5. Expense Management.
6. Develop a point of Sale Systems App: Clients today need a simple and easy way to process retail or service transaction.

Any Innovative solution which can help small businesses work faster, easier and better.

Use cases you can explore but not limited to:

1. Using intelligent locker for shipping and receiving packets.
2. Label less Shipping: Innovative ways to send a shipment/parcel without labels such as using QR codes or other ways.
3. Help ship globally – 2/3 day delivery apps to send parcels globally.

Note: You can ideate and create a prototype on anything which helps businesses scale and is not mentioned in the above themes.