A Demand Supply Matching Solution
The company has 393 nurseries and 2,052 partner nurseries in France, with a total of approximately 12,500 slots. In order to best match nurseries’ openings with enrollment requests, the solution is developed through an algorithm that matches demand and supply, taking into account individual characteristics both of the requests and of the openings.
Each nursery has a set of properties:
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Number of offered days per week
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Specific time slots of availability within each day
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Babies’ age window (ex. above 3 years-old)
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Location
Each family also has its own set of properties:
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Baby’s age
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Requested/preferred days per week
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Requested/preferred time of the day
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Preferred two or three nurseries for the baby
The solution assigns babies to nurseries respecting their constraints and maximizes preferences over a set of objectives (e.g. nursery coverage, full-time equivalent, start date, ...). Planners have the flexibility to adjust the optimization parameters directly into the solution.
Once the user defines the desired set of objectives, the solution delivers the optimal match in a matter of minutes. When a scenario is selected, each nursery is then assigned a specific list of babies. Planners are able to easily generate several scenarios, compare them and decide the one to be implemented.