Sic : An Intelligent Packing System with Industry-Grade Features

Optimal container loading provides efficiency, lower costs, and fundamental benefits for any supply chain. However, obtaining these benefits remains an unsolved problem for many companies. SIC (Sistema Inteligente de Cubicaje, Intelligent Packing System in English) has been developed with the user in mind, with extensive possibilities for creating, defining, saving, editing and exporting container loading instances by performing clear, precise and concise interactions. SIC is a consumer-grade open-source application developed using the Unity game engine that generates packing patterns from user-defined instances of the Container Loading Problem (CLP). SIC can create packing patterns for boxes and convex polyhedra employing optimization algorithms. SIC also intends to contribute to the development of new CPL algorithms since its modular structure allows the optimization engine to be easily changed, thus allowing the academic community interested in CPL to save time in creating software, focusing that time on conceiving better solution algorithms. The default optimization modules included in SIC for boxes and connected polyhedra have been tested against the best methods in the literature, showing similar results in run time and container usability. For the future of SIC, we intend to create a web application so that users can run it from any computer, allowing them to access their loads and load spaces. Additionally, it pretends to include more complex CPL constraints