Union

Union is a platform, available through a website, through which people in a community can request and offer almost anything they want and receive it at home. Its differential value is that it offers a fast, economic, easily accessible and personalized community service.

The current situation generated by the coronavirus has profoundly impacted the world economy, transforming the market for product deliveries of almost all goods and services. That is why a platform focused on strengthening local supply chains has been developed, in which, for example, the local baker can offer their products and their customers can access them while maintaining the recommended social distance.

Local supply chains, the main key of the business Undoubtedly, one of the main problems of the current pandemic has been the global blockade of transport, which has forced local producers to be observed to supply the needs generated. And it is that people are not willing to abruptly change their consumption habits, added to the feeling of support for the consumption of national products as a way to revive the local economy, it is necessary to connect these points through a platform that directs orders and deliveries.

Customer experience That this website is successful is also due to the client's connection with personal experiences from childhood or youth, which generate a positive memory in the mind of whoever purchases a product through the platform. His priority is to perform a quality service quickly and he achieves this thanks to technology.

Delivery Independent couriers connected to the website or producers with delivery routes. They must have free time, a vehicle and their own smartphone. Your commission may increase depending on the valuation you obtain in the application for your services provided. Therefore, the higher the valuation, the more income.

What you have done during the weekend A prototype web page for the territory of Portugal in which each page is structured with a header that remarks on the "Union" brand, and a body that refers to the products and services offered within the country's regions. The prototype presents an ordering of the information in cascade, with a total of 3 levels. In the first level is the location and global description of the search, in the second level is the general categories of services or products offered within a region, for the third level the web page has differentiated the suppliers of goods and services with their specific brand or name where the articles offered and their address will be located.

The solution’s impact to the crisis A website designed for local producers of goods and services, in which local supply chains are revalued, facilitating communication and the development of micro-entrepreneurs, all framed within the new biosafety guidelines and it's respecting the social distance recommendations. The website is inspired by the producers who make their sales personally, and their product delivery chain is carried out through a defined route within a specific area. That they do not have a fixed salary at the end of the month and that their income is daily and variable according to the number of sales made during that period of time. A reality that under the current conditions of social distancing they haven't carried out in a regular way.

The necessities in order to continue the project It is an initial phase of the project, in which we seek to capture the idea, and as a next step, we seek to find those producers who are interested in showing their products and services on the website, where we'll begin connecting the needs of customers with the offer of the producers. We need to link the design of the web page with an internet hosting provider and a webmaster who helps us with the necessary coding to make the Union web page fully operational.

The value of your solution(s) after the crisis The website is designed to offer goods and services from local suppliers and producers that for various reasons do not have access to current mobile applications and they've had the greatest negative impact on their economy during mandatory social distancing. This will allow the local economy of the regions to be reactivated, it'll take advantage of the desire and the general idea of national consumption as a mechanism of general aid and it'll cope with the impact of the current world health crisis.

The URL to the prototype: https://marvelapp.com/119eifde/screen/68577931