The wastage of perishable items has led to significant health and economic crises, increasing business uncertainty and fluctuating customer demand.
Accurate demand forecasting helps stabilize inventory, optimize supplier orders, and reduce waste.
A Third-Party Logistics (3PL) supply chain model involving restaurants, online food apps, and customers is presented.
A deep learning-based demand forecasting model using a two-phase Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network is proposed to combat the bullwhip effect in online food delivery platforms.