Transport organization

An approach that allows you to adapt your transport organization—regardless of your activity—to market constraints and business developments.

To improve performance and address your current priorities, whether it's budget control, service level, GHG emissions reduction, mileage reduction, or changes in your vehicle fleet...

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Use cases

  • Select the right transport model for each flow

    • Identify flows eligible for each transport model: trunking-distribution, routed deliveries, direct, cross-docking
    • Compare and select the best organizational models based on your criteria…

  • Compare Direct Flows vs Trunking-Distribution

    • Consolidate long-distance flows and pool last-mile deliveries into distribution rounds
    • Simulate upstream flows: multi-pick collections, consolidation at hubs, and trunking to destination sites
    • Highlight the benefits of reorganizing part of the flows currently handled through groupage…

  • Reschedule your flows

    • Analyze and adjust your shipping or delivery schedule to consolidate flows and maximize load factors
    • Align frequencies by zone or customer group to capture co-loading synergies for deliveries or collections
    • Adjust service levels (frequency/scheduling) and assess the impact on transport costs and GHG emissions
    • Initiate a data-driven, collaborative approach with customers or suppliers to modify service levels (frequency, cadence, lead time…)

  • Find the right balance between cost and service

    • Highlight the right trade-off between flow consolidation and service level
    • Compare transport organizations in terms of cost and service performance

  • Integrate rail-road into your transport schemes

    • Compare traditional road transport schemes with multimodal alternatives such as road + rail + road distribution
    • Evaluate the challenges and feasibility in terms of cost, GHG emissions, and lead times
    • Envision shared rail-road routes by easily consolidating flows from different stakeholders or business activities…

  • Simulate upstream pickup flows

    • Compare a pickup-based solution to a delivered (DAP) solution
    • Evaluate the true cost of upstream pickup flows
    • Project the impact of volume changes per delivery (minimum order quantity, batch size, etc.) on upstream transport costs…

With your constraints

  • Network settings

    Easily configure links within a network:

    • Flow eligibility (or not) for a DC/Hub
    • Vehicle assignment to a site
    • Order allocation to one or multiple eligible sites
    • Definition of minimum/maximum thresholds…

  • Service levels

    Define the range of possibilities in terms of:

    • Delivery lead times
    • Dock processing times
    • Scheduling and frequency
    • Adherence (or not) to historical time windows…

  • Site settings

    Model all the elements to reflect your real-world operations!

    • Receiving and delivery time slots
    • Warehouse capacity
    • Logistics cost of your DC or Hub
    • Vehicle assignment to sites…

  • Vehicle characteristics

    Detailed modeling of vehicle constraints:

    • Vehicle type (bodywork / size)
    • Capacity in terms of weight, volume, duration, and distance
    • Energy type…

For immediate benefits

  • Ensure economic performance

    Regularly compare different collection / transfer / distribution options to ensure the performance of your decisions

  • Collaborate with your carriers

    Be able to identify potential synergies between your flows and provide carriers with levers to optimize transport operations.

  • Continuously adapt your flow schemes

    Evolve your organization toward new transport schemes, and regularly reassess them based on market changes and your business dynamics

Customer testimonials

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