Efficient Load Planning for Warehouse Transfers
Automating daily mission-critical operations for efficiency and agility.
Automating daily mission-critical operations for efficiency and agility.
A leading UK-based food supplier with 60+ years of experience, 20+ distribution centers nationwide, and a 6,000+ team. They serve the requirements of large-scale customers and provide a wide range of food products. The food supplier leverages their vast logistics network to guarantee timely deliveries, even to remote locations.
The company faced problems with their manual ordering and load planning processes which handle thousands of products daily. These operations depend on accurate calculations of vehicle space utilization based on product dimensions and weights. The complexity of this function resulted in erroneous load calculations, time delays, vehicle underutilization or overload, delivery schedule disruptions, and higher transportation costs.
A more streamlined and automated solution for efficient operations was an imperative for the company.
We designed the solution to automate manual functions, reduce operational complexity, enable real-time planning, and improve the user experience.
The solution provides the following capabilities:
The customer has a user-friendly system with real-time data integration to support scalable operations.
These are some of the immediate benefits:
With this new system, the company is more agile, able to adapt faster to changing, implement new strategies quickly, and stay competitive. Real-time data strengthens decision-making at the company. This solution reduces operational disruptions through integration and communication of the many different systems and processes in the company. This also reduces downtime and errors.