Backhauling is where goods are collected from a delivery point directly following a delivery.
For example, a factory may deliver finished goods in trucks, but they also need a supply of parts from other sources in order to make those goods. Instead of having those parts delivered, they could use their returning empty vehicles to collect those parts.
Many supermarkets already do this. When their trucks have made a delivery from their distribution centre to their stores, they occasionally re-route to a supplier's premises and collect goods and take them to the distribution centre. Occasionally, the need to accommodate product returns and returning transit equipment, such as roll cage covers, has to be taken into account.
Application areas:
Industries: Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods
Solutions areas: Vehicle Routing and Dispatch, Pallet and Load Building
ORTEC contribution:
ORTEC solutions like ORTEC Shortrec, ORTEC Transportation and Distribution, ORTEC LEO SRO (SAP embedded load building and vehicle routing)
ORTEC references a.o.:
Walmart, Tesco.
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