The ORTEC Perfect Shipment concept covers load building solutions that provide the ability for companies to generate fully utilized truckloads. When needed even in advance of the execution of orders and shipments, based on demand forecasts.
The Value
The results are quantifiable, measurable and real:
- Reduce the number of loads required to ship product
- Increase full truckload orders
- Reduce order discount bracket pricing lost revenue
- Enable planners to focus on planning demand rather than building trucks
The concept provides a platform for identifying and building the most important order quantities for delivery to an internal distribution location or customer location. It enables visibility to coordinate replenishments of stock transfer orders, VMI requirements, and customer orders. This enables decision-making to support demand-sensing and shaping planning activities far in advance of planning and execution processes. ORTEC solutions based on Perfect Shipment concept complements your demand, supply, warehousing and transportation planning activities using non-invasive methods.
Key Capabilities - Planners can forecast transportation requirements far in advance of transportation planning processes.
- Identifies how many trucks are required while ensuring full truckloads are released for downstream business processes in the proper sequence.
- Promotion demand can be fulfilled and delivered before turn business and forecasted demand is released.
- Combination of outbound and inbound loads to minimize unnecessary empty mileage in the system
- The solution provides a rich set of features that allows your company to configure what and how replenishment demands should be prioritized on a truck.
The Benefits The solution will provide planning and operations with answers to:
- Determine how many actual trucks are needed for next week’s demand
- Identify potential upsizing of customer’s orders to full-truck-load capacity
- Prioritize which line items need to be delivered in the same delivery window
- Create multiple trucks from larger-than-truckload purchase orders
- Identify the best orders to group together to fully utilize the truck
- Create the best mixed case pallets
- Provide views of truck capacity at customer service, transportation and warehousing to allow for adjustments
- Ensure what is built in planning is executable in the warehouse
Application areas: Industries: a.o.
Consumer Packaged Goods, Fast Moving Consumer Goods
Solutions areas: a.o. Load Building and Vehicle Routing
ORTEC contribution:
ORTEC solutions like ORTEC LEO-PLB, ORTEC TLO (SAP embedded) and ORTEC PLB all contribute to the concept of concept of Perfect Shipments.
ORTEC references a.o.:
General Mills Church and Dwight Georgia Pacific
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