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What are the main challenges of Retail companies we focus on: |
- How to organize more store friendly shipments
- How to reduce empty miles
- How to consolidate cross-channel order management to improve customer satisfaction
- How to reduce carbon footprint and transportation costs at the same time
- How to reduce freight costs
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Our solutions: |
ORTEC solutions for retail cover vehicle routing and dispatch and Workforce scheduling
Our vehicle routing and dispatch solutions include: - for strategic and tactical network planning: ORTEC TRP
- for operational vehicle routing: ORTEC Shortrec
- for multi-site, multi-user vehicle routing and dispatch, including integration with TMS and mobile devices systems: ORTEC TD
- for SAP embedded vehicle routing: ORTEC LEO
For more information on workforce scheduling, go to our special page.
For an overview of our solutions offering, see picture below. |
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Your benefits: |
- Utilization improvement because of less driving times and distance and less hours spent on planning activities;
- Improved customer service through increased insight in waiting hours, slack times, pro-active exception management, notification of shipment status and increased performance being on time
- Improved process efficiency through a larger and more centralized span of control for planner and dispatcher, real-time interaction with systems (ERP, TMS) and mobile devices (on-board computer, handheld PC)
- Improved process effectiveness through minimizing of manual data entry activities
ORTEC Results in Retail
ORTEC is present in the total supply chain: from mik collection to distribution to retailers and even consumers. With solutions for both shippers and carriers. See below for the allround contribution of ORTEC to a nationwide, cross enterprises CPG - Retail supply chain.
ORTEC solutions offer a high degree of integration with ERP, TMS and mobile devices. An overview is given below.
Our References
ORTEC has an impressive Retail Industry resume, varying from its very first customer Food Retailer Schuitema, signed in 1981, to many customers within the top of European Food Retailers today. ORTEC’s customer list includes:
Ahold
ORTEC optimizes Ahold’s supply chain with the integration of outlet distribution, and DC and customer transport. In-home deliveries have increased from 11 to 14 stops per trip.
Carrefour
ORTEC finished its software implementation in France in 1994 at Carrefour’s 15 depots and more than 1400 outlets, which resulted in improved SLA, higher vehicle productivity and less sub-contracting.
Spar
Since 2003, Food Retailer SPAR has been using ORTEC’s software at 6 different sites in Austria, which covers 27 planners, 16 depots and over 2500 outlets. ORTEC’s unique solution for SPAR includes optimized pallet building and automatic optimal depot calculation. One of the results is a strong increase in SPAR’s customer service.
Transgourmet
Food-service Company TransGourmet, owned by Coop et Rewe, is a key player in European wholesale distribution, specialized in delivering food and non-food products to bakeries and service-outlets. With ORTEC Shortrec TransGourmet plans its fleet of 700 trucks to over 60.000 customers all over France.
More references in Food Distribution
More references in Non-food Distribution
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