Retail and Transportation

Vehicle Routing and Dispatch

Challenge Challenges for Vehicle Routing and Dispatch include

  • strategic level: where to invest, e.g. in warehouses, in distribution points, in main routes, in equipment.
  • tactical level: based on the investments made, the demands from customers and partners available, what is the best plan for this month/week.
  • operational level: how to react, almost realtime, on illness of truck drivers, traffic jams, trucks that break down, customers who have last minute demands.
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Solution ORTEC solutions for Trade Transport and Logistics are characterized by 3 points:

  • the services include business process knowledge;
  • implementation know how;
  • strong user service.
The products include strong process models, user interfaces and real-time import/export features. Using ORTEC Vehicle Routing and Dispatch solutions will bring you:
  • cost reduction 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 span of control for planner and dispatcher, (universal acces to all data by any person if required), real-time interaction with systems (ERP, TMS) and devices (board computer, handheld PC)
  • i mproved process effectiveness through limitiation of manual data entry activities to the absolute minimum.
The ORTEC Vehicle Routing and Dispatch functions are bundled in 3 solutions sets:

  • ORTEC Transport and Distribution (ORTEC TD of OTD)
  • ORTEC Shortrec
  • ORTEC LEO
ORTEC Transport & Distribution (ORTEC TD or OTD) supports the daily planning of all pickups and deliveries. Insight is given in working time, driving time and capacity utilisation, both for delivery and collection part. ORTEC Transport & Distribution supports the real-time dispatch of the (unknown) pickups, taking actual position and volumes into account. Proposals are given from which the user can select, based on service or cost.

ORTEC Shortrec is the powerful batch solution for computing optimal rounds for deliveries and pickups. ORTEC Shortrec can be used for tactical purposes, when considering new customers or seasonal patterns, but also at daily basis for the optimal computation.

ORTEC LEO includes the in SAP embedded Vehicle Routing and Dispatch solution for SAP users, next to optimization solutions for Pallet Loading and Carton Loading.

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