Routing and Scheduling

Route Planning: Making the Plan Better, Smarter, Faster

ORTEC Routing and Scheduling is an advanced planning solution that optimizes route planning across a wide range of transportation and distribution sectors. This functionally robust solution combines planning optimization with real-time execution and dispatch capabilities to create optimal route plans based on an unlimited number of constraints including distance, equipment type, capacity, miles and driver characteristics.  The result is more deliveries with fewer trucks, helping to cut transportation costs as well as carbon emissions.

Capabilities of ORTEC Routing & Scheduling include:

• Support of typical distribution planning scenarios such as order position in route, flexible time restrictions, multi-depot planning, and reversing the order of deliveries in a route;
• Flexible resource planning and management of resource status and location;
• Utilize traffic congestion patterns to ensure improved ETA calculations;
• Management of driver hours of service and DOT laws to calculate necessary breaks, helping to make drivers more efficient;
• Support of typical bulk/liquid (multi-compartment) planning scenarios like axle weight distribution, calculations based on actual amounts, and proposal for best cleaning location;
• Real-time event management with alerts for violated restrictions or business rules, issue/event messages and KPI monitoring; and
• KPI dashboards and reporting to create data reports and add real time KPI monitors to the planners view.

 

Companies that Benefit

The centralized, scalable architecture of ORTEC Routing and Scheduling is used to support mid-sized companies with local distribution needs, large multi-national companies with numerous sites as well as third party logistics companies servicing a wide array of complex distribution needs for their customers. The system can manage operational planning for companies with rolling planning horizons of any length, from real-time scheduling to strategic planning. In addition, it can tackle dispatch and execution functions ranging from static to real-time through the use of mobile solutions and on board computers and any level of decision support including manual planning, automated planning or a hybrid of the two.

Return on Investment

Companies using ORTEC Routing and Scheduling realize transportation savings between 3 and 15 percent. In addition, ROI can be achieved through the following business improvements:

Currently, ORTEC optimizes more than 225,000 shipments on a daily basis for customers including Church & Dwight, Clorox, Coca-Cola Refreshments, Dot Foods, General Mills, Georgia-Pacific, Procter & Gamble and Tesco.

For additional information on ORTEC's Routing & Scheduling software, please EMAIL ORTEC or call 678-329-7804.