The combined effect of an efficient, scalable and highly visible system means companies can differentiate themselves in a very competitive market through innovative service provision that opens up new revenue streams and opportunities for growth.

Central Planning – solving the intricate puzzle

When the goal is to centralise highly complex and dynamic planning, while simultaneously optimising vehicle utilization with real-time operational visibility, then only state-of-the-art intelligent optimisation technology can handle the complexity of multiple cargo and vehicle types across multiple locations.

Local Planning

This form of planning relies on the geographical, customer and product knowledge of the individual planners at these locations – the more complex the logistics, the more senior the planner required.

This reliance brings its own risks and challenges - business can be severely impacted by the absence of just one of these key players. And when you don’t have a view of the plan and operation as a whole, efficiency and customer service can easily be hampered.

Intelligent Optimisation: Centralised and Dynamic

Central planning can very effectively mitigate those risks. With true visibility of the “big picture”, Intelligent Optimisation can support better operational decision making end-to-end – even at large-scale international networks such as the Wallenborn operation.

The right IO solution needs to seamlessly handle complexity – not just very high numbers of orders, vehicles and sites, but also the ability to integrate variables, restrictions and dynamics into commercially viable plans – and it has to do it in real-time.