The Problem with Traditional Systems
Managing logistics is tough and stressful. You can produce a beautiful plan, but as soon as it's created it's out of date. Why ?
Because all parameters are changing all the time: traffic conditions, truck and driver availability, customer demand, operational disruption.
The problem with traditional logistics solutions: they cut up the end-to-end process, leaving a landscape of fragmented and sub-optimised components that don't work in unison. Every process hand-off point is a point of process failure. Granted, advanced logistics optimisers produce great solutions, but they never solve 100% of the problem, leaving the planning team with a big dilemma: manually fit in those (heavily contrained) unscheduled orders, or ditch the whole solution and do it manually ?
Same applies to execution management: great if you can track your trucks and monitor progress, but can you dynamically break up your plan to slot in urgent orders or respond to a truck breakdown, when the route is already half completed ?
Simply put: traditional systems are not flexible or smart enough to accommodate continuous change in the most efficient way. That's why we deliver the ROUTiLOGIX solution !
A few stimulation questions:
- Are you happy with your optimiser results and do your planners trust it ?
- Can you track your execution progress in real time ?
- Are your drivers happy with their routes ?
- Can you quickly and smartly respond to change ?
- Do you feel in total control of all movements and events ?