TERRITORY CREATION/ ROUTE PLANNING
Be it in-house or out-sourced, the delivery of goods and services needs to be quick and has to be as cost effective as possible. We are experienced at helping organisations to cut delivery costs without compromising on service levels.
There are often many factors to take into consideration for the vehicle distribution, not least a complex network of distribution hubs, different products (size, weight,) to be shipped and a variety of vehicles used to provide the service. All of this coupled with the different levels of service options provided to the customer.
Geoplan solutions can take into consideration all the above factors and provide the end user with a clear schedule of the number of vehicles required to fulfil the number of deliveries needed, using the least amount of resource and therefore cost.
Example: Leading UK & European Home Improvement and Garden Centre Retailer.
Problem: The client invests heavily in the delivery planning process and need to reduce costs, travelling time and unnecessary journeys.
Solution: Delivery Optimisation Solution.
Benefits:
- A solution that delivers cost savings of upwards of £500K per annum.
- Enables the user to Optimise based on total load (weight) of each van and store location from where order taken
- Ability to add manual 'pick ups'
- Export optimised territories into a journey planning schedule to generate efficient routes for each individual van
- Results exported as report schedules for distribution to van drivers - digital or hard copy.
Products Used: Geoplan Delivery Optimisation Solution.
Investment: £40K - £150K, depending upon number of users.
Example: TDG Limited.
Problem: How to optimise the current delivery operation, taking into account weight (tonnage) and outbase locations. The process needed to deliver cost savings by reducing areas of waste in the existing set-up.
Solution: Geoplan GeoAnalyser, with standalone MapViewer.
Benefits:
- Understand the current distribution network and the impact of future plans through scenario planning.
- Immediate results and return on investment, enabling calculated and well justified recommendations and the creation of accurate business cases.
- The cost savings identified for the first client project were in the region of £500K, with future projections around the £2million mark.
- Links to TDG databases and facilitates calculations using a range of datasets.
Products used: Geoplan GeoAnalyser and Geoplan MapViewer to provide outputs to end users in a simple, read-only format.
Investment: GeoAnalyser - Year one circa £20,000 and approximately £5,000 for subsequent years. MapViewer - Year one circa - £4,000 and £99 per seat, per annum thereafter.
Example: Rhys Davies Freight logistics.
Problem: Rhys Davies currently operates out of 6 nationwide depots and they needed to be able to create and visualise the coverage of each depot and delivery patterns of each of the depots. Previously, this information was held in raw data format and the Management Team and individual depots struggled to interpret this information. It was also very difficult for the organisation to be able to recommend customers to their nearest depot location.
Benefits:
- Enables accurate costing for new contracts, taking into account the coverage and distribution required.
- Easy creation of depot maps on a weekly basis
- Maps and reports created and circulated to the Management Team.
Product used: Geoplan GeoAnalyser
Investment: Year one circa £20,000 and approximately £2,000 for subsequent years.
Example: Sole UK Distributor for High Quality Supermarket Chain.
Problem: The client needed to reduce their number of distribution zones by 75%, thus creating a network of fewer zones but with larger workloads. This re-structure needed to take account of fleet size, human resource capacity and assets such as fleet size and loading bays. An important factor for consideration was also that the new delivery zones needed to consider natural geographic boundaries.
Benefits:
- Enables the real-time creation of balanced delivery zones, taking into account customer demand and essential Ocado variables.
- Use of one system to automatically re-optimise zones to a target demand level specified by the user. System draws data from source system.
- Fully automated but enables the user to make manual adjustments and optimises based on drivetime.
- User can produce an in-depth and summary report of the changes made.
Product used: Geoplan Delivery Zone Optimisation Tool
Investment: In the region of £35K - £40K Year 1, and c. £5K per annum subsequent years.
