Tactical Routing
Tactical route planning is a crucial element to deal with growing complexity. The landscape you operate in is changing all the time. It is important to reflect and prepare for changes and challenges ahead. From the impact of cost increases, to introducing other vehicle types, winning a tender, opening a new depot to deliver from, or balancing the workload…; all of these changes impact how you plan and execute your routes. ORTEC Tactical Routing helps you evaluate many different scenarios and be prepared for a cost effective and efficient daily operation.
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Industries:
Retail & Wholesale, Transportation & Storage
Create regional or long-term plans
Building on four decades of experience in logistics, ORTEC Tactical Routing helps you answer questions like: how do I ensure my routes are planned with optimal efficiency? What are the optimal delivery dates and times for my customers? How do changes impact my planning, such as rapid growth in delivery frequency or orders? How can I measure the benefits of potential collaborations with other parties?
Generate master plans for different regions or plan for a longer period, so you can create well-balanced distribution and collection zones. Cluster deliveries into routes and evenly divide workloads per day and per week to reach a high level of efficiency.
The system takes a broad range of factors into account, such as vehicle capacity and permitted vehicle types, delivery times, time between deliveries, opening hours, working hours, overtime and delivery agreements. State-of-the-art maps offer immediate insight into customer locations and schedules. Scenario analyses help you evaluate the potential impact of changes.
How you benefit
Using optimization solutions, ORTEC Tactical Routing helps you:
- Reflect and be prepared
Augment planning decisions with optimization and scenario planning.
ORTEC Tactical Routing solves complex problems in less time by comparing various scenarios. The scenario analysis functionality offers a crucial advantage in any key decision-making process. It helps you model and anticipate how changes can impact your key objectives. - Find the perfect balance
ORTEC Tactical Routing helps you balance out customer needs, reliable delivery times, drivers’ workload, required truck capacity, costs, mileages/kilometers and CO2. - Scenario planning gives you control
Analyze scenarios about different delivery models and review how order profiles can improve both customer service and costs. For example, you can analyze the effect of updated order windows and delivery frequency, see the impact of new sales orders, or assess if a complementary package reduces the cost per delivery as a whole.
