The pandemic has impeded distribution operations to an unpresented degree. Delivery costs have skyrocketed due to driver shortages, cost of new equipment, raw materials, fuel, maintenance and disruptions in established routines. The pressure is on to ensure you operate efficiently and effectively to react to these major changes in the entire distribution chain.
Distributors utilizing older technology are often reluctant to shift away from static routes, which were not designed for the changes in today’s delivery landscape. Outdated technology struggles to adjust routes, resulting in late deliveries, poor visibility and lost productivity. Now it’s critical to be proactive – and to utilize dynamic planning solutions as opposed to traditional static and master route planning. Companies who instantly pivoted business models – such as by adding business-to-customer selling like this food distributor – not only survived but are seeing record earnings.
State-of-the-art routing solutions handle everything from on-demand requests to dynamic rescheduling or cancellation of tasks – critical functions needed for dispatch managers and drivers. Easy integration ensures optimal delivery scenarios by quickly determining the best plans while handling real-time requests and other dynamic modifications on the fly.
Advanced routing technology produces greater productivity and results for companies and customers while enabling managers to realize greater ROI by saving time and money as well as increasing efficiency. They can also use data analytics to better strategize, overcome bottlenecks on the road and integrate figures from any area of the business (such as average stops per route) to make corrective actions. That data offers insights on how to reduce or often avoid delivery delays and extra costs.
From a driver’s perspective, analytics, not guess-work, determines how to add more stops in a shorter amount of time. Driver efficiency increases since they now know how they performed against the plan, which creates potential to earn more money for hitting their delivery goals. Performance-based compensation is a tactic more companies use to hire more and better-experienced drivers.
A flexible and robust routing and delivery solution can also handle different types of distribution operations, including beverage and foodservice distribution, direct store delivery, retail, home delivery, and business services. ORTEC’s proven methodology provides an end-to-end planning and distribution solution while easily integrating into customers’ systems – in as little as 2 months or less. ORTEC’s advanced reporting capabilities provide operational visibility as well as routing and advanced load building capabilities.
These solutions are fueled with the latest in analytics software, so your operational and tactical decisions will be based on data, not opinions. Advanced analytics helps managers and drivers be more efficient and allows companies to encourage a continuous improvement culture. You get instant visibility into performance every day and identify which areas are thriving and which need to improve.
With this technology and more than 40 years of supply chain/delivery expertise and commitment to successful implementation for unparalleled results, your company can depend on ORTEC for the right solutions and results.
Be proactive in your search for a better solution to meet and successfully manage higher demand, increased delivery costs and driver shortages. Now is the time to upgrade your routing solution.
