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As a manufacturer, you need to deliver all types of products (SKUs) with their own delivery and demand patterns to your customers, such as retailers or other manufacturers. How do you determine the right amount of each product to deliver at a specific moment in time, maximizing load utilization and minimizing handling time, while also meeting requirements like transport restrictions, demand, inventory levels, and service agreements? Add to that the added complexity of customer requirements, warehouse picking and loading strategies.
In this article, we'll explore the opportunities to create shipments with high load fill through order optimization and the significant benefits it brings. By doing so, you can revolutionize your shipping policy to your customers. Although optimizing on demand level may not be feasible for all your customers, you can start by implementing it internally for inter-company replenishments.
An article by Goos Kant, Managing Partner at ORTEC and Professor of Logistic Optimization.
On April 7th ORTEC hosted the Global Parcel Delivery webinar: How to engage my parcel delivery drivers using optimization?
Are you in the postal, parcel and express business? Watch this webinar and learn about the latest trends in parcel delivery, and how optimization can help to engage your parcel delivery drivers!
ORTEC Global Parcel Delivery Webinar 2022
This webinar took place on April 7th, 2022. You can watch the webinar below.
ORTEC, University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Dimitris Bertsimas of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launch Analytics for a Better World Institute (ABW), an initiative that brings together the brightest minds to pursue a special mission: applying analytics together with NGOs, the public sector, and non-profit organizations to make an impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Many organizations use SAP ERP to manage replenishment and customer orders. Typically, they extend SAP ERP with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) for forecasting purposes, and SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) to plan freight units and freight orders. Often, they also use the Transport Load Builder (TLB) module (part of APO), which builds transportation loads based on pre-defined parameters such as weight and volume.
By Dick Zijlstra, Director of Value Realization and Senior Account Manager at ORTEC
“In the past, our people focused their attention on electricity, before evolving to electricity and gas. Now, we work on the entire energy system, including hydrogen and heat.”
From the back office of the country’s energy system to a knowledge owner in energy: Stedin is transforming at a breakneck pace. “In the few years that I have been working at Stedin, I have seen investments double in size.” Although grid operators play a major role in the energy transition, Peters is quick to stress that it will require a collective effort. “Everyone will experience the added value we can contribute to the energy transition, but we are keenly aware that, as a grid operator, we could never do it alone.”
Interview with David Peters, Chief Transition Officer at Stedin Group
The irreplaceable value of people in successfully embarking on a digital transformation is widely recognized by top management. However, it is also no secret that even the world’s top organizations are barely able to meet their needs for talent. The problem feels to be bigger than any company: the continuously increasing pace of technological change has led the way to an undeniable worldwide skills gap. In a relentless attempt to pin down this pain point, organizations are increasingly turning their focus inward. Developing talent from the inside does not only allow organizations to become less dependent of the external environment, but also to up- or reskill their current workforce while safeguarding existing domain knowledge, working experience and culture: values that are irreplaceable by new digital talent.
This article is part of the Five Components of a Holistic Digital Strategy series, with talent development as one of the five components. It's powered by Robert Monné, Manager of the Analytics Academy: a cooperation between University of Amsterdam and ORTEC.
ORTEC Germany and the transport management solution provider Transporeon established a strategic cooperation. The #TEC Magazine editorial team asked the chief executives of both companies for an interview about the benefits of the cooperation and the advantages for customers.
To reflect on the year 2021 and inspire you, we share our best insights of the year: our top 10 best read articles. Happy reading!