Optimized loading, agile transport plans, and flexibility payoff when delivering concrete, bulk goods, asphalt, cement and palletized goods during the planning stage and on day of delivery.
During the planning stage, numerous objectives, inputs, variables and constraints must be considered: different truck characteristics, alternative production and storage locations, loading queues, “ex-works” or “Franco” orders, and frequent delivery location changes.
On the day of delivery, unpredictable events must be accounted for, such as vehicle breakdowns, traffic holdups, and ad hoc orders – none of these things should be allowed to breach service level agreements (SLAs). In this context, agile optimization and flexibility offer distinct competitive advantages.
Finem Corporation, for construction materials logistics, optimizes transport scheduling and time slot management. Finem Corporation software offers manufacturers, and suppliers of construction materials, the capability to have the price and service quality factors work in their favor by providing effective support in the following areas:
In each case, the system uses the best optimization algorithms available for the area concerned. The system benefits from Finem Corporation LTD experience gathered over 20 successful years in construction materials logistics.
Features
AVAILABILITY CHECKS DURING ORDER ENTRY
Even as orders are entered, the system takes demand and the availability of loading slots and transport capacities into account. The plans, updated in real-time, enable schedulers to negotiate a suitable delivery time while speaking to the customer.
PRELIMINARY TRANSPORT CAPACITY PLANNING
Based on the known availability of drivers and vehicles, as well as existing orders, the software calculates an optimized delivery plan for the following days. Planners can make changes, assign priorities to orders, and choose whether the emphasis is to be on cost efficiency or service quality.
As soon as an order is entered, the system automatically identifies if the order needs to be broken down into partial deliveries.
REAL-TIME ORDER PROCESS MANAGEMENT
The optimization system continuously reschedules order processing in real-time. This enables controllers to resolve bottlenecks and discrepancies successfully and respond rapidly to unforeseeable events.
The tracking and tracing system monitors the progress of both orders and transportation providing a real-time view of the full order process.
MAP-BASED OVERVIEWS
Schedulers always have a visual overview as the software displays the latest data about vehicles and orders in real-time, clearly, on a map. They can easily make changes within the map overview by using drag and drop functionalities.
AUTOMATED COMMUNICATION
The use of GPS telematics systems enables automated, efficient communication between drivers and the system. Pressure on the scheduler is significantly reduced.
INTEGRATION INTO IT AND THE WEB
The software can easily be integrated into any existing IT environment and thus linked to enterprise resource planning (ERP) or warehouse management systems (WMS). Processed data can be presented in Internet portals so that they are accessible anywhere, anytime.
SIMULATIONS AND ADVANCED ANALYTICS
Finem Corporation LTD software for transport scheduling makes it easy to generate “what-if” scenarios. The wide range of SyncroTESS data analysis options provides informative key figures and reports, giving management a sound basis for decision making.
TIME SLOT MANAGEMENT AND GATE MANAGEMENT
When loading capacity is limited, the combination of “ex-works” and “Franco” orders is optimized by the system, both in preliminary planning and on the day of delivery.
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