Daily Planning with Optrak4

Optrak typically produces plans that are 10-15% more efficient than manual planning; saving you money on fuel and vehicle usage. This is achieved through the following areas:

• Optrak4’s advanced route and schedule optimiser is able to analyse and calculate thousands of permutations of operational procedures/route allocations that are possible within a solution to hit upon the most efficient way to allocate your orders and resources to the task.
• Optrak4’s integrated loading optimiser can improve vehicle utility by up to 30%, decreasing the number of vehicles required to service your customers.
• Optrak4’s optimisation drives down key overheads, such as driver times and reducing unnecessary trips/agency costs.

Optrak4 combines historical road data with pre-calibrated load/unload rates determined during implementation to accurately map how you operate. Planners import daily orders and run the optimiser to automate the route, load and schedule creation. This can then be manually edited to suit by the planner, before being pushed back to the order management system for distribution to warehouse and driver teams.

This accuracy boosts your on-time, in-full performance significantly whilst ensuring your operations match industry regulations for the WTD. The automation also significantly reduces the amount of work planners have to do to make a daily plan, allow them to focus on other tasks

Optrak4 offers a clear and visual way of understanding your operations, allowing you to make functional changes to your resource allocation to enhance your organisation. This includes facilitating multiple optimisations across the day and update the plan in real-time to ensure that the new orders and backhauls can be incorporated, boosting your efficiency further.

Optrak4 therefore assists your business in adapting to change and growth on a daily basis; providing views and actionable information. This information can be further actioned in Strategic planning, when the operator looks at making more wholesale changes to the operation, which can be seen here.

Optrak4 also provides specialist functionality for fixed-route planning; letting planners evaluate and optimise routes on a daily or weekly basis, to particular areas or sets of customers.

This is achieved by ensuring the 80% of orders that follow the same pattern are kept – essential when the driver and the customer know each other, know the time which delivery or collection will take place and what site-specific issues could arise – but the additional 20%, made up of last minute orders, or ones placed by new customers are added, with the user controlling how much the system is allowed to change a fixed trip (e.g. only add things into existing sequence, re-order but keep on vehicle, swap to another vehicle if needed).