Strategic Planning with Optrak4
Taking historical order and site data as the basis, planners and analysts can simulate strategic scenarios across time periods to review delivery patterns, existing fixed routes and fleet mix to find solutions that offer up to 40% saving on current operations.
IMPROVING YOUR DISTRIBUTION
Delivery Frequency
Is it cost-efficient to be delivering to customers in this pattern? What if I moved weekly drops from Tuesday to Thursday? What if I was able to top up ‘keep-fill’ units at 30% remaining capacity instead of 60%?
Optrak4 lets planners simulate changes to their delivery patterns for recurring customers to evaluate consolidation of the number of long-distance/out-of-region delivery drops that occur across the week and the value of renegotiating with the customer for a different schedule.
For industries that use top-up or keep-fill containers for delivery (oil or gas), or volume-limit containers for collection (waste), Optrak4 could be used to determine the monetary value of later deliveries and the potential benefits of adding forecasting.
Cost to Serve Analysis
How much will a new customer cost to take on? Which of my customers are a net cost on my distribution network? What should I quote for a piece of work?
Optrak4 can provide an invaluable tool for your analysts in determining the cost of serving either new or existing customers. By entering historical data and assigning either known or estimated costs and profits to the customer, Optrak4 will calculate and report on the expense of servicing that customer. New customers can also be assessed against historical routes to see what impact they would have had.
Overhead Consolidation
Are my depots in the right place? Can I re-optimise existing orders to a different depot? Am I using more vehicles than I should be? Can I change delivery patterns to reduce the number of vehicles I need on the road?
Optrak4 gives analysts and planners the ability to simulate multiple scenario variables on their own data; adding dummy elements like depots and outbases, or moving order affiliation between existing ones, to model alternate operational set-ups and provide actions for reconciliation and consolidation.
Business Expansion
Can I add another 20 customers in that particular region? Do I have the vehicular and delivery capacity to meet SLAs? As a 3PL, can I afford to take on these new customers?
Optrak4 provides quick and easy processes to add new vehicles with different capabilities, turn on and off sets of vehicles, reassign them to different depots or change driver working hours, giving planners the ability to assess the impact on taking on new work from an internal operations standpoint. Paired with a cost-to-serve analysis, this lets organisations de-risk their expansion strategy from a distribution perspective.
Carrier Assignment
What orders should I regularly assign to 3rd party carriers? Are there regions we deliver to that could be better outsourced? Should I bring more business in-house, and what opportunities should I pursue to make that more cost-efficient?
Optrak4 allows analysts to assess the carrier policy of their organisation; putting indicative costs down to determine either the rates it should set, or the price it should be seeking to negotiate. Historical data and patterns can be assessed to identify regions that could be outsourced or brought in house, depending on the profitability.
Acquisition Reconciliation
How do I integrate a newly acquired business into my operations? How do we reconcile two fleets to deliver to one consolidated customer base? Which areas are over serviced by depots and vehicles?
Optrak4 offers incredible modelling potential for these activities; the most successful Optrak Consultancy projects have focused on these very activities, including the consolidation of a 400 vehicle fleet to an 180 vehicle one, with a similar reduction in necessary depots. Working with Optrak specialists, analysts can drive significant savings from Day 1 of an acquisition.
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