ROUTE OPTIMISATION AND THE POTENTIAL IT OFFERS

It is difficult to plan the optimal route. adesso therefore takes a holistic approach to your transport processes and provides you with the best support possible in the form of IT solutions sourced from all possible vendors. This means you can optimally plan your routes at the push of a button.

Rising raw material prices and a palpable shortage of skilled workers are placing enormous strains on the entire transport and logistics industry. This might initially seem like a problem with no solution. How can you achieve greater transparency, improve on-time delivery rates and handle a growing number of special requests from customers if, at the same time, there are fewer employees available to you and costs across all sectors of the logistics industry are reaching record levels?

The answer is obvious: you have to make more efficient use of the resources available. We are happy to support you in achieving this goal. We take a holistic approach to your transport processes, provide top-notch support in the form of IT solutions and are vendor-neutral. Successful solutions require a holistic consulting approach. adesso boasts extensive technical knowledge, industry expertise and experience in logistics-based IT projects. Our team consists of consultants who come directly from the field of transport logistics as well as IT specialists with many years of experience in the logistics industry. Drawing on their extensive knowledge of dynamic route optimisation, our consultants have the necessary experience to identify and improve the efficiency of your processes.

Route planning optimisation can tap individual potentials and build on this with the help of AI and machine learning.

These challenges can be overcome through optimal route planning. This involves a complex, time-consuming and unique puzzle that can most likely not be solved without technology-driven optimisation processes. Managers have to achieve a balance, be it between the size of the company’s fleet, the personnel resources available or driving and rest periods. In addition, the logistical processes at companies are now highly interlinked. Being reliant on many different partners – and thus on different sources of information – makes everything more complicated. People who deal with this issue on a daily basis are experts in planning. However, it would be difficult to impossible for them to fully grasp the chain of relationships. Plus, if such intricate planning knowledge is held by individual employees, this entails risks of its own.

Scheduling algorithms are of little help here. Although they do a good job of arranging a sequence of destinations based on one defined criterion, they fail to consider other criteria such as the drive times of the vehicle operator. It is however essential to take into account general conditions such as driving and rest periods as well as conditions specific to the customer like personnel resources.

Work with adesso to optimise your planning

Optimising routes to best meet the individual needs of your company is a major step forward. Planning your routes in this way takes into account other aspects that are relevant in order for you to optimise how your orders are coordinated. We would be happy to support you here.

Most companies hold vast stores of data. However, this is often scattered throughout the company, meaning it is very difficult to get a good general view overall. As a result, it oftentimes goes unused. In the approach we take, we begin by getting an overview of what data you have at your company. We ask questions like what benefits can be gained from the data and what additional data would need to be collected in order to logically plan your routes. adesso identifies what steps create bottlenecks, where potential for optimisation exists and how your company can find a healthy balance between the environment and internal financial considerations in its planning activities. We consider these and other issues when creating a recommendation for action for you. We would be happy to plug your questions about optimisation into a mathematical model that includes all constraints, dependencies and planning goals of your company.

Benefits for you:

• You receive route plans that are ready for use at the touch of a button.
• You use your existing resources more efficiently thanks to target-optimised planning.
• You save money, gain flexibility and improve customer satisfaction.

adesso boasts extensive technical knowledge, vast industry expertise and many years of experience in logistics-based IT projects. Our team consists of consultants who come directly from the field of transport logistics as well as IT experts with many years of experience in the logistics industry. Drawing on their extensive knowledge of dynamic route optimisation, our consultants have the necessary experience to identify and exploit the potential of your processes.