Benefits

Benefits reported by Paragon users

Paragon's advanced routing and scheduling optimisation solutions have been developed specifically for the transport industry and have been proven to help companies:

• Reduce transport costs by up to 20% - by cutting mileage and improving driver and vehicle utilisation
• Improve customer service
• Cut carbon emissions
• Maintain efficiency of transport resources during execution
• Increase control of transport through better management reporting
• Reduce delivery lead times
• Be more responsive to customer demands
• Improve strategic decision making
• Reduce administration costs
• Underpin strategic growth objectives

Below are specific examples of benefits reported by Paragon users:

Tesco

• 150, 000 miles saved each week
• Thousands of tons of CO₂ saved each year

Anglian Water

• $160,000 per year transportation cost savings
• Planning time halved
• Sub-contract work reduced by up to 40%
• Greater visibility enables efficient response to emergency requirements
• Efficiency improvements confirmed value of in-house distribution

Argos Direct

• Improved miles per drop – 15,000 deliveries carried out each day
• Improved hours per drop
• Improved truck utilization – 550 home delivery trucks, 30 DCs
• Argos Direct is on track to achieve a seven month payback on its investment

Blackheath Products

• 20% cut in mileage

Fine Lady Bakeries

• Fleet reduced by 10%

Gist

• 10% cut in transportation costs

Hallgarten

• 15% improvement in truck utilization

Harrods

• 15% cut in transportation costs
• Ability to offer one hour time windows for home delivery

Instarmac

• 12% cut in transportation cost
• Delivery lead times almost halved
• Improved visibility

Parcelforce Worldwide

• 20% increase in driver productivity

Raleigh

• 30% cut in order lead time
• 50% reduction in planning time
• Cut mundane admin tasks
• Increased truck fill
• Smoothed the pre-weekend peak, reducing warehouse overtime and carrier costs

TRACKER Network

• 22% fuel cost saving
• Offering tighter time windows while keeping costs under control
• Strategically modeling customer selection patterns to ensure service offerings are correct

United Dairy Farmers

• 10% increase in truck utilization

WF Electrical

• More efficient use of driver time
• Improved customer service

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We use Paragon software as a corporate standard for modelling and optimisation of our operations. It helps us design innovative solutions and manage them efficiently and cost-effectively. In our view it's the market leader for supply chain modelling and optimisation.
John Court - IT Director