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
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Improve customer service
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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:
- 150, 000 miles saved each week
- Thousands of tonnes of CO2 saved each year
- £800,000 annual transport cost reduction
- Increased delivery reliability, consistently meeting promised delivery times
- Warehouse cost savings of 5.6%
- Improved customer service - meeting time windows more reliably
- Increased vehicle efficiency
- Reduced sub-contractor costs
- Dramatic cut in planning administration
- Order cycle reduced by 2 weeks
- Planning time reduced from 30 hours to 5 hours per week
- Cut out paperwork
- £100,000 per year transport 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
- Improved miles per drop – 15,000 deliveries carried out each day
- Improved hours per drop
- Improved vehicle utilisation – 550 home delivery vehicles, 30 UK depots
- Argos Direct is on track to achieve a seven month payback on its investment
- Improved route efficiency
- 14% reduction in fleet size
- £90,000 annual transport cost reduction
- £100,000 per year transport 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
- 10% cut in transport costs
- Improved real time customer service
- Reduced the risk of late-running
- Minute-by-minute visibility of how each vehicle is performing against the plan
- 15% improvement in vehicle utilisation
- More efficient home delivery planning; using Paragon software to offer tighter customer time windows with confidence
- On target for 20% fleet saving
- 12% cut in transport cost
- Delivery lead times almost halved
- Improved visibility
- 8% improvement in vehicle utilisation
- Faster more reliable planning of national home deliveries
- Increased service engineer efficiency
- Improved route planning
- Reduction in planning time and resources
- Saving "time, money and miles"
- 20% increase in driver productivity
- On target for £200,000 annual savings
- 30% cut in order lead time
- 50% reduction in planning time
- Cut mundane admin tasks
- Increased vehicle fill
- Smoothed the pre-weekend peak, reducing warehouse overtime and carrier costs
- Fleet costs reduced by 7%
- Payback in less than 6 months
- 22% fuel cost saving
- Offering tighter time windows whilst keeping costs under control
- Strategically modelling customer selection patterns to ensure service offerings are correct
- 10% increase in vehicle utilisation
- More efficient use of driver time
- Improved customer service
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