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Food & Drink
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Vehicle tracking and fleet management , International , Benefits reported , Large operation
Glanbia plc – one of Ireland’s largest food companies - has saved 16 per cent in delivery costs by using Paragon’s computerised routing and scheduling solution. The supplier of Yoplait, Avonmore and Kilmeaden dairy produce says the savings have paid back its investment in the software within a matter of months.
The company went live with the transport optimisation solution in September 2009, allowing it to remove three trucks from its fleet. Since then a further two vehicles have been retired from service through recalibrating the routes and schedules.
The system includes Paragon Fleet Controller software for integrated satellite vehicle tracking, allowing Glanbia’s transport management team to compare actual fleet activity against the delivery plan. Using this real-world information, Glanbia cut the number of delivery routes from 28 to 23, enabling the substantial savings.
“We are very pleased with the performance of the Paragon system. Not only has it helped us reduce our delivery costs by 16%, we have improved the accuracy of our plans. This way we are saving around 3.5% a year for each vehicle and driver that we take out of the fleet operation,” says Dave Colgan, Transport Manager. “Also, with vehicle tracking communicating with the system through Fleet Controller, we can easily recalibrate the system to use actual times spent on making each delivery. Our overall delivery performance and efficiency has increased significantly with this technology.”
Glanbia uses the system to model, review and improve fixed routes for making about 2,000 deliveries a week to a wide range of customers. These include most of Ireland’s supermarkets and convenience stores.
Glanbia is developing its use of the system to enable automatic text message alerts of potential late deliveries to the transport management and customer service team, which will improve customer relations.
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