Industry:
Food and Drink Retail
Categories:
International , Large operation
L.R. Services has automated its distribution planning of 4,000 weekly deliveries to McDonald’s restaurants throughout France with Paragon’s map-based transport optimisation software. The software is delivering major efficiencies by reducing planning time and saving road miles for an extremely complex operation.
L.R. Services is part of the Keystone Foods group of companies. It has been the logistics provider to McDonald’s France since 1989 and is responsible for the delivery of all stock – food, packaging, cleaning materials and ancillaries – to more than 1,000 restaurants from seven regional distribution centres (DC). The company operates around 1500 routes per week from the DCs, served by a fleet of 160 articulated and rigid-bodied trucks.
“We must have visibility of the total order volumes for each week, plus the delivery frequency for each restaurant. We also need to be able to integrate different types of deliveries within available time windows; and, to do this manually would be extremely difficult. Paragon automates this planning for us by allocating the volumes to the right days and optimising the trips. This increases efficiency and reduces road miles,” says Bruno Thery, Distribution Project Manager, L.R. Services.
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