Industry:
Food and Drink Retail
Categories:
Operational routing and scheduling , Large operation
Paragon is playing a central role in Safeway’s revolutionary new integrated transport system, driving up productivity throughout the vast national operation delivering 10 million cases to over 480 stores every week. As well as enabling the change from fixed routes to live daily scheduling, Paragon’s Multi User and Integrated Fleets software provides efficient scheduling which reduces empty running through the integrated planning of primary and secondary fleets at regional level – a step expected to deliver seven figure cost savings.
Having set out to improve efficiency in what is one of the UK’s most complex grocery supply chains, Safeway has, with the help of Wincanton, re-engineered its entire transport management system. The new system incorporates yard management, resource allocation and vehicle tracking systems, with Paragon providing the all-important integrated routing and scheduling function.
Six Paragon Integrated Fleets systems are networked with depot-based Multi User Paragon terminals to plan and monitor Safeway's combined primary and secondary operations delivering 22,000 different fresh, chilled and frozen foods, non-foods and ambient products. At regional level, this configuration gives Paragon a high level view of movements for multiple depots, warehouses, suppliers and consolidation centres, enabling the automatic routing of store deliveries with supplier collections, inter-depot movements and recycling collections. The inter-working of the depot-based fleets generates routes with efficient backloads, which increases asset utilisation, improves productivity and reduces empty mileage across the country.
At local level, meanwhile, networked Paragon Multi User terminals show the schedules to users at 15 regional distribution centres so they can bring their knowledge to bear, making adjustments in response to local conditions. Through the addition of Paragon’s Fleet Controller option, these depot-based systems will also receive real time information from Qualcomm’s in-cab technology, ensuring that variations between the predicted and actual plans – such as delays – can be highlighted immediately and dealt with before they create major problems.
With Paragon now running live in all six regions, savings of millions of pounds are forecast. As Safeway Supply Chain Director, Mark Aylwin says, "We are always looking at ways we can make our supply chain more efficient and this new system is a major advance. The new computerised system will dramatically reduce the number of empty vehicles on the road, which in turn will provide us with significant cost savings to our supply chain right from the start of its integration."
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