January 27, 2009 | Categories: Clients, Small/medium operations
Cornwall's St. Austell Brewery is gearing up its distribution performance with a state-of-the-art automated routing and scheduling solution from Paragon Software Systems. The South West's most successful independent brewer, retailer and wholesaler selected Paragon Multi Depot to help streamline and optimise its delivery planning. This will enable the company to reduce the number of its depots in Cornwall from four to one single super distribution centre based in St. Columb Major, with the option to utilise the other depots during peak demand. The company expects to boost customer service levels and reduce operational costs.
Implementation is under way and go-live is scheduled for third quarter 2009. During implementation, the Brewery is using Paragon Multi Depot to model optimised routes. The software is running alongside the company's manual system that simply takes customer orders and assigns them to the appropriate delivery round. With Paragon modelling the best routes, adjustments can be made to the manual system and improvements are already being seen.
"We have great expectations of Paragon and it will help us to make huge improvements as we go through implementation. Then we can look forward to switching to full automation once we have all the parameters in place, which should be at the end of the second quarter 2009," says Mike Voyzey, Logistics Director, St. Austell Brewery.
Voyzey has been tracking the routing and scheduling software market for several years and has been keeping a careful eye on Paragon's range of solutions. He recognises the flexibility of the Multi Depot product and sees the opportunity to add other capabilities further down the line.
"Paragon is undoubtedly the market leader. The company has a high profile at logistics events and has a wide range of customers, including other brewers. We are very pleased with the progress we are making and the Paragon team is doing everything we ask," concluded Voyzey.
Notes to Editors:
Paragon Software Systems is a market leader in transport optimisation with over 1,500 routing and scheduling systems installed in more than 33 countries. Paragon helps companies reduce transport costs by up to 20 per cent through more efficient deployment of vehicles and drivers. Headquartered in Dorking, UK and with US offices in Dallas, Paragon is a respected pioneer in routing and scheduling with over 30 years of know-how.
Paragon is employed by transport operations ranging from just 10 vehicles at a single site to hundreds of vehicles operating from several sites. The system is used for routing and scheduling optimisation; managing transport resources; strategic planning; scheduling home deliveries continuously as orders are being confirmed; and managing the execution of the transport plan in real time using vehicle tracking technology.
Paragon assists many leading companies with their logistics including ASDA, Royal Mail Group, Harrods, Sainsbury's, AB Agri, CEVA Logistics, Wincanton, DHL Exel, Norbert Dentressangle, Linde, Fuller's, John Lewis, Tesco, Keystone Distribution, Raleigh and many others.
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