Paragon Multi Period Planner

Transport planning for efficient multiple frequency deliveries

Multi Period Planner is a strategic planning tool which enables the Paragon system to plan a period of between 1 and 6 weeks, while taking account of acceptable delivery patterns and customer delivery frequencies ranging from daily to monthly.

With Paragon Multi Period Planner you can:

• Allocate multiple deliveries to days, balancing the overall distribution workload in line with customers' required delivery profiles
• Rationalise fixed routes periodically in operations with multiple delivery frequencies
• Reduce transport costs, improve driver productivity and reduce overall mileage as a result of more efficient planning

The software allocates multiple deliveries to days, balancing the overall distribution workload across the period, while clustering calls geographically and ensuring the required gap between subsequent deliveries to the same customer is maintained. Paragon then calculates detailed routes and schedules across the whole period.

Multi Period Planner is in widespread use in a range of industry sectors, including third party logistics and retail where the system enables the planning of effective delivery patterns for fixed route schedules to be developed rapidly.