September 3, 2009 | Categories: Customers, Large operations
Major egg producer and processor, National Food Corporation, has revolutionized the way it plans and coordinates its delivery routes to customers throughout North and Midwest America and the Pacific Rim. Using routing and scheduling software from Paragon Software Systems, Inc., one person is able to plan up to 50 complex routes per day to complete over 11,000 deliveries per week. This high efficiency also enables the company to provide third party logistics services for several clients, including some very recognisable names in retail.
National Food Corporation uses a combination of Paragon Multi Depot and Integrated Fleets software. This has proven to be the ideal solution to automate planning and optimize transportation from its distribution centers and DCs. The system replaces a time consuming, manual process that was completely dependent on local DC managers.
“Paragon has revolutionized our planning and routing processes. Before we implemented the system, all of our planning was performed manually. Customers’ orders came into the office and then based on the experience and knowledge of our local DC managers, the deliveries were planned and routed geographically”, says Kevin Bookey, Transportation Manager, National Food Corporation.
“Now with Paragon, our static routes are updated constantly with the most efficient route to service the customer. On our more fluid routes, such as the Puget Sound and Portland areas, Paragon matches resources with the work load to keep us running efficiently. This way we are sure to reduce overall costs knowing that we are optimizing our routes each day,” he says.
National Food Corporation has a huge area to cover, but, with the Paragon system making light work of managing the planning process, the company can focus on servicing its clients wherever they are based.
“We service all of Washington, most of Oregon, the panhandle of Idaho, northwest Montana, and most areas of South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming. Depending on the day we run anywhere from 30 to 50 routes per day and make on average 11,000 plus deliveries per week. Each depot sends a spreadsheet containing customer and shipping orders to our planner. This is loaded into Paragon. The optimized routes are then sent to each DC manager who distributes them to the drivers,” says Bookey.
National Food Corporation is a fully integrated producer and processor of eggs and egg products. Today, headquartered in Everett, Washington, National Food Corporation operates its own feed mills, pullet farms, layer farms, processing plants and distribution centers in Washington, Oregon, Montana and South Dakota, serving markets throughout Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest and exporting to the Pacific Rim.
Notes to Editors:
Paragon Software Systems, Inc is a niche software company focusing on the design, development, implementation and support of our Paragon vehicle routing and scheduling system. Our strategies include: maintaining a 100% focus on the routing and scheduling software sector; providing outstanding support and backup to our customers, focusing on achieving customer benefits and return on investment; only promising customers what we can deliver; investing approximately one third of our annual revenue into research and software development; maintaining a sound financial basis; and maintaining our reputation.
We have over 1,500 systems installed in 33 countries worldwide – 250 of these installations are in North America and Canada. Our growing stateside customer base includes industry leaders such as Martin-Brower, McLane, CEVA, Exel Supply Chain, Life Gas, AgReliant Genetics, National Food Corporation and many more.
Our approach is to work closely with our customers to understand their short, medium and long term requirements. As a result Paragon users are reporting a wide range of benefits such as: reduced transportation costs; improved customer service; reduced delivery lead times and improved operational efficiency.
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