Transportation and logistics planning for distribution fleets
If you manage a transportation and logistics operation, our routing and scheduling software solutions can help you make strategic and tactical decisions to reduce your operating costs.
Using the software to analyze a typical week of delivery routes and then running comparisons to test alternative options, such as truck sizes, driver shifts, DC locations or time window options, you can quickly find out which decisions will give you the best transportation cost savings.
For example, the Paragon software can identify the cost benefits of:
- combining pick-ups into your delivery routes
- double-dispatching your trucks
- introducing tighter or wider delivery windows
- using smaller or larger trucks
- changing DC locations
- allocating different customers to different DCs.
For each scenario it calculates optimized routes and schedules, and outputs the total fleet resources, miles, drivers' hours, CO2 emissions and transportation costs so that you can make cost-based decisions.
We offer a choice of advanced logistics software solutions designed for transportation operations ranging from 20 trucks at one DC to hundreds of trucks at several DCs. As well as our routing and scheduling optimizers, we also provide solutions for analyzing DC networks, optimizing driver territories and modeling multi-frequency deliveries.
Transportation planning for 3PL business development
For 3PLs bidding for new logistics contracts, Paragon's logistics planning software enables you to design cost effective transportation solutions for your customers. Paragon is well established in this industry, where it is used on the global stage by industry leaders like DHL Exel and CEVA Logistics to support their logistics proposals.
Once you have set up a few weeks of delivery information in the Paragon software, you can automatically create a set of transportation routes and schedules to fulfill your customer's delivery requirements. You can then add value by evaluating alternative options and proposing alternative solutions - all backed up by Paragon's detailed transportation modeling. For example, you could look at different fleet mix, service levels, combining deliveries and pickups, drivers' shifts and DC options. In each case, the software determines the overall time, mileage, cost and truck numbers required enabling you to make clear cost-based comparisons.
Relevant Products
- Paragon Fastnet - strategic logistics planning software for designing DC networks and allocating customers
- Paragon Territory Optimizer - map-based planning software that creates efficient geographic zones that balance driver workload
- Paragon Multi Period Planner - additional software module for scheduling stops with multiple frequencies over 1-6 weeks
