Logistics Planning

Make every decision at every level of your shipping strategy with optimization!

What is Problem?

Today's conditions create great pressure on prices and quality, while simultaneously forcing logistics planners to deliver products to their destinations as quickly as possible. Planners must make decisions that are both faster and more accurate than in the past. For example:

• Reduce logistics costs (in terms of kilometers, time, and number of assets) through better vehicle loading and routing.
• Respond immediately and correctly to events that may occur instantly (order changes, traffic congestion, vehicle breakdowns, etc.).
• Consistently and error-free meet the needs of each customer, which may vary from one another (goods acceptance times, ramp and equipment types, etc.).
• Give customers reliable delivery times and keep your promises.
• Monitor drivers' working hours and rest periods, and choose the right vehicle type for each customer and route.
• Accurately predict both current and future workload.

Undoubtedly, it becomes more difficult to successfully meet all of these conditions as companies increase their customer and order numbers, grow their warehouses and fleets, and expand their product portfolio. In this case, the following questions often start to be asked:

• How do I ensure timely delivery to the right place for high customer satisfaction?
• And how do I achieve high vehicle utilization and fuel savings at the same time?

What is Solution?

Answering these questions correctly simultaneously reduces logistics costs and increases customer service levels.

• If I could calculate the lowest cost and shortest route in seconds, complying with all the rules such as my warehouse stocks, vehicle fleet characteristics, and my customers' goods acceptance times...
• If I could keep my vehicle utilization high along the way and run my logistics with fewer vehicles...
• If I could manually intervene in my routes and loads via the map and try different scenarios.

Dijitalis enables production and logistics companies to make smart planning with its shipping planning solutions. These solutions generate optimal shipping routes by considering order, customer, and vehicle characteristics. The routes of planned shipments are shown on the map, vehicle utilization and shipment costs are reported, and each route is sent to drivers with stop order and instructions. The planner can test their own "what-if" scenarios with drag-and-drop on the map, and calculate the cost of new customer demands according to the optimum situation.

Thanks to the solutions offered by Dijitalis under the umbrella of "Logistics Planning", investment decisions (distribution strategies, locations of warehouses and distribution centers, optimization of fleet size and vehicle types) and planning of static vehicle routes are made with much greater confidence at the strategic level.

At the tactical level, capacity is balanced in line with the capacity and service constraints determined within the strategic plan in the face of seasonality, customer and industry trends.

At the operational and real-time level, daily operations that will provide the highest compliance with tactical goals are planned under the dynamic conditions of the business world (traffic, weather conditions, employees not coming to work, vehicle breakdown, last-minute order changes, etc.).