Automotive
Inbound Logistics (3PL/4PL)
Whether you want to plan supplies to plants, distribution platforms or warehouses, with your own assets or outsourced, Quintiq can help you optimize your JIT (Just in Time) or JIS (Just in Sequence) inbound logistics at optimal cost.
Quintiq delivers a dynamic planning and visibility solution suite for shared carrier networks, enabling you to respond rapidly to opportunities and challenges as they occur. It supports real-time consolidation of part loads with full loads and generates optimal transport plans for return loads and round-trips, simultaneously taking into account considerations such as revenue and cost requirements, available resources, delivery windows, load compatibility and customer priorities.
Quintiq additionally offers strong network optimization functionalities, capable of managing automatic, multi-modal planning, and offering full visibility through air-, sea- and land networks. It also generates scenario analyses, sufficient to support your bid teams.
Finished Vehicle Logistics
Quintiq can support planners of Finished Vehicle Logistics (FVL) providers in optimizing their planning of LOTS (groups of cars), provide intelligent suggestions to configure best car/trailer combinations depending on costs and service levels, manage disturbances in real-time and create new plans on-the-fly, schedule value added services and propagate disturbances throughout the supply chain (delay on ‘release’ time of a car or delay in vessel schedule has impact on other Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) so planners must be alerted). Thus Quintiq offers an innovative planning solution to reduce significant costs, increase net profit margin and execute profitable contracts. On Tactical level, What-if scenarios can be created in Quintiq in order to evaluate for instance new potential contracts or tenders on their profitability and check for available capacity.
Intermodal Planning and Dispatch
Intermodal transport is very actual today. Reasons are growing demand for transport, improved service of intermodal service providers and issues with road transport like shortage of drivers and capacity, increasing congestion and costs (labor/fuel/carbon footprint). Therefore optimization of transport systems is necessary not only to comply with changing market conditions but also to secure business continuity or gain new contracts.
Intermodal transport is in the current market often an option if cost price is lower than costs of unimodal transport. Extra costs for handling, pre- and after transport are mostly compensated on longer tracks by lower transport costs of the main track.
Quintiq offers an integrated intermodal transport planning solution enabling shipping companies to optimize the transport flows of their bookings at optimal (combined) modality, capacity and cost while respecting the required service levels of the client.
Quintiq users (planners, sales agents, management, customers) can see on intuitive screens for every single booking on-the-fly and in real-time all possible combinations of modalities (at leg level) at different costs and service levels to transport the booking according to SLA. The system can optimize all bookings together in order to find the global optimum at optimal cost, including empty repositioning transports.
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Advanced Planning Scheduling & Supply Chain Solutions for Automotive Logistics
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Logistics Leaders Congress 2008
The Logistics Leaders Congress 2008 will bring together senior executives from across the automotive industry. Quintiq and AbOvo are jointly participating at this congress.
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