Automotive Logistics
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.
Quintiq Solutions for the Automotive Industry
Quintiq offers dynamic, real-time planning, scheduling and optimization solutions for vehicle distribution, parts consolidation, network planning, multi-PDI scheduling, voyage planning and yard operations, all based on organization-specific business rules and constraints. The Quintiq Advanced Planning & Scheduling and Supply Chain Optimization solutions for Automotive Logistics are uniquely capable of supporting all your planning needs, including multimodal resources, routes, terminals, yards, PDI services and supply chain integration planning – no matter how large or complex your organization. Leveraging innovative technology and a deep knowledge of automotive logistics, Quintiq simultaneously evaluates the real cost trade-offs between various mode, route, consolidation and carrier combinations against the lowest cost alternative. With Quintiq you can optimize your network and maximize capacity by consolidating your inbound logistics flows, efficiently distributing outbound loads, creating reliable transportation plans and managing PDI services while eliminating costly buffers.