Logistics Planner
Transportation is a complicated logistical challenge for most metal companies. Numerous factors must be taken into consideration concurrently, including shipment costs, desired customer service levels, utilization, whether to charter resources, whether to cross-dock and expected return loads. In addition, flexibility and fast reaction times are essential to meet customers’ demands for immediate response, while dealing with the last minute changes, rush orders and unexpected disturbances that plague transportation.
Optimal Logistics Planning and Support
Regardless of whether your business model is based on managing 3rd party carriers or your own resources, Quintiq has extensive experience in supporting transportation logistics. Quintiq helps you make critical logistical decisions by calculating all the possible consequences of a given decision, showing the best available options and creating an opportune plan based on pre-defined criteria.
Integrated Planning Levels
Logistics departments need to balance different time-horizons. On a tactical level, customers expect reliable service and competitive prices. On an operational level, shipments need to be consolidated, resources and charters assigned and return loads found. When executing plans, disturbances need to be dealt with and unforeseen opportunities taken advantage of. Quintiq understands the dynamic relationship between these levels and provides you with fully integrated solutions for all levels.
Supported Key Functions
Quintiq supports all functions needed for transportation logistics, including:
- Carrier management
- Cross docking
- Inter-modal flow
- Multi-hub transport
- Multi-leg transport
- Solving imbalances
- Selecting ferries
- Charter management
- Automatic consolidation
- Event management
- What-if scenarios
- Trailer/truck/driver swapping
Key Benefits of Quintiq Logistics Planner
Cost-Effective Transport Planning - Quintiq offers shippers a dynamic, multi-resource transport planning solution.
Supply Chain Optimization and Execution - The Quintiq Logistics Planner excels at supply chain optimization: coordinating the flow of goods efficiently through your business network.
Network Optimization - With the Quintiq Logistics Planner, you can optimize your multi-modal logistics network including depots, hubs, cross docks, and trunking.
Collaborative Scheduling - Share planning data with your carriers and pro-actively plan transportation schedules based on available capacity leads.
Adaptive Monitoring and Alerting - Make accurate decisions by identifying and solving unforeseen issues through advanced overviews.
Real-time KPI Analysis and Reporting - The Quintiq Logistics Planner includes a reporting tool for fast, flexible queries and reports against both real-time and historical information.
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