Ports & Terminals
Relieve bottlenecks and increase overall productivity
Ports and terminals are no longer just transshipment centers; today they form integral parts of supply chains and as such are ideally positioned to offer value-added logistics services. However, many ports and terminals suffer from inefficiencies and bottlenecks and, as a result, cannot make the most out of the opportunities coming their way.
Quintiq can optimize all your terminal activities and resources in a single integral plan across multiple planning horizons. This is important because of the strong dependency between terminal activities and terminal resources allocation. With company-wide transparency and flexibility, you can increase productivity and free-up resources and space & capacity to expand your service offering. You can take into account different priorities and customer service levels when planning, and thereby decrease penalties like demurrage costs. In addition, Quintiq helps terminals and ports confidently handle unexpected disturbances in real time, including the late arrival of vessels or equipment break downs with suggestions of alternative cost-efficient solutions.
Terminal optimization will lead to optimal productivity per square meter, improved resource utilization, and significantly reduced costs.
Terminals are part of the logistics supply chain and serve most important vessels to load or unload cargoes. This implies that the productivity at the berth has often high priority. Maximizing berth productivity e.g. for incoming vessels however would most probably also create new bottlenecks on the next sequence of handling activities because resources and equipment are not perpetually available and are very expensive.
Finding the optimal overall terminal balance, influenced by lots of daily disturbances, requires an intelligent scheduling and optimization solution looking always one step ahead and steering operations in real-time on profit maximization decisions.
Depending on your project goal, a phased terminal optimization implementation is possible with Quintiq. You can evolve gradually on the same technology. Important is to focus on areas with a high cost-saving potential. Generic terminal planning and optimization capabilities of Quintiq are:
- Berth planning & optimization
- Yard planning & optimization
- Equipment & infrastructure planning & optimization
- Workforce optimization
- Value added service planning
- Gate planning & optimization
- Slot booking optimization
- Synchronization & optimization of all terminal operations, equipment and workforce