Key Benefits of Quintiq Logistics Planner

Cost Effective Transport Planning

Cost effective and efficient transport utilization is achieved by correctly assigning orders to available capacities and drivers. The Quintiq Logistics Planner is a dynamic, multi-resource transport planning solution designed to optimize the complex transportation cycle. The Quintiq Logistics Planner simultaneously evaluates the real cost trade-offs between numerous modes, routes, consolidations and carrier combinations for the lowest cost alternative. By incorporating company specific rules, constraints and KPIs, the Quintiq Logistics Planner provides a customer-specific solution. The Quintiq Logistics Planner supplies the tools needed to maximize shipments, create optimal transportation plans, manage carriers, support multi-hub and multi-leg operations and achieve complete asset utilization.

Supply Chain Optimization and Execution

Efficiently moving goods through your supply chain requires the coordination and, more importantly, the execution of many business processes. With the Quintiq Supply Chain Execution option, you effectively respond to unplanned events that disrupt information and material flow in the supply chain. Through active alerting and constraint management, the Quintiq Supply Chain Execution option immediately reveals the consequences of any disturbance and automatically re-optimizes the supply chain. The Quintiq Supply Chain Execution option solves issues through advanced overviews, allowing you to make quick, accurate decisions. That means no more lost time trying to identify the problem. The result: improved visibility and transparency throughout the supply chain.

Network Optimization

The Quintiq Logistics Planner provides full network optimization for your multi-modal logistics network, including depots, hubs, cross-docks, trunking, empty repositioning and costs. This enables you to generate optimal transportation plans that take into consideration constraints such as:

• Specific cost structures
• Limited resource availability
• Business hours
• Delivery times
• Load configuration
• Warehouse hours
• Customer priorities
  

The Quintiq Logistics Planner has unparalleled flexibility and modeling power, enabling it to consider all the specifics of your business to attain end-to-end network optimization.

Collaborative Scheduling

The Quintiq Collaborative Scheduling option allows you to pro-actively plan based on available transportation capacities and to share the planning data with your carriers. According to their degree of responsibility, each player in the extended supply chain can act on the planning and view the results of their input. The result: dramatic savings in operational costs.

Monitoring and Alerting

Today's advanced technologies have created a continuous flow of new information. The sheer amount of available information is overwhelming and, sometimes, counterproductive. The Quintiq Logistics Planner helps planners use this continuous flow to their advantage by monitoring the data flow and ensuring that only those alerts that impact the plan are highlighted. Provided with a clear exception list, you can effectively and efficiently react to alerts. Your focus shifts from wasting valuable time identifying problems to confidently solving the issues and making decisions based on advanced overviews.

Real-Time KPI Analysis and Reporting

The Quintiq Logistics Planner provides fast, flexible queries and reports against both real-time and historical information. The Quintiq Logistics Planner includes a reporting tool that allows you to create virtually any report: order flow times, late orders, utilization, tardiness, bottlenecks or any combination of data.