Quintiq focuses on container transport market with Container Logistics solution

’s-Hertogenbosch, March 8, 2007 – Software supplier Quintiq has developed an integrated planning solution with which transport companies can improve the management and control of container transport. Quintiq helps companies in this sector to optimise their use of containers, lower transportation costs and improve service levels. In addition, Quintiq focuses on lowering container stock and reducing the cost of transporting empty containers.

The Quintiq software supports tactical planning in which optimal empty container movements are calculated using periodical forecasts. The solution takes into account expected sales or transports, actual container stock, transportation cost, finite and infinite capacity and handling costs. The aim of the solution is to reduce the total cost of repositioning.

Quintiq also offers seamless integration between the planning of loaded and empty container flows. In this way Quintiq supports the intermodal transport of containers, enabling transporters to provide an optimal door-to-door service. As far as operational planning is concerned, the main concern is to reduce transportation costs by creating optimal trips. A transporter can combine transport orders (full containers) with empty container repositioning and so create a better balance between supply and demand.

With this solution Quintiq addresses the increasing complexity of container transportation. The variety of types of containers is steadily increasing, harbours are struggling with capacity, and transporters have to comply to a wide variety of rules and regulations. Container flows also go deeper into Europe, which especially affects the repositioning of containers and the dynamics of transportation and cost allocation.

“Our advanced planning technology is able to offer an integrated Supply Chain Management solution to the complex and dynamic container logistics market, offering all the required functionality, varying from strategic simulation software to event management,” says Arjen Heeres, COO at Quintiq. “Our customers say they need this more and more to reach their goals.”

For further information please contact:
Quintiq
Martijn van Gils
Marketing Director
Tel. +31 (0)73 6910739
E-mail: martijn.van.gils@quintiq.com