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Replenishment Planning
Distribution centers need frequent replenishments. Each material can its on consumption profile, safety stock needs and hence replenishment cycle. Consolidating loads across products, choosing the right size transport available on time and scheduling its multi-drop route is a complex problem to solve.
XPlan Logistics Scheduling does it elegantly using detailed digital twin of your logistics process, advanced optimization algorithm, Rich visualization, Robust Integration.
Vehicle Route Planning
Customer Order quantity rarely match Transport Capacities, Hence break bulk operation and Milk run multi-drop trips are common. This comes with the challenge of Selection of right size vehicle, customer selection, routing, load parcel building and ensuring taking advantage FTL (full truck Load) freight rate.
XPlan Logistics Scheduling and Management prescribes best in class solution using advanced AI algorithms and delivers best business results.
Fleet Planning
World has realized the importance of Logistics fulfillment by looking at the Ecommerce giants. Own or 3PL, whatever the means of fulfillment, Fleet planning, sizing, contracting/chartering is important piece in the puzzle for high customer service level.
Rail, Road, Air, Ships or Pipeline have different dynamics for different industry verticals.
Integrated Planning with warehouse and production operations are important features in XPlan.
Reducing Empty Kilometers
Vehicles don't make money when running empty and may be cost ineffective when underutilized.
Round trip return to source could be default way of planning trips, but choosing nearest eligible source using dynamic routing like how XPlan does, can save precious time and money.
Inventory Optimization
Inventory optimization in Logistics means carefully synchronized and timed movement of FG Stock through Source, DC / Warehouse and Customer (vendor managed).
Accurate consumption forecast and Stock out prediction coupled with intelligent routing, load planning and transport selection.
XPlan Logistics automatically searches through all possible trip options and optimizes for fulfilment, utilization and cost simultaneously and prescribes best trips.
Transport Asset Utilization
Owned and Contracted 3PL fleet vehicles are important resources on the field. Idling, Detention, Wrong vehicle selection, improper routing impacts asset utilization (among other things) adversely.
XPlan is equipped with accurate ETA service and integrations to asses availability and position of vehicles, best-in-class routing and fulfilment algorithm to ensure it weighs in time windows, delays, traffic weighted travel time and suggest best Trip timings.
Best Source Selection
Choosing best source for replenishment, trading off extra kilometer travel against cheaper product cost could add extra few percent of cost saving in logistics.
XPlan Logistics management suggests trips which based on total delivered cost for any customer order searching temporally and spatially many options that may exist in your network.
Reducing Trip Return Volume
Customer Orders and its combination when matched properly with right sized vehicle being selected and trip timed properly yields rich dividend in logistics. Fallout is either less than Vehicle load (LTL) freight cost or return volumes. But doing so is hard in practice.
XPlan reduces Return volume at the time of planning with search and optimization technique. If managed inventory based customer's consumption changes leaving extra return volume, it provides best neighborhood delivery option graded by cost and delivery quantity.
RTKM Equitable Distribution
Contracted Transport Fleets are assured of certain minimum Kilometers (RTKM) business each period. Company will have multiple fleets at different agreed cost rates.
Optimization based Logistics scheduling tend to choose lowest cost Transport vehicle, which may lead to unhappy Fleet owners which are not utilized properly. Additional constraints to meet the targeted minimum kilometer business can be configured.
ETA Prediction
One of the key components in constellation of XPlan Logistics Services is accurate prediction of Expected Time of Arrival (ETA) and Trip Projections. Its based on complex calculations of time also utilization map services. It considers locations coordinates (Latitude, Longitude), Access windows, Traffic weighted time determination, Crew Lunch, Dinner, Rest breaks etc.
XPlan Logistics Management integrates with Vehicle GPS systems, manages Location calendar patterns and rolls out Access windows in future automatically.
Real Time Monitoring
Execution time disruption is very common. Real time monitoring, reprojections, Intelligent alerts based on configurable thresholds pertinent to Customer, DC, Transporter, Crew, Customer Representatives is very important to create situational awareness and customer service.
XPlan Logistics management allows Tracking Orders, Inventory, Transport resource at very granular level and generates several Alerts related to fulfilment performance, asset engagement, quality of data, cost and business metric which stakeholders can subscribe to.
Fuels Retailing Logistics
Fuel retailing (Gas stations / Petrol Pumps as they called) require robust supporting logistics. It is made up of multiple Terminals, hundreds of Delivery nodes, multiple product grades. Tank Trucks have compartments and are certified and exclusively contracted for transporting fuels only. Gasoline and diesel grades may have different stock times, tank capacities, reorder levels and replenishment quantities. Simultaneous re-order points can make transportation more efficient and so does milk-run routing. Some retail outlets are based on order placement and some could be managed with inventory data collected frequently using telemetry.
Scheduling for fulfilment and Real time monitoring is a complex task that XPlan Logistics Management enables with ease.
Offshore Supply Vessels (OSV)
Offshore drilling and exploration operations need to be supported by complex logistics for supply and evacuation of several materials (Water, Brine, Diesel, Equipment's etc.) and manpower. Offshore Supply Vessels come in different sizes and forms serving specific purposes but do overlap in supplying some common materials. Timing of such supplies is important to maintain productivity of exploration assets.
XPlan Logistics Scheduling and Management is well equipped to handle the challenge.
Metal Pot Tapping Casthouse Delivery
Casthouse Furnaces require timely metal loading and Reduction line pots (more than one) fill up a ladle. The filling time and travel time of ladle needs to be minimal in order to conserve energy, which is one of the biggest concerns of Metallurgical companies.
Solving problem of supplying metal from hundreds of pots to dozens of furnace based on readiness, quality, timeliness is a highly combinatorial and challenging logistical problem within Plants. XPlan Logistics Scheduling can solve this problem effectively