WHO IS A GOOD LOGISTICS OPERATOR?

TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS

One who reduces costs. One who pays attention to environmental sustainability. One who doesn’t stress resources. One who meets deadlines. One who’s able to combine technology and change management.

EASY?
NOT EXACTLY

Logistics and transportation operators, whether they belong to companies or third parties, are on an evolutionary path that involves both technologies and field prowess.

Efficiency in the supply chain is the key to a functioning economy as a whole as well as for each individual company.

OUR SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR INDUSTRY

DEMAND INTELLIGENCE

Through the quantitative analysis of the historical demand data and with the use of Data Mining models, Ublique can assess the behavior of past demand, and predict future trends.

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Transport Planning

This Ublique solution is a complete and comprehensive Transport Management System, an optimization technology for users to improve service levels and reduce transportation costs using advanced analytical techniques.

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Warehouse Optimization

Ublique’s Warehouse Optimization solution provides the effective management of logistics and supply chain using dynamic simulations and math-optimization technologies. Warehouses and distribution centers greatly benefit from the applications of our tools set.

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SHORT CASES

01

TRANSPORTATION AND WAREHOUSE OPTIMIZATION

CONTEXT

Fashion retailer with over 500 POS in Italy and hundreds of thousands of SKUs needed a full re-engineering of its transportation from the warehouses to the POS.

CHALLENGES

The main challenges to face were:

  1. rationalization of the process of preparation of goods for output;
  2. improvement and internalization of the process governance, in order to get:
  • Visibility of all the goods shippable to POS in a single environment
  • Visibility and control on composition of delivery units loaded into trucks
  • Consistency between logical and physical delivery units
  • Centralization, automatization and optimization of loading and distribution processes
  • Visibility on vehicle loading and on delivery trips, extended tracking until delivery to the POS
  • KPI analysis and storage of historical data for future improvements and optimizations

SOLUTION

Ublique’s modules were configured and deployed, with the following goals:

  • multi-depot scheduling and routing optimization
  • Integrated fleet planning
  • Optimal trucks loading
  • GPS tracking of all the deliveries

RESULTS

  • -10% total cost of transportation
  • +8% truck saturation
  • Reduction of both stock-outs and overstock at the POS

02

DISTRIBUTION CENTERS AND WAREHOUSES

CONTEXT

A texas grocery store retailer was adding  over 30 new stores. They were expanding the current warehouse where they manage: groceries, dairy products and frozen foods.

CHALLENGES

Increase productivity which was also affected by sub-optimal shelving.

SOLUTION

  • Decide on the best (math-optimal) position for each SKU
  • Understand the impact on operations: productivity and traffic
  • Optimize the design of the racks (impacting pallet-replenishment productivity and efficiency of volume utilization.

RESULTS

  • Increase in productivity: 15-25%
  • Increase in service level: 15-25%
  • Reduction in traveling for picking activities: 25-35%

03

ROUTE PLANNING OPTIMIZATION

CONTEXT

A Brazilian Company providing services on a wide territory, involving hundreds of vehicles and operators aimed to analyze possible saving deriving from math-optimization and innovate the route planning  departments. Due to the nature of the business activities and routing changes every day. The organization involved multiple “local” route-planning offices.

CHALLENGES

Can the cost saving justify the effort to innovate and increase the quality of the routing & planning offices?
Is it possible to centralize part of the operations?

SOLUTION

After the selection of two of the most important and representative areas, Ublique’s Transport Planning module was configured, respecting all the operative constraints and simulating some weeks of activity comparing as-is and to-be.

BENEFITS

Reduction of the variability in terms of volume delivered per day: 36%. As a consequence, fleet utilization largely improved, in particular for smaller vehicles (often a bottleneck to deliver in city centers).