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What are the main challenges of demand planning and inventory routing? |
- At strategic level: decision support for investment decisions, such as distribution strategies, depot and warehouse locations, fleet mix optimization and static route designs, as well as sourcing decisions, such as exchange deals and supply contracts.
- At tactical level: within the strategic framework, support decision-making based on seasonality, trends, changing customer mix and demand and combine planning and execution in order to balance workload over time and within capacity and service constraints.
- At operational and real-time level: how to execute the tactical plan while responding to daily dynamics, such as changing demand patterns, traffic, weather conditions, employee absence, equipment breakdown and last-minute and real-time orders and order adjustments.
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ORTEC solutions for demand forecasting, inventory planning and route execution: |
- For strategic and tactical network planning: ORTEC TRP
- For operational vehicle routing: ORTEC Shortrec
- For demand forecasting and automatic order generation: ORTEC ORION
- For multi-site, multi-user demand planning and inventory routing, including integration with TMS, telemetry, onsite equipment and mobile devices: ORTEC Inventory Routing
Click on image below for total solution overview:
Click on the left image below for details on the high degree of integration with ERP, TMS, mobile devices and telemetry equipment. Click on the right image below to view the value chain requirements of inventory replenishment. |
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Listed below are just a few of the main benefits of using ORTEC's demand planning and inventory routing solutions: |
- You can rely on enhanced forecasting capabilities to improve average drop size, eliminate of out-of-stock situations and reduce oversized deliveries and product returns.
- You will be able to optimally balance the workload across shifts by combining planning and execution data.
- You can save up to 10% in miles driven.
- You can lower your transport costs as a result of reduced distances and driving times and improved vehicle utilization.
- You can reduce the time needed to complete your planning activities by up to 50%
- You will increase operational flexibility and be able to meet high SLA requirements while safeguarding costs in order to remain competitive
- Your resource utilization will improve and your planning will become more dynamic
- Your systems and people will be able to solve complex issues in a shorter period of time
Our References and Cases
For a full list of our references, please go to our customer list and customer cases. |
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For further information click on the links below to view our customer references, case studies and industry pages.
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