Routing and scheduling software can help transportation and logistics operations make strategic and tactical decisions to reduce operating costs. Using the product to analyze a typical week of delivery routes and running comparisons to test alternative options, such as truck sizes, driver shifts, DC locations or time window options, users can quickly find out which decisions will provide the best transportation cost savings. The software can identify the cost benefits of:
- Combining pick-ups into delivery routes
- Double-dispatching trucks
- Introducing tighter or wider delivery windows
- Using smaller or larger trucks
- Changing DC locations
- Allocating different customers to different DCs
Paragon Software Systems, Inc., www.paragonrouting.com
