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Benefits
Retail smart optimized
Fully loaded transports & on-time deliveries
Integrated loading & route planning for error-free store deliveries
Policy-compliant planning for reliable service levels
Challenges
Last-mile delivery under restrictions
Retail networks are burdened by high shipment volumes and fragmented time windows (business hours, delivery slots). Urban traffic, limited loading zones, and municipal regulations extend dwell times; low stop density drives up costs per stop, particularly when demand is distributed across a wide area. At the same time, EU driving and rest time regulations limit available schedules and require route planning to account for breaks, daily, and weekly limits (e.g., 9/10-hour limits, 45-minute breaks after 4.5 hours). Without integrated optimization, this results in extra mileage, SLA violations, and inflated freight rates.
Products
Comprehensive AI planning, from capacity to routing
Route & Freight Rate Optimization
What makes this solution unique?
- Dynamic multi-stop routing: Optimizes routes with strict/flexible time windows, service times, and loading bay slots.
- Capacity and driver schedule integration: Takes into account vehicle capacities, as well as driving and rest periods and break logic.
- Robust optimization: Less susceptible to travel time and demand uncertainty.
- Scenario simulation: Monthly/weekly planning and dynamic daily scheduling for peak periods, events, and store promotions.
This ensures that every delivery is cost-effective, SLA-compliant, and operationally stable-even with high delivery volumes and strict store time windows.
3D Load Space Optimization
What makes this solution unique?
- 3D visualization & axle load check: Verifiable load distribution per vehicle/trailer, including loading sequence.
- Cube optimization: higher fill rates and fewer trips thanks to algorithmic packing suggestions.
- Retail Standards: Alignment with industry-specific guidelines.
The combination of visualization, palletizing, and loading sequences reduces loading errors and downtime at the store—and ensures rapid shelf replenishment with minimal handling.
Palletizing
The software cuts handling costs, boosts capacity utilization — and does it all without any manual, Tetris‑style stacking.
Features:
- Automated calculation: For safe and space‑efficient palletizing.
- Integration into load‑space planning: Seamless connection to 3D visualization.
- Consideration of all constraints: Weight, stability, and legal requirements.
- Increased efficiency: Fewer transshipments, faster loading, and safer transport.
Tactical Network Optimization
Features at a glance:
- Hub-and-spoke design: regional hubs, cross-docking, and spoke replenishment to synchronize deliveries.
- Milkrun scheduling: fixed routes for consolidated deliveries/pickups, ideal for clusters of branches located close together.
- Stop density optimization: Consolidating delivery routes to reduce costs per stop and emissions.
- Seasonal/Peak scenarios: Simulation for promotional weeks, holidays, and regional peaks.
With network-wide consolidation and tactical scheduling, you can align inventory and routes, from regional logistics to the last mile at the store.
Success Story
Network Optimization for a drugstore chain in Hungary
How can complex distribution networks be made more efficient? S2data achieved exactly that for a major drugstore chain in Hungary: Through strategic and tactical network optimization, ideal warehouse locations were identified and optimal truck freight rates were calculated. The result: a resilient, cost-optimized logistics network that combines transparency and efficiency.
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