Overview
- Industry: Concrete reinforcement products
- Challenge: Manual planning, heavy reliance on individual employees’ experience, significant coordination effort
- Goal: Make more reliable use of cargo space, centralize knowledge, simplify processes
Initial situation
For a long time, transportation planning at Alpenländische Veredelungs-Industrie GmbH (AVI) relied solely on empirical knowledge. Products of varying sizes and weights had to be estimated manually, which meant that it wasn’t until loading began that it became clear whether the plan actually worked. This led to last-minute adjustments and a high degree of dependence on individual employees.
Our shared path to success
To ensure planning reliability, make knowledge more widely available, and simplify processes, AVI decided to digitize its loading planning. With the S2data Platform, the optimal use of cargo space is now automatically calculated and visually displayed. Employees no longer rely on estimates but instead work with clear recommendations that take both product dimensions and specifications into account.
Planning has become more transparent for everyone involved. Coordination loops are eliminated, and responsibility is shared among multiple people because the previously informal expert knowledge is now embedded in the system. At the same time, the option to intervene manually remains. This is an advantage for special loads or individual requirements.
Solution
The full success story details exactly how AVI implemented this transition, which steps were crucial to the project, and how employees are using the system today—including insights into the implementation process, challenges faced, and the company’s experiences.