Transport optimization at the highest level.
MasterScheduler
Flexible optimization algorithms and modern scheduling UI. Our focus is on the optimal utilization of your transports, to minimize transport costs across the network. We bring immediate benefits through savings with our easy to understand optimization concept.
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Operational and tactical transport planning
Hurdles of classical planning
- Too simple consideration of complex planning problems
- No overall optimization of route and loading
- Rigid systems with assumptions, such as fixed delivery patterns or parking spaces
- Suboptimal solutions due to model simplification
- Fluctuating demands and lack of situational agility
Planning with smart algorithms
We are very particular about our solutions. We make data-driven, forward-looking decisions that take into account daily demand to ensure that tactical shipments are planned at the right time and in the correct manner. Additionally, we place a high priority on load capacity utilization to ensure all operational restrictions are met.
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Profit
Go from static planning ...
- Lack of clarity about optimal means of transport
- Inefficient utilization of FTL's and milkruns
- Inaccurate transport planning due to rounding quantities
- Manual Excel planning
- Lack of transparency about utilization
... to dynamic planning
- Optimal use of the strategic transport network
- Dynamic scheduling based on daily requirements
- Fulfillment of all necessary restrictions in the operational business
- Milk run control and empties
- Exact 3D planning of multi-level loading
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Customizing and Adaption
All individual scheduling rules can be customized with little effort.
We map the planning situation exactly. The more precisely we can plan, the more potential savings we can calculate. In planning, we take all the main parameters that affect your logistics processes into account.
Inbound / Warehouse / Production / Warehouse / Outbound
- Mixed containers, layers and KLT's
- Stackability
- Optimization of composition
- Range control
- Milk run control
- Plant calendar plant/supplier
- Storage capacity
- Production
- Timeslots
- and much, much more...
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Areas of application
Optimized delivery schedules
MRP results are not transport optimized. Save up to 20% by smart demand shifting and optimized FTL/Milkrun control. With MasterScheduler you increase the utilization of all trucks from your suppliers > 95%. With the individual constraints and stackabilities we ensure that each truck is dispatched in the best possible way and capital commitment or storage costs are taken into account.
Optimized delivery
Delivery has many operational challenges. MasterScheduler can be customized to meet them, optimizing your shipments in a data-driven way from warehouse, demand, range, timeslot and many other factors. Use the data-driven control of routes including loading for your outbound logistics. With the innovative concept of dispatching in the UI, you can see the planning with full transparency and benefit.
Interplant Shuttle Planning
There is often more data available for scheduling in your own transportation network than for external sources/sinks. Let source and destination warehouses play a role as well as production shifts and material flows in the warehouse. MasterScheduler plans even better under full information and can intervene tactically and operationally to effectively handle last-minute rescheduling requests.
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Added value through optimization
Economic and ecological benefits
Standardize the planning process
With a strong tool in transportation planning, you standardize your planning processes. Have you ever seen experienced employees leaving along with their planning know-how? With the mapping of the planning processes in MasterScheduler, the knowledge remains and provides the dispatchers with a platform for support.
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IT-Integration
Like an add-on, MasterScheduler retrieves relevant planning parameters from the ERP or TMS and returns an optimized transport plan via interface.
Example integration for information flow with MasterScheduler
