Step 1 Planning: This stage allows you to either create a new plan, or continue with an existing strategy. This is a chance to look at your orders and vehicles in detail, specifically their individual characteristics.
Step 2 Orders: Upload the orders you want to plan (or reuse an existing order set) and all of their specific needs such as time windows, the drivers’ skills, order size and whether it’s for pickup or delivery. You can also edit all these orders immediately where needed and use flexible tags to customize your orders.
Step 3 Vehicles: Upload a vehicle set or reuse an existing one and include their features such as capacity limit, maximum time spans, costs and the skills or other limitations of the vehicles. A flexible vehicle tag system gives the user all the necessary freedom.
Step 4 Constraints: Here you can indicate which orders can be served by which vehicles based on the order and vehicle tags. This can be used to show whether an order needs a driver with specific skills for example.
Step 5 Optimize & adjust:
Previous:The cost before OptiFlow © was being used (P1).
Predicted:The cost we predict to achieve based upon a simulation with OptiFlow© (P2).
Planned:The cost of the daily planning as given by OptiFlow© (P3).
Manual:The cost of the daily planning after manual adaptations by planners or dispatchers (M)
Actual:Daily costs, these are also seen in profit & loss statements (A).
“CB increases visibility in its distribution process with Conundra. Three actionable improvements have been identified to realize more efficient transports."
