Knowing your Capacity to deliver – What if Scenarios

Furthermore, if a Logistics & Distribution company wants to grow its business by increasing their customer base and service areas, they need to be able to analyse and evaluate different “what if” scenarios in a timely manner. 

A typical analysis and evaluation in this regard is to examine whether their existing fleet is capable of servicing additional business and what the impact of that additional business will have on existing routes and schedules. Using a manual process of mapping routes and analysing potential order fulfilment, we are told, can take many weeks and greatly impacts the timelines for decision making processes around these new business opportunities.

In light of this we have shown that with proper geographically related route optimisation and scheduling technology the ability to analyse and evaluate new business opportunities relative to existing business capacity is near real time and can in some cases reduce the overall process from weeks to days. A routing and scheduling solution can help evaluating the profitability of new business opportunities before committing to them and thus protecting profitability margins.