Routing Solutions

The Future of Transport Logistics

On the basis of our experience in Transport Logistics the industry is currently experiencing a range of challenges that are mainly due to increasing operational costs and the consequent need to improve efficiency to protect margins. In addition due to the characteristics of the Irish road network transport logistics operators are finding increasingly difficult to calculate accurate driving times and therefore to adhere to customer time windows while at the same time respect vehicle access restrictions.

Moreover, the recent changes in the composition of the workforce due to the influx of foreign national has also created the additional challenge of the lack of territory knowledge by drivers. Ending up in the wrong place might have serious implications on the delivery schedule for that day.

Driver absenteeism or driver turnover can also have a massive impact on your organisations ability to deliver: it takes time to train a replacement driver and generally requires routes to be driven by two people for some time.

Our evidence and the experiences of our customers have demonstrated that these challenges can be successfully managed by adopting a vehicle routing and scheduling solution.