Daily Planning (Route Planning)
- OCR Daily Planning solutions help accelerate a company’s ability to continuously create reliable routes using fewer trucks, miles and drivers.
- Proactively builds daily delivery schedules and routes
- As each new order is placed, OCR Daily Planning solutions reoptimize in real-time, allocating resources to help maximize operating efficiencies; deliver priority service to the most profitable accounts and routes; and maintain overall customer service objectives. OCR Daily Planning solutions are designed to integrate easily with existing order management or transportation planning systems, and can help companies reduce costs as a result of shorter routes, reduced fuel consumption and enhanced fleet utilization.
Key potential benefits and capabilities
- Drops in orders throughout the day and the plan continually adjusts
- Offers detailed modeling of customer and operational constraints
- Enables wave picking by continuously releasing routes or parts of routes
- Enables centralized planning
- Can route sales and merchandisers with deliveries
- Available hosted or installed
Components (available on-demand or licensed)
- OCR Route Planner: “I need routing tightly integrated into my enterprise processes because my customers and orders change right up to and even beyond the time of dispatch.”
- OCR Route Planner RS: “I want to quickly route large batches of orders just in time to hand off to the warehouse. I want to run the software myself and would like the option to track my routes in real-time.”
- OCR Route Planner On-demand: “I want a robust solution to build, dispatch and track routes, sales people and merchandisers, that I can deploy quickly. I don’t want to have to administer the software.”
- OCR Route Planner RV (formerly RouteView) “I want a low cost, simple to use application that I run myself for basic route sequencing with an option to upgrade to mobile and AVL.”
- OCR Sales and Merchandiser Manager
Sample Customers
Schwan's, Ashley Furniture, Old Dominion Freight Lines, Ferrellgas, Tomra, Core-Mark, Singer Equipment, Columbia Distributing, DPI, Ideal Supply, John Lewis Partnership, Foster's Group, Comet Group, Argix, Gate City Beverage Distributors
