In Logistics (WMS & Delivery), we manage the business process (automatisation, optimisation and robotisation) with easy to understand and visualise measurements (KPIs: labor and machine utilisation and efficiency, average profit margin per customer, distance and deliveries, orders on time, time to pick, etc). See our solution together with Probotics and our solution at Ordertapp together with the smart waste logistics implementation.
Manage the business with easy to understand and visualize measurements (expl KPIs: labor and machine utilization and efficiency, average profit margin per customer)
Planner is responsible for handling the overall interactions:
Plan orders on resources
React when constraints get invalid
Communicate the plan to stakeholders
validate the quality of the KPI’s
Within a Warehouse Management System, the planner can work with the allocation of the virtual of rack space locations using different strategies. We are talking about:
production orders (inbound in Warehouse)
virtual locations
forklift drivers/ AGV’s
product types and orders/customers
outbound/transport orders
Different rules apply for Logistics planning, where orders and resources have a different distribution in time as shown below:
vehicles
routes
drivers
orders/customers/clients
Main actions for planners:
Create optimal routes
Autoplan creation using algorithms
Real-time visualization of the overall delivery plan – ex: late order delivery
Constraint visualisation: ex: violations due to orders planned on a vehicle with issues (due to maintenance)
Support with finite capacity based planning – ex: re-allocate orders on vehicles to get the optimal utilization and remove bottlenecks
Auto-allocation of orders to routes and drivers
visual overview of daily tasks: ex: receiving allocated routes, maintaining the delivery status
order status following
efficient invoicing process ex: create, modify, validate, and send invoicing cycle
scheduling invoices ex: pattern based auto-generation of invoicing
getting involved in the end-to-end distribution plan. Receiving notifications and interacting with the driver.
