Quickly Create Plans for Thousands of Shipments
Produce detailed transportation plans that balance transport costs and service in complex freight networks. Whether you use for-hire carriers, private fleets or a combination, ILOG Transport PowerOps (TPO) creates optimal daily and weekly plans to meet your unique business goals and operating constraints.
ILOG Transport PowerOps determines optimal cross docking assignments, load consolidation, route sequences and schedules. The application lets you set constraints, and manage data while visualizing schedules and both deployed and available assets. Achieve lower costs and provide better service for customers and users.
Accomplish key objectives:
- Cut costs
- Improve service
- Manage larger volumes
- Reduce burden on IT
- Enforce standard practices
- Optimize continuously
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Improve critical processes:
- Shpment consolidation
- Route sequencing
- Mode selection
- Carrier selection
- Dynamic cross docking
- On-time scheduling
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Planning that optimizes for-hire and dedicated/private fleet resources
ILOG Transport PowerOps provides a breakthrough ability to optimize the use of for-hire and private fleet resources. It minimizes costs while maximizing the customer service performance of the entire transportation plan, deploying the right resources to the best possible delivery routes.
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ILOG Transport PowerOps interface.
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Planning that optimizes the use of a multi-tier network
ILOG Transport PowerOps creates state-of-the-art inbound and outbound transportation plans for multi-site, multi-tier distribution networks, taking full advantage of cross-docking, pooling, backhauls, and continuous moves to make the best use of available capacity. These strengths in optimization allow companies to quickly take advantage of economies of scale that exist when transportation planning is done across divisions and product lines. And they allow companies to be more agile, no longer constrained by a months old routing guide.
Benefits include:
- Lower costs— Through increased capacity utilization, fewer miles driven, and the best use of private fleet and dedicated resources.
- Improved service— Account for every aspect of customer service, generating plans that meet customer delivery day and window requirements.
- Enforcement of standard practices— Take advantage of operational performance metrics to meet business goals.
- Greater responsiveness— React quickly to changes in order quantities, stops, or other unexpected events.
Proven technology for your scheduling solution
Maximize your IT investment. ILOG TPO features proven ILOG optimization and
visualization technology. Your solution is backed by a decade of ILOG experience in building scheduling applications for industry leaders worldwide.
Next steps
Learn more about how ILOG can help you improve transportation scheduling:
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