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Intelligent supply chain management – How to improve fill rate in supply chain
Managing every point of contact with stock in and out of your premises can help to improve efficiency and eliminate waste across your supply plans.
The entry point of every warehouse is a prime example where a routine process is expected. However, if human error means that a truck is only partially filled then sometimes there is a disconnect with route planning and an opportunity is wasted.
Live fill rate reporting
Empower warehouse management to be more productive. Begin by empowering truck drivers to record their load before departure. Feed that data directly back to the planning office for timely review and correction in routine planning.
Get automatic alerts when there’s misalignment between planned load and routine fill rate.
Manage trailer fill rates to optimise profitability
Using high quality visual data gathered at each loading bay showing actual Fill Rates of trailers and containers at point of departure, we help you optimise your route planning.
Our rich data provides input to route planning and improving working processes. We can gather data using mobile phone cameras or fixed security cameras.
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By recording actual fill rates of each shipment, and sending this as live data to the planning office action can be taken to correct any future discrepancies. And also by proactively identifying gaps or issues with shipments, accuracy is checked in real time, forecasts can be adjusted and future sales opportunities explored by planning departments.
| Benefits | Today | Sentispec Solution |
| Process Optimisation | Local WH manager only | Central view of efficiency Improves CO2 emissions |
| Fill Rates | Theoretical based on Load Management | Central view of efficiency Improves CO2 emissions |
| Cost Optimisation | €100-500 k per year |
Case study:
10% route operations cost reduction.
Background
This regional specialised logistics provider operates a network of Trunk and Last Mile deliveries to over 500 locations every night.
Challenge
Due to dynamic and variable demand from customers, constant adaptation is necessary to run a profitable business. This is vital both in ensuring adequate fleet capacity, but also in optimising the sizes of vehicles used to match individual Route loads.
Solution
By ensuring that a picture is taken of the filled vehicle just prior to departure, the customer received real time insight in actual Fill Rates.
This enables fast responses to rapidly changing conditions, as a single incorrectly sized vehicle can easily waste €100k.
Thus, the customer has an invaluable input to Route and Fleet planning, whilst having access to data which helps optimise working processes throughout their operation.
AI Data transforming supply chains
Allowing partially filled trailers and containers to leave the warehouse is a waste. They are a source of added cost and expense to a logistics business.
If you could record load densities and fill rates of every load and route shipment that would empower the planning office to improve load fill rates and therefore profitability.
How Sentispec Inspector increases fill rate optimisation in freight logistics
Using cameras to record and stream high quality computer vision data of every truck or shipment before departure and sending it to the planning office you have a record. .
In this way, you can provide statistics of load densities across your entire fleet, based on data from driver mobile or fixed cameras at gates.
By recording and reporting fill rates in this way you can then inform the route planning department. They will have the ability to take action and to adapt and improve planning.
This will increase average fill rates & improve route efficiency rates by approximately 5-20% in our experience. Learn about Sentispec Inspector.