With hundreds of drivers and orders every day, planning teams often pick the first available driver that fits. We look at the whole day at once and find the plan that balances cost, utilization and contracts.
A feasible plan is easy to make. A plan that is also the best one, across hundreds of drivers and competing goals, is not.
Many companies manage more than 200 drivers, own and external.
Matching each order to the first suitable driver gives a feasible plan, not an optimal one.
Lower cost, high own-driver utilization and less empty mileage pull in different directions.
External hauliers need enough work to stay active in your pool.
We know how container and trailer planners weigh cost, service and the relationships with their own drivers and hauliers.
The model keeps collecting new orders and explores thousands of possible plans to find the best feasible one.
Every order matched to a driver, re-optimized as new orders come in.
Lower operating cost from smarter combinations of orders and drivers.
Own-driver utilization and haulier commitments kept in balance.
Driver planning builds on PDA, our existing driver assignment model. We use it as the foundation and tailor it to your fleet, hauliers and customers, so you start from a working model instead of a blank page.
Tell us. We'll tell you honestly whether an algorithm can help, and what it would take.
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