Upside drivers with Best Shipping   • Far-reaching savings on planning process span • Anticipate negative events while keeping risks at bay • Rack up service levels • Lessen costs and input resources

Part of ACT Solutions suite, this powerful proprietary product is one the most advanced planning system for short and long term distribution.
Best Shipping optimizes and synchronizes multilevel networks shipments (e.g., factory, hub, warehouse, point of sales, customers).
When it comes to spot "what, whom, where, when and how" moving goods across logistics networks, Best Shipping helps you minimizing logistics costs (e.g., transportation, handling) amid the most constrained logistics and scheduling conditions.

Best Shipping features and usage model

Distribution planning (e.g. products delivery to POSs) constrained e.g., by transit points, time windows, loading capacity, transport modalities (e.g., road, sea, air, rail).
Ability to integrate with more applications, planning tools (e.g., ERP, TMS) and data-warehouse platforms
Stores' replenishment.
Fixed routes setting including transit points' loading agenda synch (e.g., tractions plan).
Delivery scheduling design (e.g. weekly calendars).

BEST Shipping can be coupled with other ACT Solutions proprietary and third-party technologies such as ACT BEST Tour (fleet scheduling), ACT BEFORE (demand forecasting), ARENA and SIMIO (discrete-event simulation).

Main functionalities

Purpose

• costs minimization
  
• service level maximization
  
• resources optimization
  
• multi-objective combination.

Constraints

• infrastructural (e.g., hub capacity)
  
• temporal factors (e.g., inbound goods scheduling)
  
• point of sales capacity
  
• resources (e.g., vehicles, working hours)
  
• goods (e.g., nonhomogeneous good types, fixed supply sources).

Peculiarities

• stock planning and inbound goods forecasting
  
• planning horizon from a few days to a number of months
  
• planning with fixed logistics resources
  
• transit point dynamics and loading synch are considered.
  

Main features and add-on components

• Optimization engine (OPT Calendar: delivery scheduling per week):
  • input: warehouses and service points (geo-position)
    
  • input: warehouses max productivity (e.g. daily, time range)
    
  • input: weekly point services demand and desired delivery frequency
    
  • output: delivery days minimizing logistics costs (e.g. transportation, handling).

Vertical markets

• manufacturing distribution (e.g. factory, hub, stores)
• logistics operators (e.g. with hub, warehouses and vehicles' fleet)
• large-scale retail channels (e.g. transit point management).

ACT Solutions technology integration and scalability

• developed through Java technology
  
• integrates with any SQL database compliant
  
• integrates with ERP, TMS, WMS
  
• a very powerful engine designed for parallel calculus
• scalable for a number of CPUs
  

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