Routeplanning for Retail

The Challenge

Challenges in routing for retail are:

    1. On a strategic/tactical level: the mapping of outlet towards depots, or the assignment of products to depots.
    2. The computation of the best days to deliver outlets (tactical route planning, applied at several non-food retailers with strong business cases).
    3. Taking care of specific food retail conditions, e.g., combination of multiple products with their characteristics, e.g., ambient, frozen, chilled with flexible compartments and special promotion planning.

The Solution

ORTEC offers 3 solutions for routing in retail:

    1. ORTEC Tactical Route Planning for strategic/tactical issues related to vehicle routing.
    2. ORTEC Transport and Distribution for operational/real-time issues related to larger, mulit site and multi user vehicle routing planning
    3. ORTEC Shortrec for a combination of tactical and operational issues, with less real-time requirements.

The Benefits

Primary benefits:

  • Better routes
  • More stops per trip
  • Higher service level
  • Less mistakes
  • Quick decisions possible
  • Less effort needed for making plans
  • Less risk passing laws
  • Less need for hiring equipment

Secondairy benefits:

  • Less risk for out of stock situations
  • Less illness for employees (less stress)
  • Quicker response to demands of retail point
  • Less CO2 emission
  • Better utilization of equipment

Why Us

Capgemini is your best partner to define your future retail strategy and implement the business information management solutions for executing that strategy, including change management. ORTEC adds to that the best decision support solutions for optimized resource planning related to vehicle routing. ORTEC solutions help you to take more criteria into account then you ever could do before. With a customer base of more than 1200 customers, including 50 of the largest retailers worldwide, ranging from Carrefour, Ahold, Casino, Lidl, C&A, SPAR and AS Watson, to DOT Foods (US), Shoprite (South Africa), RIMI (Baltics) and V&D (the Netherlands). The combination of Capgemini and ORTEC will bring you the best strategy, combined with the best vehicle routing soutions and the most extensive implementation and support experience.

Contact Us

Wim-Paul Swanborn, Herman Bosker
Contact our Utrecht office.
e-mail: gscaps.nl@capgemini.com tel: +31 30 6898402