Tramp Shipping Planning

Capgemini offers full service to the shipping companies as the world’s largest project & consulting practice in this sector! Part of this service is our service offering on Advanced Planning & Scheduling for shipping companies. This offering gives you the opportunity to optimize your planning puzzle and supporting the planners in their decisions.

The offered planning solution for the shipping businesses is focused on but not restricted to:

  • Tramp planning
  • Liner planning
  • Barging
  • Crew planning
  • Container repositioning

The Challenge

The consolidation of shipping companies, increasing customer expectations, economical downfall (resulting in less freight offerings and lower shipping prices) and increasing available capacity are major challenges. All of these challenges are making it hard to have a positive TCE on your fleet today.

With TRAMP SHIPPING you need to optimise the TCE by honouring the SLA’s agreed in the CoA and filling the “gaps” with spot orders. When doing so you need to deal with the constraints that are related to the lay-can, products, ships and ports.

The planning puzzle was never easy but is even less easy today. So you can’t effort to rely on business critical excel sheets any more.

The Solution

APS (Advance Planning & Scheduling) offers the solution that helps you dealing with these challenges. The decision support of APS assists the planner in creating the best achievable transport plan, aiding him to optimise the TCE without damaging customer service.

With the usage of simulations the planner can play around with the shipments and immediately see the effect on the KPI’s. At the same time management can make tactical and strategic use of the APS solution for instance to analyse optimum fleet capacity as well as contract optimisation.

The Benefits

The benefits are evident, significant improvement in fleet utilisation which reduces the operational cost. The idle time in port and the time of ballast runs are decreased considerable because of the optimised transport plan. At the same you improve the customer service because you have clear view on the impact of all planning decisions on the KPI’s and SLA’s of the CoA. As an add-on there is the positive environmental impact thanks to the improved transport plan you have less overall mileage and by reducing speed where possible you save fuel.

Overall the quick business benefits are:

  • Improved TCE
  • Less idle time
  • Less time ballast runs
  • Reducing fuel consumption (reduce the carbon foot print)
  • Decreased operational costs

Planning for Profit

Better planning is directly related to better performance. In order to manage the complexity and keep overview over all the details in the planning, you need to focus on the key performance indicators (KPI’s). We help you identify the KPI’s and we make sure that the KPI’s are measurable. Thus, we enable you to steer on the quality and profitability of the plans. In short: planning for profit.

An APS solution implemented by Capgemini’s GSC APS, has the following additional benefits:

  • Solve your planning puzzles in all their complexity
  • Makes your planning process transparent
  • Consistency between planning and realization
  • Fits in any IT landscape

Why Us

Realizing complex multi-resource planning solutions is one of the core capabilities of Capgemini’s Global Solution Center APS. The solution center has successfully carried out over 40 Quintiq implementations at a wide range of industries. Capgemini’s Rightshore® delivery model, involving local entities and development centers in India and Holland, ensure high quality and sufficient implementation capacity in the emerging APS market.

Capgemini has a thriving Transport & Distribution sector, and has long standing relationships in the maritime sector. Capgemini’s experience in this sector is captured in the Competence Centre Ports & Shipping in The Netherlands (50 consultants) and the Maritime Knowledge Centre Norway. Our expertise is at your disposal.

Contact Us

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