Eliminate uncertainty from your trip planning?
Solution: Predict first and calculate later
Pre-trip improvements
Most people are aware that our SaaS platform analyses a wide range of logistics data, enabling you to closely monitor the execution of your transport operations and intervene to optimise them (in real time) if necessary. But did you know that our platform not only offers post-trip reporting, including insights into incidents and their causes, but can also provide in-depth insights into likely disruptions during the day ahead, even before a single mile has been completed? In other words, it can show you whether you will be in the black or the red at the end of the day!
Planning checker
Besides our complete platform, we offer user-friendly tools that allow you to regularly validate and check your trip planning. By conducting a check in advance, you gain insight into the expected travel times, the speed – i.e. whether the traffic will flow smoothly – and the distances associated with your planned trips. Together, these predictive insights form a ‘digital twin’, mirroring your real-world transport chain in near-real time. This digital twin saves users a huge amount of time they would otherwise spend on searching for, correlating and analysing data. Now, you can see at a glance whether your carefully planned trip schedule is feasible before you start executing it. Therefore, you have an immediate indication of whether you can comply with your contractual agreements by meeting supply chain KPIs, SLAs and other parameters.
Dealing with uncertainty
These pre-trip insights are obtained thanks to predictive analytics based on various sources of logistics data and real-time data combined with historical data. The historical data is derived from a feedback loop of your previous trips. After all, it is important to know whether the problems that occurred in the past could have been predicted, and whether the measures taken to solve them were effective. Based on these insights, you can assess whether there are ways to reduce uncertainty and whether previous solutions were the right ones.
“Ideally, every trip always goes according to plan and every end customer receives their deliveries as agreed. We realise that trip planning can never be 100% accurate, but we strive for at least 95% reliability. The last 5% will always vary due to unpredictability during execution.”
Continuous feedback loop
Improved trip planning
Simacan can support effective and realistic trip planning by providing advance insights into the impact and costs associated with likely disruptions. This keeps planners better prepared for challenges and uncertainties. By using a continuous feedback loop filled with ever-more information, Simacan facilitates the continuous optimisation of trip schedules, enabling more efficiency, cost savings and carbon reductions. Thanks to Simacan, you no longer have to allow an extra margin for uncertainty when planning trips.
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