Success story

Nedcargo

Logistics service provider Nedcargo is specialised in food, beverage & retail. By using the Simacan platform, Nedcargo offers added value to their customers, providing manufacturers and retailers with control over transport flows and increasing product availability in stores.

Mission: A wasteless supply chain;
Fleet of about 275 trucks - from LHV to box truck - supplemented by regular charters;
Delivery of goods daily for more than 100 customers to distribution centers, wholesalers, retail, hospitality self-service and stores;
Their customers gain insight into their ETAs through Simacan.

Reliable On-Time In-Full deliveries with sustainable logistics solution

Nedcargo provides transportation and warehousing services for companies in the food and beverage industry. It is crucial for these food & beverage companies to be reliable in their deliveries to DCs of supermarkets, off-licences (liquor stores), restaurants and wholesalers. The manufacturer as supplier also has every interest in having its items delivered On-Time In-Full (OTIF), of course products need to be on shop shelves on time so that no sales opportunity is lost. Nedcargo provides this critical transport for the supply chain between the factories of food & beverage companies and the DCs of retailers.

“In order to offer the highest possible delivery performance, with the lowest possible CO2 emissions, it is important to cleverly combine transport flows and coordinate this with all parties involved,” says Nedcargo. Simacan’s platform plays a key role in this. “With Simacan, we help our customers improve their earnings and we level up our role as a supply chain partner.”

Real-time ETA insights and dynamic retailer integration

With Simacan, manufacturers get a grip on the expected arrival times (ETA) of trucks at their locations and retailers can see when Nedcargo is coming to supply their DCs. Retailers can request adjustments via the platform in order to optimise their own processes. For example, bringing forward a delivery to a specific DC because there is an acute shortage, or rescheduling a stop because there are temporarily no docks or people available at a DC. Nedcargo: “By digitally integrating with retailers and meeting their needs, we also unburden the food companies. They can leave the detailed coordination with their end customers completely to us and don’t have to worry about whether their products will be in the shops on time.”

Achieving a wasteless supply chain

Nedcargo is focused on providing high quality service with the least possible waste and CO2 emissions. The words Wasteless Supply Chain are prominently displayed in large letters at the Dutch headquarters in Waddinxveen. To achieve this mission, it is important that transport capacity is optimally utilised and that activities for different customers are cleverly combined. “With Simacan you can prevent a truck from driving empty or having to wait somewhere for a long time, for example because a load location is temporarily inaccessible. Because you have real-time insight into the current progress of trips, you can see at any time where synergy benefits lie and how to prevent empty miles.”

Planning reliability and First Time Right

Waste can also be prevented with better planning. The interaction between Simacan and Nedcargo’s planning system, plays an important role in this, according to Nedcargo. “Data on completed trips are systematically fed back from Simacan. This allows you to analyse structural deviations and bottlenecks. Suppose that a certain address is structurally delayed on Friday afternoon, then the next time it would be better to plan it in the morning. By not assuming fixed standard times for trips, loading and unloading in your planning but really differentiating by day and time, in combination with location, you’re able to make planning much more reliable and First Time Right (FTR).”

Future-proof solution

Nedcargo is a progressive and data-driven company. “To achieve social sustainability goals and make optimal use of scarce transport capacity, chain partners will have to cooperate more with each other. This is not possible with only specified carriers deployed on fixed routes. If we deliver cargo to a retail DC on behalf of our customers, why not also take cargo for that same retailer to an address we pass anyway? I do know that this is still a hope for the future, but as Nedcargo we want systems that will make this possible. The beauty of Simacan is that it already offers these possibilities for integrated collaboration, that’s why Simacan really is a future-proof solution for us.”

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