AI & Digitization for the Transportation and Logistics Industry

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Digitization and transparency in transport & logistics is more important than ever!

Logistics and transport is one of the key industries for the German economy. At the latest when "download" is not an option, when the supply chain - the global supply chains - are disrupted, logistics hits the headlines.

Whether transport, warehouse or contract logistics: the tasks in logistics are diverse and require maximum flexibility while constantly balancing costs and performance. Capacities in the form of people and materials are limited, requirements for reliability, punctuality and transparency are increasing and costs cannot be passed on completely to customers.

Digitization and transparency of processes as well as automated support for optimization can help logistics companies better manage the balancing act between costs and performance in order to act as a valuable partner to the economy in the long term.

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Master the requirements!

The requirements in the transport and logistics industry are varied and characterized in particular by the high complexity and interaction of many factors. Technologies help to reduce this complexity and make your processes more efficient.

Are you also facing these challenges?

Many documents are still in paper form, which leads to media discontinuities
These media discontinuities prevent a transparent and efficient flow of information from being created
Your employees need a lot of manual effort to process various requests
This leads to poor and cumbersome service

Intelligent document management

Reduce your manual effort and ensure data exchange without media breaks.

AI-supported, automated recognition and processing of textual information makes processing faster and more effective
Consistent digitization of all information prevents media breaks
All necessary information is provided centrally and virtually

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Transparent information flow is one of the key processes within logistics. Media disruptions and paper form determine the exchange of data between the various players, e.g. between customer and carrier, customs and freight forwarder, shipping documents or delivery bills. This weakness leads to unnecessary manual work, intransparency and errors. The situation is different with the intelligent capture of document data and its automated further processing: so-called, software-based "intelligent automats" are used to eliminate media discontinuities (for example, in the text recognition of freight documents, delivery bills and invoices and their digital further processing). These automats are first trained on the basis of the technical background, as with a new employee. Using examples, the machine learns the technical context, positioning in the document and the interrelationships - similar to humans. After a training phase, the automat will also recognize new patterns independently and thus understand increasingly larger contexts. In this way, the basis is laid for the central provision of all necessary information, the manual effort is drastically reduced and certain activities, e.g. quotation preparation, are automated.

Are you also facing these challenges?

Due to the complexity of many factors, your planning is very (time) consuming and imprecise
Often the staffing level does not correspond to the demand, which is often also favoured by spontaneous developments
Your manual effort in planning in decentralized systems is very high
You lack transparency in planning

Effective workforce management

Automate your processes and make them efficient, e.g. for task distribution and absences.

Network all relevant influencing factors to plan optimal staff deployment
Reduce complexity and create transparency
(Partial) automation of planning using mathematical methods facilitates planning processes

Learn more about workforce planning:

Intelligent workforce planning ensures networking of all influencing factors relevant for workforce planning in a specific case. The prerequisite is the digital availability of the relevant factors. With the help of a combination ("integration") of the factors, transparency is first created about the available variables in order to then realize the best possible and up-to-date deployment of employees on a daily basis using mathematical methods, e.g. forecasting or optimization, independent of time and location. At the same time, the analytics approach enables the automation of a wide range of processes such as task distribution and corrections in the event of absences and the billing of work actually performed according to individual factors such as salaries, holiday regulations and more.

Are you also facing these challenges?

Many factors determine the route: travel time, capacity of the vehicle, driving and rest times, if applicable, limited delivery times.
Complexity of planning: the order of the route influences the load and vice versa
You want to utilize your fleet efficiently while minimizing CO2/fuel/time

Maximum route and load optimization

Take into account all relevant factors and ensure networking and consolidation in the planning context.

Benefit from transparency and digital availability of all processes and influencing factors
Use mathematical algorithms to determine the optimal route and loading

Learn more about tour and warehouse optimization:

Route optimization is an elementary component of logistics. Plan faster and better, use the fleet more efficiently and produce fewer CO2 emissions: Which carrier delivers to which area? Which is the shortest of the possible delivery routes? How much merchandise can a messenger deliver in one working day? These questions point to one of the most mathematically difficult types of problems: Just visiting 20 delivery points, including consideration of other factors such as vehicle types with varying amounts of space, working and opening hours, traffic conditions, possible stops for reloading, yields more possibilities than a human can calculate through in a lifetime of work. AI-powered computer-calculated mathematical optimization helps to make complex decisions and make purposeful trade-offs. To build an adequate and efficient route optimization, the quality and timeliness of the data in each use case is essential. Understanding the data situation as well as the logistical processes and procedures on site, in the shipping department and at the customer's site have top priority. Our optimization approach is based on the use of mathematical algorithms for the inclusion of individual and industry-specific requirements, thus ensuring the networking and condensation of all truly relevant data in the planning context.

Do you also face these challenges?

You constantly have to juggle between availability of transport capacity, employees and schedules
High cost pressure complicates your work
Added to this is high pressure to make decisions at short notice

Create transparency

Make all information available in a transparent, quality-assured and comprehensible way - and thus make well-founded decisions.

Bring your data from all systems (e.g. orders, delivery bills, capacities, vehicle fleet, personnel, digital tacho) into a central data pool.
Prepare your data so that it is constantly available for decision making
If necessary, use further mathematical methods, e.g. forecasting, prognosis, optimization, to make decisions (partially) automatically

Learn more about transparency in the industry:

"The right objects must be available to customers in the right quantity at the right time with the right information at the right cost in the right place with the right quality." - this guiding principle shows the continuous pressure to make decisions between sometimes conflicting framework parameters. Only through the transparent, quality-assured, comprehensible provision of all information in a central location can decision-making be fact-based. Via technologies such as data integration and a central data pool, the first goal is achieved: centralizing the information and putting it into a form that is suitable for decision-making in the first place. Initially, this may continue to be done manually, but this lays the foundation for further intelligent support: Using mathematical methods, e.g., the automatic determination of dependencies, forecasts and optimization, decisions can be made faster and better.

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Consulting for logistics and transport companies with interdisciplinary analysis and optimization approaches as the key to success.

We know the challenges...

Digital and transparent data as well as automated and flexible processes within the supply chain are assets more than ever. Responsible parties must be kept up to date on what is happening at all times. Stakeholders and decision-makers must also be able to analyze data quickly at any time in order to respond to changes, challenges and opportunities in today's volatile market.

... and find the right IT solutions!

Only by analyzing and optimizing data as well as process flows throughout the supply chain is it possible to identify efficiencies and improve productivity.

The insights gained also provide insights into the strengths or weaknesses of various departments, facilities, workflows, and committed inputs/outputs within the supply chain. Thus, solving acute challenges is predominantly about analytically diving into the details comprehensively, finding the problems and dependencies of involved entities, and identifying actionable solutions.

Holistic consulting

We coach, advise and support you in the planning as well as in the project implementation to suitable solutions.

Years of expertise

We have cross-manufacturer and cross-industry expertise along the entire supply chain. We will be happy to work out possible options for action and recommendations for you in the first step on the basis of a joint inventory or a proof-of-value.

Best practice

Our methodological approach model is mathematical-analytical in nature, equally at ease with support within your strategic 4.0 transformation, as well as dedicated point solution/optimization initiatives.

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TIMETOACT Software & Consulting GmbHContact

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TIMETOACT GROUPContact

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