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(AUG 2009) THE LARGE DANISH WHOLESALE company Reitan Distribution has implemented Transvision Retail Planner for the optimisation and planning of their retail distribution.
Reitan Distribution in Denmark is a part of the large Norwegian company Reitangruppen, which specialises in grocery goods and basic commodities. In Scandinavia, Reitangruppen controls businesses like Rema1000, 7-Eleven, Narvesen and Pressbyrån. As a part of this business Reitan Distribution provides wholesale services and distributes goods to retail outlets.
Reitan Distribution has initially implemented the system in order to plan the distribution of non-foods goods, and soon the distribution of cooled and frozen goods will follow. When the system is fully rolled out, it will handle the optimisation and planning of approx. 100 vehicles distributing grocery goods all over Denmark.
Transvision Retail Planner is Transvision’s standard system for both retail and wholesale distribution. The system is tailored to the demands within retail and wholesale distribution, and it consists of two main system parts.
Simulation environment for:
- The optimisation of master routes for different seasons and bank holiday periods, also using service day assignment for long distribution cycles via frequency planning
- What-if scenarios in connection with the assessment of optimal distribution centre locations, mix of vehicle types, number of needed vehicles, etc.
Operational environment for:
- The scheduling of vehicle resources needed for the distribution, based on the selected master plan
- The re-scheduling and re-planning of today’s master routes, based on actual, confirmed retail orders
- Forwarding loading lists and plans to the warehouse for the packing and ranking of pallets before distribution
- The ongoing reception of status messages, temperatures and positions in order to monitor and consequence calculate the distribution plan in real time
- Re-planning second or third routes/tours for each vehicle based on delay calculations
- Generating data for follow-up, such as invoicing, self-billing, proof-of-delivery, system calibration, KPIs, etc.
Besides rolling the system out on the distribution of cooled and frozen goods, Reitan Distribution will, in a future phase, integrate it with a mobile solution in order to obtain real-time vehicle and planning system interaction.
Transvision is proud to have implemented Transvision Retail Planner at Reitan Distribution, and we look forward to a long-lasting cooperation between the two companies.
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