Logistics Optimization

Should you invest in increasing your fleet size, or outsource delivery volume to third party logistics?

Catch the recording of our AI in logistics webinar with practical use cases and examples of different data science techniques on route optimization.

A common situation in higher density urban routing is that route planning algorithms have a hard time accounting for parking. While a certain sequence of stops might be the most efficient to an algorithm based on traffic, a driver in the real world wants to park as few times as possible even if it means delivering more orders on foot.

The bottled beverage industry has unique challenges for last-mile delivery optimization. From specific product requirements to the typical hurdles of last-mile delivery, logistics companies need to assess the delivery needs of beverage products on an individual basis.

Adiona breaks down the most common and often confusing terms from the logistics industry. How many do you know?

The important key performance indicators you need to consider for enhancing logistics and last-mile delivery, take a look at common metrics and how to interpret them.

How to use the Zones feature in FlexOps' PDVRP algorithm

Adiona's guide to the vehicle routing problem, a subset of the travelling salesman problem, in the context of last mile delivery

Delivery Route Optimization applications are evolving in response to the development of e-commerce businesses and last-mile operations. This article helps supply chain leaders evaluating their investment in fleet routing, scheduling, and last-mile delivery optimization.

Logistic operations optimization means optimizing the whole process flow, from ordering products to delivering them to the customer.

Reducing Fuel Costs and Other Benefits of Route Optimization

The pandemic has caused the delivery industry to see a sudden increase. In order to cope up with the high volumes of orders, the logistics industry has to be more active to improve overall delivery performance. For this, a lot of companies have been utilizing logistics software to provide faster delivery.

You undoubtedly have an excellent notion of how supply chain visibility helps businesses like yours. But exactly what benefits does it offer?

What is Route Optimization and Why is It So Important?

The pandemic has changed a lot of things for the world. We can say that the entire world is optimising as per the new COVID-19 era. Similarly, the production and delivery strategies also demand efficient delivery route optimisation to meet the customer needs.

Being in the supply chain business is not an easy affair. You need to ensure that your delivery operations are well-strategized and efficiently executed to thrive in the hyper-competitive market.

You can visualise the supply chain as a river that is flowing from one point to another. As the running water finds its way to the destination, items in the supply chain also get to their delivery point.

Fuel and infrastructure costs are a crucial component of comparing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEV) are introduced into a logistics and delivery fleet. But those costs are often still smaller than the overall labour to drive the fleet, so looking at route planning and labour costs of the overall network is a critical part of planning a ZEV fleet transition. You can now do this easily with Adiona's new ZEV TCO optimization tools.

This video will show you how Adiona’s platform can be used to support microfulfilment centers, pickup/dropoff points such as lockers, ghost kitchens, electric vehicles and sidewalk vehicles, and hybrid fleets including bikes, walkers, and even autonomous mobile robots and drones.

Tech is taking over every aspect of the world. Now, simple connections between suppliers and organizations have become supply chain networks.

Grocery delivery shutdowns, missing toilet paper, and soaring product prices; these were the face of the COVID-19 supply chain disruption. To address the underlying logistics challenges and improve economic resilience, the NSW Treasury has announced that it will invest $250,000 into innovative logistics automation platform Adiona to allow shippers and carriers to become vastly more efficient.

Clean, well-structured data is one of the biggest barriers to efficiency and cost-reduction programs according to supply chain and logistics orgs. And while it is still far from perfect, cleaning data is getting easier thanks to machine learning.

Carbon and GHG emissions are a crucial component of informing and optimizing your Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEV) strategy. Integrate real time and strategic GHG emissions measurements with other routing and fleet data to create the best, lowest-cost long term strategy for your organization

When we think of logistics in today’s time, the first thing that comes to our mind is- “Logistics Technology.” Logistics technology has automated numerous tasks like gathering data, processing, analysis, and transmission.