Two types of organizations use PowerOpt:
- Firms operating fleets of trucks. PowerOpt is used to optimize the planning of truck routes, schedules, and loads.
- Firms that do not own transportation assets and must transport shipments using less-than-truckload, truckload, or small package transportation companies. PowerOpt is used to significantly reduce their shipment costs by consolidating shipments into multi-stop truck routes and by optimizing associated transportation mode and carrier decisions.
Companies using PowerOpt include the following:
Consumer Products Manufacturing and Distribution
- Woodgrain Distribution
Food Distribution
- Performance Food Group
- U.S. Foodservice
Industrial or Consumer Products Manufacturing
- Bonsal American
- Oldcastle Lawn and Garden
- TimBar Packaging
- Woodgrain Millwork
Retail
- Leading U.S. cosmetics firm
Third Party Logistics
- AmeriCold Logistics
Transportation
- Associated Parcel Service
- Bonded Transportation
- D's Delivery
- DanCo Distribution
- Expedited Delivery
- Midwest Delivery
- Murray’s Express
- Superior Delivery Network
How We Have Saved Our Clients Money
Reduced delivery miles by 10% by enabling a switch from inefficient fixed routes to daily optimized flexible routes, and reduced the daily planning effort by 50%.
–Large Food Distributor
$5 million annual cost savings by optimizing 3PL routes to accommodate additional volume; developed technology to dynamically divert UPS/FedEx packages onto optimized routes; built technology to insert new drop points into optimum route and stop sequence.
–Fortune 500 Consumer Package Goods Manufacturer
Reduced transportation costs by 20% by optimizing the consolidation of less-than-truckload shipments into multi-stop routes, and changed a two hour manual planning process into a five minute automated process.
–Consumer Products Manufacturer
Generated several million dollars of savings by optimizing distribution network configurations and associated private fleet delivery territories.
–Large Food Distributor