Route Planing Optimized route planning, load building, network planning, demand forecasting and workforce scheduling. Those are the just some of the solutions ORTEC has to offer to Trade, Transportation and Logistics Companies. A complete overview of our solution suite on a strategic, tactical, operational and real-time level can be found below.

Challenge.
Challenges for Vehicle Routing and Dispatch include
* strategic level: where to invest, e.g. in warehouses, in distribution points, in main routes, in equipment.
* tactical level: based on the investments made, the demands from customers and partners available, what is the best plan for this month/week.
* operational level: how to react, almost realtime, on illness of truck drivers, traffic jams, trucks that break down, customers who have last minute demands.

Solution.
ORTEC solutions for Trade Transport and Logistics are characterized by 3 points:
- the services include business process knowledge;
- implementation know how;
- strong user service.

The products include strong process models, user interfaces and real-time import/export features.

Using ORTEC Vehicle Routing and Dispatch solutions will bring you:
cost reduction because of less driving times and distance and less hours spent on planning activities;
improved customer service through increased insight in waiting hours, slack times, pro-active exception management, notification of shipment status and increased performance being on time;
improved process efficiency through a larger span of control for planner and dispatcher, (universal acces to all data by any person if required), real-time interaction with systems (ERP, TMS) and devices (board computer, handheld PC);
improved process effectiveness through limitiation of manual data entry activities to the absolute minimum.

The ORTEC Vehicle Routing and Dispatch functions are bundled in 3 solutions sets:
- ORTEC Transport and Distribution (ORTEC TD of OTD)
- ORTEC Shortrec
- ORTEC LEO