"The Opus Fleet & Distribution portfolio seeks to address the 'black hole' that often exists beyond the loading bay".

The level of visibility and control within the Distribution Centre, from put away, to pick, through to order consolidation and marshalling is often high, yet the lack of control and visibility once the goods are on the back of the delivery vehicle is often considerable.

This lack of visibility and control can manifest itself in a number of ways, for example:

• Having no idea of how vehicles are utilised within an operation nor in fact where they all are, or the assets within them.
• Unable to quickly respond to, or pre-advise, a customer of an issue or speedily verify a customer complaint due to no information to hand or being unable to contact a driver.
• High back-office over-heads due to the amount of paperwork that needs processing after each delivery (re-keying, scanning, manning phones to drivers, taking a long time in answering customer queries, etc).
• Delays in invoicing due to late or missing paperwork.
• Drivers taking advantage of poor visibility across the distribution operation, resulting in excessive over-time and stop overs, low productivity, assets going missing, debriefs not happening, mandatory vehicle inspections or fuel logging being poorly maintained.
• Not having the right trailer at the right loading bay at the right time.
• High demurrage claims from the customer.
• The inability to react flexibly to changes in plan.
• Difficulties in Route Accounting - being able to put accurate costs to jobs to understand which jobs are profitable and which are not.
• Not being able to quickly and easily produce operational and strategic reports.
• No ready means of understanding route performance (planned versus actual), and therefore no easy way of improving efficiency, vehicle utilisation or optimising route planning.

The Opus Fleet & Distribution solution has been deployed to a broad range of customers. Some of the recent customer implementations include:

Global Retail Electronics Manufacturer	Automatic Vehicle Location, Door Sensors, Traffic Management Centre, Reports
Global Aero-Engine Manufacturer	Proof of Delivery / Collection, Automatic Vehicle Location, Traffic Management Centre, Reports
European Electrical Goods Wholesaler	Proof of Delivery / Collection, Traffic Management Centre, Reports, PDF Data Warehouse
High Street Ladies Fashion Retailer	Automatic Vehicle Location, Door Sensors, Wireless Panic Buttons, Traffic Management Centre, Reports
Global Office Furniture Manufacturer	Automatic Vehicle Location, Reports
High Street Retailer	Proof of Delivery, Automatic Vehicle Location, Traffic Management Centre, Reports
Large UK Bakery	Proof of Delivery, Automatic Vehicle Location, Traffic Management Centre, Reports
UK Stationary Distributor	Proof of Delivery, Reports, PDF Data Warehouse
Petrol Forecourt Services Company	Automatic Vehicle Location, Reports
Aggregates Company	Automatic Vehicle Location, Dallas Key Readers, Traffic Management Centre, Reports

 

 

Tracking Hardware & Peripherals	Proof of Delivery / Collection
Real Time Event Management (TMC)	Navigation
Reporting	Real Time Traffic
Vehicle & Driver Performance Monitoring	Scheduling

 

Here are some of the recent improvements our customers have accrued through the deployment of Opus Fleet & Distribution technology:

• Turn around time reduced from 40 to 25 minutes
• 30% reduction in night outs
• An average of 2.2 hours out of 10 hour shift identified as excessive idling
• 7% reduction in fuel consumption
• 30% productivity improvement in the transport process through the compression of turn around times, leg times and more drops per vehicle per day through better visibility leading to better fixed route planning
• Route adherence resulting in a projected saving of approximately 4 million kilometres of road usage by vehicles (for the period of the contract), reducing traffic congestion, pollution and fuel
• Transport efficiencies with real-time scheduling and visibility has resulted in a fleet size reduction of 6%
• Security - reduction to 0% delivery shrinkage in 3 months
• Improved customer service with greater visibility of the supply chain allowing queries to be answered promptly with up to date information
• 85% reduction in lead time to answer queries