“Route Creation Services” is the name we’ve coined for the modelling work we do for clients who either don’t have the ongoing need for an Odyssey licence and/or don’t have the resources available to use Odyssey as a modelling tool.
And business is booming! The revenue we received from Route Creation Services alone for the past financial year was over 50% more than from the previous year, and our forecasts for this year are even better. A lot of the projects we conducted were “tender modelling” projects, where we use Odyssey to estimate the travel time, travel distance, work time and transport costs, based on order and customer data provided as part of the tender process to the bidding transport companies.
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Although we worked on a number of different tenders, including pharmacy and magazine contracts, the tenders that kept us particularly busy were the national tenders for Coles and Woolworths. I’m happy to say that we participated in the success of a few of the winners - which, of course, is very satisfying.
We were also commissioned by a number of companies to re-optimise the fixed routes used by their vans, trucks and sales reps. Runs for implementation require detailed information about the current run structure, but our clients find the data collection and documentation exercise well worth the effort, considering the cost savings realised.
If you want to analyse, model and/or cost your transport or sales rep operations, or re-optimise your runs for implementation, please give me a call.
Tim Stanley
Logistics Consultant
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