Thanks to GeoConcept, the job of porter becomes more accessible (shorter training courses), and managing rounds becomes easier (thanks to a cartographic frame of reference combined with an ergonomic tool). SDVP can also exactly visualize its field and optimize its logistics pattern : the company can exploit at best its available resources while enhancing its quality of service. That’s why SDVP has chosen to deploy GeoScheduling Suite for Delivery to its whole delivery rounds.

The software suite GeoScheduling Suite first collects SDVP’s whole data directly from its ERP, it then “geoptimizes” the delivery schedule by including new, cancelled or suspended subscriptions, and finally reinstalls those schedules in the ERP for an optimum use by the logistic team.

Thanks to GeoScheduling Suite, SDVP has significantly reduced the total mileage covered each day to deliver newspapers to its customers. Because it enhanced its quality of service, SDVP also increased its productivity while strongly cutting its costs down. Overall, GeoConcept’s solution will enable SDVP to simulate new service level agreements and to optimize the size of its logistic team.

“With GeoScheduling Suite, GSS for those well-informed, I found a particularly efficient and easy to deploy solution. Its optimization kernel gives us optimum and consistent results, helping us to deal with our main problematic trend : how to exploit at best our resources while complying with strong constraints : daily rounds modifications (new, cancelled or suspended subscriptions) and a newspaper that must be at the subscriber’s before 7 am !” Project Manager Mr. Dehoorne said. “No more headaches for the logistician : thanks to GSS, he has a faithful vision of his field and the means to ensure a better quality of service with the available resources” Mr. Dehoorne said.