Company’s Challenge

The key challenge was to optimize in synergy the 3D loading of compartmented electric light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and the planning of last-mile home deliveries. This required:

• Assigning orders to the appropriate compartments of the truck (which vary in size), ensuring one customer per compartment when possible (or several compartments depending on order volume)
• Selecting the right compartment type for each order (with modular compartments reconfigurable at each routing plan)
• Organizing the transport plan to account for reverse logistics and multiple delivery routing using a heterogeneous fleet of electric vehicles

Solution provided

The deployed solution significantly enhanced quality of service identified as the company’s top priority by minimizing package damages during transport while adhering to stacking constraints.

It also reduced transport capacity needs by 25%, while minimizing loading and unloading times across the fleet.