Break fixed routes only for absences, cut substitute delivery work 60%

Can partial optimisation that keeps fixed routes intact turn delivery costs for printed materials and packaging into recoverable charges?

Hitachi and KSK have completed a trial that rebuilds fixed routes only when a delivery worker is absent. The 60% reduction is not in total logistics costs, but in the substitute delivery work performed by sales staff. For printers, the first hurdle is whether delivery terms can be translated into language a system can calculate.

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Break fixed routes only for absences, cut substitute delivery work 60%

Hitachi and KSK broke up fixed routes only when an absence occurred. They kept normal-day runs in place and reassigned delivery destinations only in the part affected by a missing delivery worker. It is an approach that avoids recalculating every route and limits the scope of change.…

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