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A Keystone in Your Logistics Operation?

Your logistics operation is as complex and as unique as your fingerprint. Where and how does Load Planning fit?

Fitting into a niche is never easy; after all, it’s there for one very good reason: no-one has been able to fill it successfully before. Load Planning and Load Optimization is such a niche: it is usually a detail in a much larger operation, and as such can sometimes have difficulty making it off the starting blocks.

This is not to belittle the potential returns on such a “detail,” however! Efficient load planning can form the keystone of an efficient operation. It helps you plan, save time and streamline an operation in an ever-increasingly competitive business world.

Over the next few weeks I hope to demonstrate why this often overlooked part of your operation should be considered as part of your overall logistics strategy, and how MagicLogic’s flagship Load Planning product, Cube-IQ, can help.

Filling the niche: Small , often overlooked details can still form a keystone component in your operation.

Figure 1. A highly-mixed furniture load run through the Cube-IQ Load Planning software. Improvement over the manual load was 8.4% resulting in a saving of thousands of dollars on the overall shipment. Cube-IQ also ensured that complete furniture sets were grouped, and that fragile items were safely stowed in the top of the container.

So what is Load Planning?

Load Planning encapsulates the process of selecting products, selecting containers, and efficiently combining both into a safe, accurate and cost-effective load. In the simplest case this could be loading a selection of products onto a pellet or into a truck, but the principle extends to complete automation of product and container selection, optimization and even physical loading.

In this blog I will discuss how load planning can fit into an existing logistics operation, and introduce Cube-IQ as a proposed solution or enhancement for your Load Planning requirements.

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