Automation of fresh and frozen food transportation

For many manufacturers who are just entering the retail market of Ukraine, one of the main problems is to solve the problem of delivering their products to the shelves in time, taking into account the requirements of time and on the preservation of consumer and quality properties.

The solution to this problem could be the outsourcing of distribution logistics or the automation of the management of its own transportation logistics. This is all the more relevant when you already have a fleet of cars. If we consider the second option – the management of its own logistics, the task is further complicated by the fact that it is necessary to plan the delivery of products requiring special temperature conditions, adhering to the delivery windows set points of sale (stores, supermarkets).

One of the solutions to these problems is the introduction of hardware and software module Tocan Frozen TMS, which allows the logistician or dispatcher (the driver also) by using GPS monitoring to see the current location of cars on the map in real time and monitor the readings of all sensors and temperature controllers. It is part of the full-featured transportation management system Tocan TMS.

On the planning side, the logistician can direct machines by grouping delivery points or by allocating separate zones, where certain conditions and features of the location of delivery points (city, district, time for delivery, time windows, priority, etc.) are taken into account. Thus, the system will be able to determine the optimal route for the distribution of requests. Even if an unplanned change in route or delivery conditions occurs during transportation (the store has changed the time window due to ramp repair), the system can reschedule for the new conditions within seconds.

In general, the Tocan Frozen TMS transport module for transportation and delivery management of fresh and frozen products is based on the integration of telemetry data, can be easily adapted to individual customer requirements and allows to implement the following functions:
– logistics planning and comparison of plan-fact: planning routes and deviations, tying delivery conditions and constraints in the planning process.
– Accounting for economic indicators (if necessary).
– monitoring the status of several temperature zones, reading their tightness (closing / opening doors), control access to the cargo compartment.
– control of freezing/defrosting cycles, monitoring of the state of the cooling unit.
– Tracking the relevance of medical books for drivers, passports for goods.
– batch management, unloading/loading control.
– convenient reporting forms, instant access to data, storage of event history, the ability to track the history of the temperature mode of each individual group of goods.

Using the Tocan Frozen TMS module in practice offers the following advantages:
1. high precision and speed of planning: the elimination of the human factor, the speed of processing 1,000 requests for transportation – no more than 2 minutes
2. the efficiency of vehicle utilization is increased by reducing downtime and optimizing mileage or motor hours.
3. fuel costs for the fleet are reduced from 15 to 30%.

For the convenience of working with Tocan Frozen TMS, there is a “cloud” version, which does not require your own server capacity.

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