Advanced Process Combinatorics - Dispatch Planning System Overview

Dispatch Planning System

The Dispatch Planning System (DPS) is a software package for load creation. DPS integrates seamlessly with order systems and route management software to convert a set of raw order details into an easy-to-use set of pick tickets which describe the contents, how to pick each pallet, and where they go on the truck.

How can the Dispatch Planning System improve your operations?

Greatly Increased Productivity

The ability of DPS to automatically generate ready-to-pick pallets yields substantial productivity gains. Pickers no longer have to spend time and effort converting a long list of order items into a set of pallets. All of their time is spent on picking and loading the truck.

Significant Cost Savings

DPS provides two great benefits which result in immediate cost reductions. Training costs (and the lower productivity) for new workers are reduced significantly. The real time status updates of DPS can help reduce overtime costs by projecting the need and type of overtime needed early in the shift. DPS can also help improve warehouse layout for picking.

Increased Fulfillment Accuracy

The pallets generated by DPS are fully accurate tickets based on the orders. Mispicks are significantly reduced. Customer satisfaction is improved and the cost and hassle of returned cases caused by manual translation of orders to pallets is eliminated.

Automated Palletization

The key benefit of DPS is that it can generate stable pallets optimized for picking, truck loading, and delivery fully automatically. Other systems just help a supervisor to design pallets on a computer - DPS requires no supervisor interaction to produce excellent pallets. Considering the number of package types and sizes, stability considerations, and truck bays which may have different sizes, it's not an easy task to design a high quality pallet. DPS has a proprietary approach that is fast and accurate. This allows the supervisors to spend more of their time on the warehouse floor.

High Quality Pallets

There are a large number of factors to consider in designing a pallet besides stability constraints: location of stock within the warehouse, where the pallet will go on the truck, how to split cases for orders with multiple pallets, customer requirements for offloading, and preferences for which workers may be in different areas. DPS not only creates stable pallets, but high quality ones that account for all these important preferences and more.

Designed for Beverage Industry

DPS was designed specifically for the beverage industry, by a partnership between Advanced Process Combinatorics and customers, to bring the best technology available to meet your needs.

Learn more about... Benefits -- Features

The Dispatch Planning System uses proprietary VirtECS^® Solver technology to provide automated pallet generation like no other software can. For more information or to discuss how the Dispatch Planning System can help streamline your operations and significantly reduce costs, contact us at: info@combination.com or 765-497-9969. You can also download a PDF brochure on the features and benefits of DPS.

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