Transport Planning & Delivery Optimization within the Retail Industry

Key Challenges in Retail Transport

Cost Management

High fuel consumption and vehicle wear and tear. Increasing labor costs due to inefficient route planning.

Delivery Efficiency

Meeting tight delivery windows and ensuring timely arrivals. Managing last-minute changes and disruptions effectively.

Customer Satisfaction

Keeping customers informed about delivery status. Ensuring accurate estimated times of arrival (ETA).

Brands Trusting PTV Logistics Technology

Benefits for Retail Companies

Improved Delivery Performance
Optimized routes and real-time updates lead to more reliable and efficient deliveries.
Cost Savings
Reduced fuel consumption, vehicle maintenance costs, and labor expenses through efficient route planning.
Customer Loyalty
Enhanced delivery reliability and transparency increase customer satisfaction and retention.

Solutions for Retail

Transport Control Tower

Cloud-based Route Optimization

Proof of Delivery (ePOD) & Mobile Driver App

Track & Trace

Fully Automated Route Planning

ETA Calculation, Predictions & Notifications

Retail Route Optimization with PTV OptiFlow

Revolutionize your route planning with our record-breaking cloud solution. The more complex the task, the greater the savings and dispatcher relief we can provide. PTV OptiFlow's adaptability to individual customer needs allows for the full automation and modeling of complex planning requirements. This ensures high solution quality and practicality. Our cloud-based algorithm calculates large solution spaces quickly and efficiently, enabling optimal routes.

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Retail Transport Visibility with PTV Axylog

Enhance dispatcher satisfaction with improved overview, transparency, and networking. The PTV Axylog platform enables real-time collaboration among planners, customers, subcontractors, and drivers. Track deliveries, exchange documents, and receive reliable ETAs and notifications for delivery changes or delays. The PTV Axylog Transport Visibility Platform allows all parties to actively shape and optimize the delivery process.

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Related Products

Cloud-based route optimisation

PTV OptiFlow

Best-in-class route optimisation built for fast, scalable, and fully automated planning through a cloud-based platform.

Transport visibility software

PTV Axylog

PTV Axylog includes solutions as a transport control tower, digital proof of delivery, slot management and digital document management, that enables you to keep track of your orders, routes, and vehicles.

Customer Success Story

Success Story

Embarking all supply chain actors on a quest to real-time transport visibility – a lesson from Fileni Group

The Fileni Group is a major player in the national poultry and rabbit sector with a turnover of 531 million Euro. The company handles around 3,000 daily deliveries, reaching more than 9,400 customers every month. In addition to these, 80 trips are made daily for the internal supply chain (bringing feed to the farms, transporting animals within sites).

Albert Heijn

Albert Heijn: Retail planned with OptiFlow

Albert Heijn’s extensive and complex distribution network consists of 1,100 Albert Heijn stores, 600 Gall & Gall shops, 530 Etos locations and 7 home shop centres.

Codè Crai Ovest

With real-time overview, retail chain achieves logistics efficiency

Codè Crai Ovest is one of the biggest supermarket chains in Northwest Italy, with 357 stores and annual sales of over 330 million euros.

Customers Recommendation

“This (the software) gives us much better control of operations, enabling us to offer excellent service to our customers."

Jasper van Dooijeweert

Head of Planning

"PTV Logistics is a great and energetic partner with extensive knowledge."

Martijn Beerepoot

Project manager distribution and transport

"This is a win-win solution for all key players : the carriers, the cooperatives, but also those in the background who have to manage all the back-office and customer service issues."

Giuseppe Mariella

Logistikleiter

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If you’d like to learn more about how PTV technology can help optimise your delivery operations, get in touch for a free benchmark or request a demo.

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