Optimize your resources with COMMANDoptimize

You may ask, what is Dispatch Optimization? Simply put, Dispatch Optimization is optimizing the use of your dispatching resources. Your plants, trucks, drivers, and raw materials are managed as accurately as possible to meet or exceed customer demands and still generate the maximum profit for your company. You define what is optimal for your business and our dispatch optimixation tool

COMMANDoptimize continually adjusts the operational plan for your dispatch day by taking into account everything from deadhead costs and plant loading speeds to driver seniority and mix costs. Factoring in real-time changes based upon customer requests, traffic and weather conditions, and emergency situations, COMMANDoptimize funnels in all available information to readjust the real-time schedule on a minute-by-minute basis, ensuring that costs and customer service remain in balance. Let COMMANDoptimize drive down your delivery costs while maintaining desired service levels every minute of the day. With COMMANDoptimize you can lower the total number of trucks called in. You can optimize driver utilization in the morning, in the yard, en route, on the job, and right up until clock-out. Truck counts, locations, and capacities are all evaluated continually to ensure that the optimal operational plan is being executed every minute of the day. Your dispatch team will be ready and able to recover quickly from changes or emergency situations.

COMMANDoptimize General Features

• Allocates loads to trucks in advance for the entire dispatch day
• Considers the entire network of plants, trucks, and drivers
• Dynamically reschedules the entire dispatch day in seconds upon order changes, truck status updates, or if a plant/truck goes out of service
• Dispatchers are allowed to choose the optimized suggestion or reject it, in either case the dispatch day is automatically replanned based upon the dispatcher’s action
• Optimized Cost Balancing - Allows you to define and tailor the balance between service and the utilization you want to achieve for your business
• Plant loading and material requirements forecasting
• Produces a precise driver call-in schedule for the next business day
• Assigns drivers to loads based on seniority, union rules, and availability
• Allows drivers to be assigned to tasks such as working in the yard or batching
• Offers start time ranges for orders
• “Learns” the unload rate of selected jobs and adjusts shipments accordingly
• Allows “lock-in” or exclusion of orders from certain truck types and/or attributes
• Allows orders to be assigned to a specific plant or available to all
• Allows plants to be specified as unavailable for certain orders
• Suggests different “return to” plant as truck departs jobsite
• Allows priority level to be assigned to customers, projects, and orders

“COMMANDoptimize has given our dispatch team real-time dispatch suggestions to increase fleet productivity, lower delivery costs, and provide superior truck utilization. Right-sizing the fleet for next day scheduling has become an easier task. The dispatchers have accepted the COMMANDoptimize “co-pilot” focusing on efficiency and service, and they can now be more proactive in meeting the challenges of the dispatch day.”

Sean M. Regan
Ready-Mixed Concrete
Company Denver, Colorado

“With Optimization, we are able to use fewer trucks/drivers to deliver the same volume of material. At the same time, we are maintaining or improving on our on-time delivery rates.”

Steve Thomson
General Manager
Syar Concrete

The COMMANDoptimize Engine. At the heart of our Dispatch Optimization solution is our long-standing partner, ORTEC, one of the world’s largest providers of advanced planning and optimization software solutions. ORTEC has been in business for 27 years, has over 1,250 customers worldwide, and over 700 employees in offices in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Pacific Region.