ASCALi LoadPlanner - Making Complex Loading Tasks More Straight-Forward

ASCALi's Innovative Load Planner Application has been developed to give our clients safer and more efficient transport operations.

Create Safe and Efficient Transport Loads with ASCALi LoadPlanner

ASCALi has developed its LoadPlanner application specifically to meet the needs of our client base. Many organisations have real challenges in managing to efficiently plan safe loads when they are handling non-standard product types. It is challenges like this that we have seen regularly that has led us to develop the ASCALi LoadPlanner application. It can be applied in any product set with modifications to enable it to fit our clients’ needs to help them deliver safety and cost efficiency.

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See your Load plans Visually

Give your loading teams and drivers clarity of what is where on the vehicle.

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When you are producing a load plan for an awkward load, one of the key things that can help make the process work smoothly is a clear visual representation of where each customer’s order is expected to be on the plan. Our load planner application enables our clients to clearly see how and why a load has been constructed in a given way.

The location for each customer is clearly identified with how big a proportion of the available space that customers order should take. This can enable the loading operatives to very clearly understand the order in which they should address the vehicle and let them see any challenges with loading planning or load security in advance.

A secondary benefit is that the visual load plan enables your drivers to clearly understand where on the vehicle they need to look for each of their drops. On long multi crop routes this can prove invaluable in speeding up the delivery process and minimising any confusion at the customer delivery point.

Why not contact ASCALi today to talk to us about how our expert-led approach to supply chain and logistics consulting, and innovative solution applications could help you streamline your operations.

Set and follow Your Business Rules

Define what is important to you to ensure your loads meet your needs.

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There can be any number of business rules that can be assigned to how you make up a load. This can be defined by product size shape or even orientation. It can be customer related in terms of specific challenges at a customer location, for example do you need to load that specific customer’s orders on the near side of the vehicle to enable safe offloading? You may have height or stacking limitations for your products, or there may be manual handling considerations that need to be factored into the process.

Regardless of the considerations you apply to your loading factors, we can configure our load planner to meet your specific product or customer challenges. We do not attempt to enforce the applications rules upon your operation. We recognise that your loading characteristics and ruleset have been developed over many years of operation, and it is our job to ensure that you can fulfil those business requirements it is the expertise of the ASCALi team that ensures that your requirements are met and that your loads as planned are safe and secure.

Please read more about how we can help you streamline your transport operations here.

Test and Retest Loading Scenarios

Use the load planner to improve loading efficiency and vehicle fill rates.

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The ASCALi load planner application does not just help you do your day job that bit quicker. It can be used to help you gain significantly more efficiency across your loads, and also to train your transport planning optimization software to fully maximise the available cube of your vehicles for planning customer deliveries.

Using the load planner you are able to test the impacts of changing settings within your load planning software by looking at real routes as they would be compiled to establish where you may hit breakpoints on your routes, by specific vehicle type. This process can prove invaluable in firstly filling your vehicles, but also preventing the dreaded situation of bust outs with all of the customer service issues that this entails.
It is possible to integrate the load planning tool into the outputs of your routing package, streamlining the process further and delivering A seamless transport and load planning optimisation process.

In real world client delivery it has been demonstrated that it can be possible to identify up to 50% more capacity on vehicles and certain vehicle types by using the ascali load planner to test how a route is compiled. These benefits are immeasurable when you are attempting to cut your fleet costs, reduce Rd miles and improve your sustainability.

Load planner is just one of our exciting supply chain focused applications that the team at ASCALi have developed. Why not take a look at our ASCALiNet® logistics network optimisation application, or SKUBE®, our inventory modelling and visualisation application to see where these solutions could bring value to your supply chain operations.

LoadPlanner Optimisation Case Study

Transforming Loading Operations with LoadPlanner

In this case study, we show how the team at ASCALi uses the applications we have developed to drive significantly enhanced operations for our client, Deanta Doors. Faced with challenging and time-consuming planning processes, and shifts in customer behaviour, there was a real challenge to keep up with the pace of change alongside the growth of the business. The ASCALi team delivered a great solution to what was a real business dilemma.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is ASCALi LoadPlanner?
Our innovative application, LoadPlanner has been specifically designed to meet the needs of our varied client base in helping our customers create and maintain efficient and safe vehicle loads. It is a detailed software application developed by our team in house who recognised the challenges our clients face in managing specific loading challenges. It helps build in company’s rule-sets to enable teams to create loads are efficient and safe for their businesses, customers and team members.
How does Load Planner Work?
Load planner is configured to understand the specialist handling characteristics of your product and your vehicle set up. This enables the development of the rules that are applicable to your business to be set within the application. Once these rules are set, the application then takes your customer orders as you have routed them in drop sequence and fills the vehicle, drop by drop ensuring that best loading practises are applied at all times. Once the application has produced it's draft plan, your product experts have the option to review the load and amend order placement by simply dragging and dropping orders to where you want them on the vehicle. If you do amend a load, and you break any of your customer or product rules the application will tell you.
Will ASCALi LoadPlanner work for Us?
In all likelihood the answer is yes. Very few businesses have the luxury or simply being able to load out full vehicle loads going to a single customer destination. As soon as you start compiling multi-drop loads, no matter the product set or handling characteristics of your goods, LoadPlanner can help you optimise and correctly place your loads on your vehicles to make for safe loading and efficient unloading at the customer delivery point.
Can we buy the LoadPlanner Application?
Like all the applications in the ASCALi suite of Supply Chain Optimisation systems, LoadPlanner has been developed based upon the needs of our consultancy clients. Typically the best route we advise is to apply the application through a consulting process where our expert team can not only help you set up the application, but also drive enhanced, streamlined planning processes into your operation. That gives our experts the chance to fully understand your business rules to ensure that the application fully meets your needs. At the end of that process, you will receive a licenced copy of the software to keep, requiring only a small ongoing licencing fee.