Driving down operating costs
August 1st 2010 Electrical supplies specialist, Rexel, has implemented an
advanced computer system for coordinating next day
deliveries to contractors throughout North West England. With
the technology developed by Paragon Software Systems, the
company aims to reduce road miles and drive down operating costs
through improvements in fleet usage and maximising vehicle loads.
"The Paragon software allows us to maximise the use of our fleet
and drivers, ensuring that we utilise vehicle capacities and meet
delivery time windows.With these efficiency improvements, we can
reduce mileage, fuel usage and fleet operational costs," says Neil
Murphy,Transport Analyst,Newey & Eyre, a division of Rexel UK.
Rexel UK currently runs 16 to 17 routes to provide up to 350
deliveries per day using its fleet of 3.5 and 7.5 tonne trucks.The
routing and scheduling optimisation software completely automates
the company's transport planning process and provides accurate
routes, schedules and driver manifests while allowing operator
intervention if required.
"Rexel UK takes pride in providing good customer service and
Paragon helps us to achieve our delivery goals.The software
automates our planning, producing accurate routes and schedules at
the touch of a button," says Neil Murphy.
Neil Murphy comments on the successful use of the map-based
software at the company's regional distribution centre (RDC) in
Warrington and says that the company plans to use it for other
operations in the UK.
"Paragon has proven extremely effective at our Warrington RDC.
Following on from this success,we plan to roll out the software
across the rest of the business and gain further efficiencies UK wide,"
he says.
Rexel UK is a business-to-business distributor of electrical
installation supplies.The company focuses on the industrial MRO
(Maintenance Repair and Operations), safety and electrical markets.
Rexel operates in 34 countries with 2,300 branches, a distribution
network of more than 40 brands and 29,000 employees.
Throughout the world, it is accelerating electrical advances in close
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