Cédric Hervet, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Kardinal, discusses a technology-assisted approach to delivery resource management.
- How postal and parcel delivery companies manage resources
- Deciding who does what and where, and moving beyond planning via spreadsheets
- Productivity lost thanks to suboptimal route organisation
- Maximising driver productivity
- Advantages of drivers being familiar with their delivery area
- Dealing with increasingly volatile parcel volumes in a stable parcel delivery structure
- Avoiding the problem of subcontractors going out of business
- Keeping good contractors
- Using data and new methodology to create resilient, optimised delivery networks
- Putting facts and data at the centre of discussions between delivery companies and subcontractors
- Getting the balance right with delivery subcontractors and employees, including managing shift lengths and delivery route distances
- Getting to the key number of what the last mile delivery cost is
- DPD France case study
- Advanced territory analytics and optimisation
- Productivity improvements of up to 25%
- Making better decisions based on the algorithm