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Which dispatch and routing rules cost us the most, and which work best?

Replay real operations to find which rules cause delays and empty miles, and which practices to standardise.

The decision it informs

Which rules to change, which depot practices to copy and where to add capacity.

Why a dashboard cannot answer it

A dashboard shows late deliveries and empty miles. It cannot show the sequence of decisions that led there, or test whether a different rule would have done better.

What we ask in the first week

The questions behind the question.

  • Which rules are written down, and which live in people's heads?
  • Which depots or planners perform best, and does anyone know why?
  • What is the cost of a late delivery against an empty mile?
  • Which constraints are real, and which are habit?
Data we would look at
Orders and promised datesTrips, routes and stopsVehicle and driver availabilityDepot dwell timesDelay reasons and claims
How we would analyse it

Methods, chosen for this question.

Process miningThe real path an order takes, step by step, and where it waits.
Depot and planner comparisonWhat the best performers do differently, tested against the data.
SimulationReplay a month of real orders under a different rule to see the effect.
  1. 01Scope
  2. 02Immerse
  3. 03Analyse
  4. 04Test the evidence
  5. 05Read out and hand over
What you would get

Findings you can act on.

A map of the real processWhere orders wait and which rule or handover causes it.
A rule comparisonThe effect of each candidate rule on delay and cost, from replaying real orders.
A playbookThe best depot practice, written so another depot can adopt it.
How a driver ranking readsSchematic, no values
Each bar is the size of a factor's effect and the marker is the range around it. In a real deep dive both come from your data.
Scenarios you could then run

Ask what-if, on your own numbers.

  • What if the cut-off moves an hour earlier?
  • What if loads below a threshold wait for consolidation?
  • What if one depot adds a dock for a week?
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