Increase Profitability with Integrated Vessel, Cargo and Crew Planning
positioning the company for growth when world markets expand. This demands an integrated approach to
planning – one that delivers full visibility into route costs and revenues, capacity utilization, optimal trip combinations and presents the financial impact of deviations from the origianl plan.
The Logic Factory (TLF) Vessel, Cargo & Crew Scheduling and Optimization Solution is an advanced planning and scheduling (APS) solution tailored specifically to maritime logistics suppliers’ needs. A single, integrated solution for planning both vessels and crew, it covers all planning horizons, including strategic, long term, short term and event handling in the execution phase. The solution optimally plans all aspects of your operations, including the distribution of loads to vessels and compartments, the assignment of crews to vessels and the repositioning of vessels to routes. Based on the Quintiq APS suite, the most advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain optimization software available on the market today, and implemented by highly qualified TLF consultants, the TLF integrated Vessel, Cargo & Crew Scheduling and Optimization Solution will assist your company in reaching its full operational and financial potential.
Key Benefits:
- Advanced business control
- Significantly lower operational costs
- Higher profitability
- Decreased IT complexity
- Improved crew retention
- Increased safety
One Company, One Solution
If your operations department and crewing department are using separate planning systems, your organization could be missing out on compelling business and cost-cutting opportunities. With a unified advanced planning solution for scheduling vessels, cargo and crews, all your operators work with the same data quality and views. This improves communication and coordination between departments, reducing the probability of costly scheduling mistakes. With the TLF solution, when an operator performs a scheduling change, the direct effects, along with the economic consequences on the next sequence of events, are immediately obvious to all the relevant parties.
Moreover, the companywide insight provided by the solution enables operators to compare the actual costs of different planning decisions, such as how to allocate shipments to vessels or on which contracts to bid. Immediate visibility into the real costs of alternative options greatly improves the profitability of individual trips and of the company as a whole.
Tailored to Your Planning Needs
Because every shipping company has its own specific planning preferences and requirements, having a planning and scheduling solution that perfectly fits your organization’s needs is essential. The TLF shipping solution has a client-configurable layer in which all of your company’s specific planning constraints are entered into the system, guaranteeing the planning solution will fully match your organization’s planning requirements. This unique architecture gives you the best of both worlds: the fast implementation and cost effective upgrades normally associated with out-of-the-box software and a solution that meets your organization’s planning needs 100 percent.
Broader Control, Improved Decision Making
Shipping companies work in a complex and dynamic environment, with numerous factors that must be taken into consideration when planning vessels, cargo and crew. With the TLF shipping solution, you gain companywide overview and insight and thus significantly improve your operators’ span of control. Based on company data, operators can accurately determine the most appropriate ship and crew for each trip. The TLF solution also allows operators to determine the most cost-effectiveroute, including stowage planning, where to bunker, where to a clean a ship and whether to use toll canals. The result: more ships planned by each operator, more effective decision making and more profitable trips.
Improve Crew Retention, Minimize Labor Costs
Finding loyal, certified seafarers can be a difficult task, making employee satisfaction and retention vital to smooth, cost-effective operations. Advanced, integrated planning using the TLF shipping solution significantlyimproves the reliability and certainty of your planning. This means you can let your crew know months or even years ahead of time what their schedules will be, while also respecting their individual preferences. Your seafarers will greatly appreciate this information.
Moreover, the TLF shipping solution helps you balance crew utilization to ensure optimal availability of your workforce. Since employee preferences can be entered into the system, you can easily take into consideration the preferences of your officers for certain routes and ships thereby improving employee satisfaction and loyalty.
Increase Profitability through Better Resource Utilization and Route Assignments
With the TLF solution, you can optimize vessel utilization, chose routes more profitably and significantly reduce idle time and ballast runs. The TLF shipping solution can determine the optimal route by taking into consideration crossing and mileage costs, special equipment requirements, the profit potential of each order and other parameters. The improved profitability will be quickly felt in your company’s bottom line.
Maximize Cargo Space and Safety
Combining cargos can be an extremely complex and dangerous task. The TLF solution easily handles the complexity of assigning cargo to vessels and compartments, ensuring the safety of your vessels. In addition, the solution can exactly determine capacity utilization so you can fill ships to their maximum with loads from the spot market. And because price is the key determiner in the market, with oversight into total costs provided by the solution, you can cost projects to make profits.