What is a transportation plan?
A transportation plan defines how goods and merchandise are shipped from a starting point to a destination, using the company’s available human and material resources. Depending on the scope of the transportation plan (upstream, downstream, global, etc.), the departure and/or arrival points may include suppliers, factories, hubs, warehouses, agencies, or end and internal customers.
What are the objectives of a transportation plan?
The goal of a transportation plan is to deliver products on time and at the lowest possible cost. As the backbone of business operations, it determines incoming and outgoing trucks at each site, directly impacting their activity. The transportation plan also plays a key role in meeting customer delivery commitments.
Since transportation plans are costly, the objective is to move goods as efficiently as possible: minimizing kilometers traveled (and thus CO₂ emissions), maximizing truck capacity, and reducing the number of vehicles required.
Why is it important to optimize your transportation plan?
Optimizing your transportation plan helps reduce costs. In a context of rising transport expenses (particularly due to fuel price increases), where competitiveness can hinge on just a few cents per package, controlling spending is crucial.
Additionally, stricter environmental regulations (such as the introduction of Low Emission Zones) and financial penalties are pushing companies to better manage their CO₂ emissions—primarily by reducing the distance vehicles travel.
How does EURODECISION support companies in optimizing their transportation plans?
EURODECISION offers to optimize your transportation plan using its SCOP Transport component, leveraging your resources as efficiently as possible to meet the following goals:
- Economic efficiency: minimize financial costs (reduce mileage and optimize vehicle capacity)
- Environmental impact: cut CO₂ emissions
- Commercial advantage: refine delivery lead times to stand out from competitors
- Quality assurance: ensure compliance of your goods by minimizing transshipment breaks
With its expertise and industry know-how, EURODECISION contributes to optimizing and planning transportation at every level of the supply chain:
- Optimizing procurement plans
- Optimizing distribution plans
- Organizing inter-plant/depot transportation
- Optimizing courier/e-commerce/groupage transport plans
Beyond delivering an optimized transport plan with precise truck departure and arrival times down to the minute, SCOP Transport provides a clear overview of inbound and outbound flows for each site in your network.
In addition to substantial cost savings, SCOP Transport’s key advantage lies in its adaptability—it can account for industry-specific complexities while enabling users to interact with the tool in real time.
How does a transportation plan optimization project unfold with EURODECISION experts?
We quickly organize workshops with your operational teams to delve into the specifics of your needs. We also collect a dataset from you to assess the problem’s complexity and perform an initial simulation using our SCOP Transport component.
A standard tool implementation project follows four phases:
- Scoping and specifications
- Configuration and MVP (Minimum Viable Product) delivery
- Industrialization and component enhancement
- Support and maintenance
Why trust EURODECISION for your transportation optimization project?
EURODECISION has deep expertise in the transportation sector, with over 30 years of experience. Our clients recognize us as optimization specialists who also understand their operational challenges. To better grasp on-the-ground complexities, we advocate for on-site visits at the start of every project.
Another key strength is that our components adapt to our clients—not the other way around. We design all our solutions to accommodate each client’s unique complexities and nuances.
Finally, with optimization and artificial intelligence at our core, our components deliver significant operational gains. This is why clients across diverse industries already trust EURODECISION to optimize their transportation plans.
“Optimizing Your Transportation Plan: From Mathematics to Deployment”
Discover insights from EURODECISION experts, Mohamed Longou (Supply Chain Consultant) and Benoît Rottembourg (then Associate Director of Pricing & Revenue Management), on the challenges of Transportation Plan Optimization.
