Shipment Planning Solution

Facing increasing competition, ever higher cost of energy and raw materials, and price erosion—packaging manufacturers are increasingly challenged to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, and improve their bottom-line.

Industry Challenges

Lack of adequate shipment planning processes and systems results in packaging manufacturers facing a number of challenges, these include:

• Lack of visibility (real-time and historical information)
• Underutilized trailers
• Inefficient dock operations
• Poor or nonexistent route planning/optimization
• Excessive trailer pool or fleet size
• Poor or non-existent integration between production planning and shipping department
• Reduced productivity and more…

Failing to address these challenges is results in increased costs and shrinking profits—compounded with low profit margins. Adoption of modern shipment planning processes and solutions enables packaging manufacturers to deal with these issues and increase profitability across their organizations and supply chains.

The CTI Solution

CTI's Shipment Planning software enables packaging companies to address the challenges they face through improvements in shipping operations and related best-practices. This will result in improved efficiencies which include:

• More effective route planning and optimization—fewer miles, more efficient delivery—rather than making multiple less than truckload (LTL) deliveries to individual customers, CTI shipment planning optimizes routes and consolidates shipments.
• Increased trailer utilization—due to better load planning, consolidation of less than truckload shipments allows optimized cubing of loads and improved dock operations.
• Real-time connectivity—CTI Shipment Planning can leverage the Internet and wireless networks, to provide real-time information to shippers and customers—offering unprecedented levels of visibility across the entire supply chain. Wireless connectivity allows plants to receive real time shipping data—including signed BOL’s, arrival condition reports, etc…