Shipment Planning that Delivers Results

CTI’s Shipment Planning module is the only packaging–industry-specific shipment planning solution available today.

Shipment Planning is simple to use, yet extremely powerful. The module works as the front-end of the production scheduling process to determine the best time—from the shipping perspective—your orders should be complete and ready to load. At the back end of the scheduling process, CTI Shipment Planning displays or prints the actual loading plan that specifies your loading times, locations, sequences, quantities, and the specific locations of orders within each trailer&reducing shipping errors and increasing on-time deliveries. CTI Shipment Planning uses a proprietary cubing algorithm to determine optimum use of available trailers/containers—while integration with the Microsoft^® MapPoint^® Web service facilitates efficient shipment routing, and increases on-time deliveries.

Full integration with the rest of our suite of solutions enables you to react to changing customer demand, and to identify problems before they affect production efficiency. Combined with optimized route planning and customer-supplied constraints, our solution reduces the number of trailers required and total trips made—lowering fuel consumption and reducing other freight related costs.

Features and Functions

With CTI’s Shipment Planning you can:

• Improve shipment planning and scheduling
• Easily conduct “What if?” scenarios and evaluate schedule changes prior to making any commitments
• Generate pick lists and loading instructions
• Use live production data to ensure schedule accuracy
• Receive automated delivery receipt notification
• Receive exception alerting to inform planners of potential scheduling problems
• Get real-time reporting
• And more…