DSD SOLUTIONS
We think like the owner of a Direct Store Delivery (DSD) distribution business, but with detailed knowledge of sales and delivery activity based costs. These costs ignore overheads that aren’t impacted by sales and delivery service decisions.
Contrary to popular belief you don’t have to trade off service for cost reduction
Our location, cost and productivity analyses zero in on the controlable costs that can be saved by smarter planning.
LOCATION STRATEGYWhat makes it so complex?Location Strategy requires optimization tools built for multi-stop DSD networks. Route planning tools cannot comprehend multiple warehouse location options. And with widely varying drop size, trailer requirements, and visit frequency optimizing location requires a tool and process that can build master routes and minimize costs from all potential warehouse locations.
RULE BREAKERHow much are your sales and delivery ‘rules’ costing you?Business routing rules are often set restricting routes by customer type; the net result is that you add costs by splitting your business into 2 or 3 routing subsets; so two customers that are next door to each other will never be on the same truck!
COST-TO-SERVE IMPROVEMENTKnowing the cost-to-serve for each customer, chain, and channel allows you to lower your total cost-to-serve.Each stop type (e.g. grocery, convenience store) has their own fixed service time requirements regardless of how many cases you are delivering. Each visit we eliminate saves all of this fixed time and makes the remaining stops more efficient.
ROUTE OPTIMIZATIONUsing route planning as a Core Process will help you optimize your sales & delivery costs.Route Planning is hard to do well...how can we expect our route planners to be experts when they only perform reroutes once or twice per year?
