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Better Cost Control and Increased Efficiency

What can give you an edge in an increasingly competitive, always-changing business environment? ILOG technology helps you solve complex planning, scheduling or logistics management problems while tying these operations to your corporate objectives. The result is reduced costs, increased revenues and improved service quality. Logistics
Accomplish key objectives
Manufacturers, carriers and logistics service providers achieve essential goals with ILOG-based solutions:
  • Manage transportation spending & costs
  • Reduce cycle times
  • Increase asset utilization
  • Efficiently schedule operations
  • Manage corporate growth strategies
  • Improve corporate competitiveness
  • Deliver excellent service
Deploy the right solutions
Companies can tap into the power of ILOG’s intelligent technology to significantly improve operational efficiency in key areas:

Improve operational efficiency
Powerful ILOG solutions are being deployed by many companies to increase efficiency and achieve the most critical goals:

  • Manage transportation spending and costs
    Improve load consolidation, mode & carrier selection and route optimization to help your bottom line.
  • Reduce cycle times
    Find the best way to rapidly deliver goods without breaking your budget.
  • Increase asset utilization
    Add stops to routes and alter hub-spoke patterns to reduce excess capacity.
  • Efficiently schedule operations
    Scheduling facility resources while planning transportation reduces detention charges and streamlines the workload.
  • Manage corporate growth strategies
    Fusing scenario planning into corporate strategies reduces risk and opens up new opportunities
  • Improve corporate competitiveness
    Agile logistics planning enables faster response to ever-changing market conditions.
  • Deliver excellent service
    Finding the right balance between service and cost for each segment of your customer base gives you a competitive advantage.

ILOG solutions address key technical challenges:

  • Planning & scheduling
    Improve business performance and increase corporate value. Today’s supply chains greatly benefit from the best optimization technology. ILOG is the optimization leader; its software powers major SCM suites and is also part of the new ILOG PowerOps applications, including ILOG Transport PowerOps
  • Shipment loading
    Create the most efficient transportation plans while boosting operational excellence. ILOG Transport PowerOps evaluates logistics strategies and predicts the impact of changes.
  • Route optimization
    Cut operational costs while improving service. ILOG Transport PowerOps delivers ROI by reducing travel miles, meeting service levels and assigning the right fleet to the right trips at the right time.

Leading technology for logistics planning
Major supply chain companies like SAP, Oracle, i2 and Manugistics rely on ILOG optimization engines. ILOG’s leadership in mathematical and constraint programming gives logistics customers the benefit of both methods to solve a wider range of planning problems. In addition, specific logistics problems can be addressed with ILOG Transport PowerOps. And ILOG’s award-winning visualization solutions simplify the creation of custom maps and Gantt charts that enhance logistics planning.

Next steps
Learn more about how ILOG can contribute to your bottom line in logistics planning:

ILOG Logistics Partners
  Many companies that provide logistics solutions - which optimize the organization and distribution of freight - rely on ILOG technology, including:

i2
Logic Tools
Manhattan Associates
Manugistics
Nistevo
OneNetwork
Oracle
Red Prairie
SAP
SmartOps
SSA Global
Viewlocity
 
Seminario Trasporto Swintel e ILOG
  30 May 2006
Rome, Italy
 
 
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Customer Spotlight
  "One of the things that challenges us is that different businesses have widely different sized problems. Using ILOG Dispatcher, our solution method is robust enough to handle problems varying greatly in scale."  
     
  Ted Gifford
Director of Research
Schneider Logistics
February 2004
 
   
 
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