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Vehicle type, load & route planning and the way that customers order all impact on vehicle fill.
Click on the icons below to read ideas on improving pack fill in your organisation... |
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Top Tips
A quick reference to maximising vehicle fill. |
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Complexity Matrix
What is the impact of the constraint and how easy is it to overcome?
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What’s constraining you?
Examples of the ways in which vehicle utilisation may be constrained |
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What are the solutions?
Examples of possible solutions to improving vehicle fill and which constraints this would address. |
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Case Studies
Demonstrating how other companies have already improved their vehicle fill. |
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Top Tips
Want to improve your vehicle utilisation? Here’s our top tips:
- Ensure weighing equipment fitted to vehicle or weighbridge is used to maximum vehicle load fill within legislative requirements. Technology is available to weigh the vehicle during filling, avoiding the use of a weighbridge after the fill is already completed!
- Utilise systems/ software to design loading patterns for height, width and/ or weight restricted loads. Many companies who have an issue with weight v fill dynamics and maximising this utilise software to support vehicle load patterns.
- Review alternative equipment and automation to maximise.
- Undertake best in class benchmarking to understand other available solutions.
- Look at transport collaboration opportunities. Working with other companies where potential weight v fill is the opposite dynamic of your own business is well worth considering.
- Work with customers on forecast accuracy and agree process for substitutions to ensure full vehicles. Forecast accuracy varies greatly through industry and can have a huge impact on order quantity and thus delivery profiles.
- Implement IT systems that consider product compatibility when planning loads.
- Implement a picked pallet planning system to ensure picking does not compromise vehicle fill.
- Use cost benefit analysis to demonstrate the opportunity to increase vehicle fill by removing planning constraints.
- Introduce standard KPI management and staff training to support.
- Review receiving location through a site survey to review any possible unloading constraints and whether adaptations can be made.
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Complexity Matrix
There are many things which impact on and constrain load utilisation. As part of developing this online resource, the ECR UK Filling the Cube Subgroup has identified some of the most common constraints together with some possible solutions and an assessment of the likely pros and cons of each. This will allow you to assess which constraints apply to you and the most feasible solution for your organisation.
The complexity matrix below has been designed to give a visual illustration of the impact of each constraint and how easy they might be to overcome. You can download a full list below.
Any constraints in the red area are perceived to be the most difficult to overcome but are likely to offer the greatest business benefit, whilst those in the green area may be easier to overcome but have a lesser benefit.
You should consider whether the impact and difficulty rating would be different in your own business in order to establish a list of priorities in your decision making process.
Click on each constraint to find out more, and see possible solutions
What’s constraining you?
To download a PDF containing all the constraints shown above, and the pros and cons of each solution, click on the link below. he list has been compiled based on the understanding and experiences of members of the group in tackling issues with utilisation within their respective organisations.
View the constraints summary here [PDF]
What are the solutions?
There are many solutions to address the factors constraining load utilisation. As part of developing this online resource the ECR UK Filling the Cube Subgroup has identified some of the most common.
This list has been compiled based on the understanding and experiences of members of the group in tackling issues with utilisation within their respective organisations.
In this section we will examine each of the possible solutions, identify which of the utilisation constraints each addressed and provide an assessment of the likely pros and cons of each. This will allow you to better understand each solution and the likely benefit it might bring.
View the solutions summary here [PDF]
Case Studies
The following case studies, compiled and produced by the organisations involved, give an insight into the ways in which other companies have improved their vehicle fill.
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Optimising Load Fill: A Best Practice Guide - Next steps:
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