Auto VLB truck load optimization software

AutoVLB works on the premise that the more product you can legally and efficiently load on your trucks, the greater your profit.

AutoVLB (Automatic Vehicle Load Builder) minimizes supply chain transportation costs by maximizing the loads on all trucks in a way that cannot be achieved manually or with non-optimizing systems. In fact, with AutoVLB you can probably save between 4 and 7 percent on shipping costs. Most companies think their loads are full but time after time, the AutoVLB optimization software has been able to add product to generate bigger shipments.

How does AutoVLB work?

AutoVLB takes requirements, for example what is shipping from a plant to a warehouse, and automatically turns this demand into efficient, low-cost truckloads that use almost every last pound or cube of capacity. Loads organized by AutoVLB are legal, damage free and maxed out.

To maximize truckloads, AutoVLB uses information such as:

=> size and type of truck
=> special state restrictions such as California's kingpin rule (Bridge Formula)
axle weight limits
=> whether or not an item is stackable
=> what is needed today, tomorrow and into the future

An optimized load is useless if the forklift driver can't get the load balanced and legal. To make sure loads are not held up at the scales and arrive damage-free, AutoVLB creates a loading diagram and a case pick sequence for every shipment.  It can do that because it incorporates both AutoPalletP3 (optimized mixed product case picking) and AutoLoaderT3 (optimized load building) software that has proven itself in some of the biggest and best-run shipping operations in the world



The bottom line is savings both money and the environment

AutoVLB has been proven by industry leaders to save money.  P & G has announced that AutoVLB saves them 7%.  This is 7% fewer trucks, 7% fewer carbon emissions, 7% fewer freight bills...and a lot more on the bottom line.   Kraft calls AutoVLB "Super Truck."  While we can't tell you how much they have saved, we do know they are a very good reference.


AutoVLB provides support:

In the creation of orders.  For example,
=> replacing non-optimizing load builders
=> Checking and fixing orders as they are received
=> Updating shipments as new information comes to hand. For example, a 48 ft trailer is dispatched to pick up the load rather than a 53 footer

And the outputs vary based on when and how AutoVLB is used.  In a planning mode, AutoVLB creates optimized orders for vendor managed inventory and stock transfers.  When customer orders are received, AutoVLB can check them.  Are they full truckloads?  Are they more than a full load and do they need to be split?  For example, some drug chains send in orders for more than 10 trucks and expect the supplier to create loads.  The savings are large when AutoVLB can create 9 loads instead of 10.

In the same light many small orders that will be fulfilled from the same site to the same destination may be optimally consolidated into a truckload.  Wal*Mart is well known for having many buyers place orders against a supplier and have that supplier select the right orders and put them together to minimize transportation costs.

In the world of operations, where the rubber meets the road, AutoVLB creates the best pick path and the optimal loading sequence to guide the warehouse workers to make a damage-free loadon-time--every time.

AutoVLB also provides the opportunity to re-optimize shipments that, for example, have been cut because the production line did not run or, alternately, a super-light weight tractor trailer has been assigned and the maximum load weight can now be an additional 4,000 pounds.  In these circumstances the loads can be filled out to eliminate waste (And save dollars)

AutoVLB turns requirements into optimized truckloads and loading diagram that are both legal and arrive damage free