A solution tailored to your needs

SmartRouting, provided as a cloud managed service (MSaaS) is a perfect fit for transportation companies managing the utilization and routing of assets.

The Ab Ovo SmartRouting solution delivers customer value quickly with:

• Intuitive UI/UX – optimized visualization and user-friendly click paths
• Industry standards configured
• Tailored to your specific requirements
• Managed by Ab Ovo
• Usage based pricing model
• Swiftly guided deployment + training. Go-live in weeks rather than months
• Always-on web-based support and dedicated support personnel

Key benefits – business value

SmartRouting covers the whole range of planning horizons, from strategic planning to disruption management on the day of operations. By providing this solution as a cloud managed service, it is perfect fit for asset-based companies or other transport companies managing the utilization and routing of the assets. The key benefits of this dynamic planning and optimization solution are:

• Decreased transport costs

SmartRouting creates better routes, thereby decreasing mileage and resource costs. It is equipped to schedule own and external resources alike. Our experience in the field shows that mileage is reduced up to 10-15%., leading to a 3-5% reduction in transportation costs.

• Improved delivery performance

SmartRouting produces feasible plans that maximize customer order fulfilment. It ensures service-level agreements are met and gives the user notifications when deviations occur. By experience, customer satisfaction improves measurably due to improved ETA accuracy.

• Improved transparency & control

SmartRouting improves company-wide transparency in operations, reporting and analytics significantly, leading to improved efficiency across the organization.. While real-time delays can on the one hand be visualized to the planners to inform customers, the data can also be used to improve the planning parameters, which also affects the strategic planning process. All relevant performance data is displayed on dashboards, which are updated in real-time as the day or week progresses. Data analytics can further enrich the solution by adding predictions or defining previously unnoticed business patterns.

SmartRouting seamlessly integrates into your existing IT landscape

Companies like Amazon, Apple, P&G, McDonald’s, and Unilever have seen tremendous market share growth and financial gains through their incredible supply chains. The global COVID-19 pandemic further magnified their success.

The great news is the software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud Transport Management Systems (TMS) have given all road logistics companies, no matter their size, access to a top-tier TMS for their business. 

As we have embraced this opportunity we have developed SmartRouting – our managed SaaS (MSaaS) solution that integrates with any cloud TMS provider – to optimize your daily route planning.

SmartRouting is typically integrated with a TMS system through standard interfacing, both for receiving the orders and execution details, as well as for providing drivers and customer service with the route plan. These interfaces with other systems allow SmartRouting to be seamlessly integrated into your existing system landscape and minimizes integration and maintenance costs.

A Transport Management System (TMS) is typically designed to improve and automate your staff’s administrative processes, with labor cost reductions of 20-30%, whereas the focus of SmartRouting is to reduce operational resource costs by improving the execution plan for trucks and drivers.

SmartRouting can decrease resource usage costs by about 3-5% on top of your TMS-planning functionality. Since typically the costs for office staff are usually at most 10% of the total costs, this leaves 90% of costs for the execution of planning. A relatively small improvement (3-5%) of these execution costs implies that the business value of SmartRouting combined with a TMS system is much higher than for a TMS system only.

Dynamic Planning & Optimization Solution

The digitalization of the transport and logistics industry creates large opportunities to organizations, like higher efficiency, new services and improved real-time visibility. On the other hand, threats, such as new entrants to the market and the ever increasing velocity of change, impact day-to-day operations as well as strategic decisions. The amount of data grows exponentially, which can be both a threat and an opportunity to any business.

A dynamic transport planning and optimization solution, which enables decisions with ease, accuracy and speed is a great way to continue growth and to maintain the competitive edge over others.

SmartRouting enables companies to deliver flawless service and more on-time deliveries with less costs, while providing full transparency to the planner on each shipment’s and resource’s location at any time.

Applying predictive analytics with SmartInsights

SmartInsights transforms supply chain data into actionable insights to optimize transport planning.

By combining data sources from operational processes and applying predictive analytics, SmartInsights supports your teams in making the most efficient decisions. Decisions that have an impact on cost savings, resource utilization, environment, and employee satisfaction.

SmartInsights is an add-on to SmartRouting – our Managed SaaS solution to help transportation companies dig a little deeper to optimize their daily route planning puzzle.

Customer satisfaction

Ab Ovo is focused on delivering customer value.  Our in depth experience and expertise ensure that our customers are delighted.  And support both during implementation and beyond is provided by our team of experts who know your business.  We continue to keep you informed about solution software roadmaps, releases and the value this brings to you and your company. If you require additional training or adaption of the solution, we are ready with our team of industry experts to assist you.