Dock Scheduling and the Grocery Industry - Opportunities for your Supply Chain

Balancing the Workload
The need to balance the broad variety of load types, load modes and products.

The Challenge
The high turnover and freshness of the produce emphasizes the need for grocers to receive the right loads at the right time, all the while maintaining a balanced workload on their docks.

The challenge is rendered even more complex by the wide variety of products (produce, grocery, pharmacy, etc.), load types (palletized, slip sheets, double stack, etc.) and load category (prepaid, collect, backhauls).

A basic calendar or generic scheduling system doesn’t provide enough parameters to set rules which will respect the business’ priorities.

The Solution
A dock scheduling system should provide a planning and execution tool which ensures the right product will arrive on time while balancing the dock workload.

This is achieved by using sophisticated constraints, unload duration computation rules and PO information (EDD, SKU, Qty) in order to enforce the most efficient scheduling of each appointment request.