Adaptive Transportation Network Optimisation

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Agents Enable Adaptive Execution

Classical planning systems are based on historical data from which results are aggregated into general tendencies such as averages, future developments are estimated and a plan of action is devised. The higher the volatility of daily demand, the harder it is for planning systems to provide accurate supply.

Real-Time Adjustment

Capgemini’s Adaptive Transportation Network solution (ATN) is a transport optimisation solution within a greater set of adaptive logistics solutions. Based on distributed real time technology, ATN’s software agents represent optimisable business objects, e.g. trucks, warehouses, orders, and service levels. After gathering information about their environment, these agents make goal-oriented decisions and perform delegated optimisation and execution actions.

ATN can flexibly adjust daily transportation capacity and capability to actual demand. Its local decision-making capability skirts the limitations of centralised planning systems by changing the complexity of top-down optimisation to bottom-up. This parallel processing can significantly impact operational costs as well as strengthen customer service levels, and improve the timeliness of results to near real-time.

The Continuous Optimiser

In a transportation and logistics network, optimised transport capacity utilisation is one of the most critical levels for profitability. Capgemini’s ATN solution helps global and regional companies improve their overall productivity by using Agent Technology to balance supply and demand issues, increase communication across the network, and reduce response times.

Capgemini partners with leading providers of multi-agent based software platforms to build intelligent transportation solutions such as ATN. Capgemini provides the product strategy, new algorithms and proven delivery methodologies from a process, technology and organisational perspective to jointly develop the agent products and supply chain management solutions.

Implementing an adaptive transportation network provides:

• Real-Time Visibility and Event-Based Execution—automating the earliest possible treatment of daily plan deviation for greater success.
• Enhanced collaborations – establishing flexible connections between partners and seamless integration of the network.
• Event-level optimisation -- achieving multiple objectives to help turn unplanned events into profit and disclose hidden opportunities.