Lidl Enhances its Transportation Plans with DCbrain
Lidl uses the tactical planning solution to facilitate construction of its transportation plans
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Lidl has become a leading French distributor in a short space of time and currently has more than 1500 stores throughout France. With DCbrain, Lidl is meeting its two main challenges: cost optimization and CO2 emissions reduction.
Faced with increased transportation costs and the need to reduce its CO2 emissions, Lidl chose DCbrain to digitalize and optimize its transportation plans.
Devising and updating transportation plans at Lidl is a highly complex matter: 25 warehouses supplying 1580 outlets, with various product typologies. With few tools available for these operations before DCbrain, the chain was unable to meet its economic and environmental objectives.
Our organization is based on a twice-yearly review of all our transportation schedules. Until now, these schedules were created manually as we had no digital tools.
Xavier Pierre
Transportation and Environment Manager @ Lidl France
Context
Why ?
Lidl wants to minimize its transportation costs and reduce its CO2 emissions. Furthermore, the group wants to design its transportation plans in a digitalized, optimized and dynamic way.
Who For ?
The central teams tasked with logistics planning are concerned. Local dispatch teams also use the solution.
Before DCbrain
Manual updating of transportation plans could only be done infrequently and did not guarantee optimization.
With DCbrain
- Optimized transportation plans, taking into account all requirements
- Faster updating that makes it possible to integrate more unforeseen events and operational changes
- Simple for central and local teams to share and jointly approve scenarios
- CO2 emissions taken into account when constructing transportation plans
Data Used
- Operational requirements: warehouses, outlets, product typology
- Forecast volumes
- Cost matrix
Projected Gains
- Optimized transportation plans
- Reduced CO2 emissions
- Digitalized operations
LIDL has made a commitment to reduce its CO2 emissions and this means that we must further optimize our transportation plans. With DCbrain’s AI, we can meet these challenges.
Xavier Pierre
Transportation and Environment Manager @ Lidl France
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