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FMCG & retail logistics

Fewer vehicles on the road, and the windows still met.

Fast-moving consumer goods, store replenishment, wholesale supply, intragroup distribution and multi-sector retail chains – where the stop is a loading bay, the drop is heavy, and the cost sits in the vehicle.

The economics

The expensive mistake is a vehicle, not a parcel.

In B2C a bad decision costs a second attempt. Here it costs a truck for a day.

Replenishment rounds are usually planned by somebody experienced, on a pattern that was right when it was designed. Volume moves, stores open, a bay changes its receiving hours – and the pattern is defended rather than rebuilt, because rebuilding it is real work.

So the fleet is sized for the worst week and runs at that size every week. The waste is invisible because it never appears as a failure.

Planned against the actual drops, with dimensions, reloads, multi-depot and receiving windows solved together, the same work fits in fewer vehicles – and the windows are still met, because they were a constraint rather than a hope.

The second leak is in the building: billable weight that never crossed a gate, and line-haul lanes planned on a spreadsheet.

−12%vehicles on the road – store-replenishment case
−26%CO₂ emissions – store-replenishment case
97%time windows met – store-replenishment case

A pattern that was right when somebody drew it is a cost you renew every week without noticing.

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The bay

The cost here is waiting, not driving.

Two of the models, read against a replenishment round rather than a courier one – schematics, not solved rounds. Both of them buy minutes at the ramp by spending a little more on the road, which is the trade nobody makes by hand, because nobody can see it.

AI · routingschematic
0811141720ticked in a formno answerno answerdoor opened12:00 – 14:00

Preferable time windows

When this door actually opens, inferred from what happened at it before – not from what the recipient once ticked in a form. The window the engine plans against is the one with the highest chance of a first-attempt success.

Reads the attempt history at the address. Changes which window the stop is planned into.

AI · routingschematic
one flat average4F, no liftgatedthe stops on one round

Service time prediction

How long this stop will actually take: the building, the floor, the entrance, the parcel count, the hour. A round built on one flat average is wrong at every stop and right on average.

Reads the recorded dwell time at that address. Changes how many stops fit in the day.

The queue at the ramp is a routing decisionA bay has a profile by arrival hour – a peak in the morning, easing after lunch. Arriving into the peak is time spent standing still, so service time prediction moves the stop, checked against the receiving window. A few more minutes of driving buys back a lot more minutes of waiting.
The window on file and the window the bay keepsA store’s file says receiving opens at 06:30. Its arrivals say the door does not open until 07:00. Preferable windows plan against the second one, so the vehicle goes straight in instead of idling outside a closed bay.

Send us one replenishment week.

We will run it against your declared receiving windows and against what the bays actually did, and show you the difference in vehicles.

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Where the work happens

The building, the road, and the bay.

The building

Hub app, containers and consolidation, seals and custody, transport sessions, line-haul and closings – and sorter, gate and robot integrations over the same API.

The road

Multi-depot and reloads, truck dimensions, ADR and cold chain solved together with the sequence, not applied as filters afterwards.

The cost

Cost centres, invoicing and lane cost modelling reading the same record the driver closed – so cost per drop is built from scans, not allocated.

Reporting

Cost per drop, built from the scans.

A transport session is an object you can plan, load, close and settle. That is what turns lane cost from an allocation into a measurement – and what makes a 10-15% line-haul saving from lane and load optimisation something you can test rather than take on faith.

Lastmily estimate. Baseline it on your own lanes first.

Network reporting: lanes, loads and cost per drop
Network reporting: lanes, loads and cost per drop
Receiving windowsA bay that receives in a narrow morning window is a hard constraint, not a preference – and it is solved with the sequence.
Reloads & multi-depotA vehicle that returns to load again is a different problem from one that does not. The engine plans it as one round.
Dimensions, not just weightPallets and carts fail on volume long before they fail on kilos.
Custody between nodesSeals and containers, so a dispute about what arrived is a query rather than an investigation.

Lastmily · FMCG & retail logistics

What it does to the numbers

With the label each figure was measured under.

10-15%

of line-haul transportation cost, from lane and load optimisation

Lastmily estimate

up to 80%

of weight-revenue leakage recovered

Lastmily estimate · up to 20% of billable weight bypasses the sorter

6-10%

of fleet capacity – adherence, prediction, first attempt

modelled · the three effects overlap; do not add them up

97%

time windows met

store-replenishment case

None of these is a promise. Each one is a number we can baseline on your data before you commit to anything.

Millions

monthly shipments

platform-measured, across the customer base

≈0%

logo churn

platform-measured, to date

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Start with the weight gap.

Declared against measured, one month, one lane. It is the fastest number to baseline and the hardest to argue with.

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The close

Pick the number we should be measured on.

Then let us measure it before you commit to anything.

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