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Dynamic scheduling – delivery slots on demand?

The guy who can give the narrowest time window for deliveries is the one who will clean up.” So said Paul Palmer of routing and scheduling specialist DPS International this June during the launch of a new Web-enabled client-server version of his firm’s LogiX system.

Also in June, during the Institute of Logistics and Transport’s annual conference, Bernard Auton of Unipart Technology Logistics commented: “Lack of capability to reschedule journeys dynamically is one of the biggest problems for home deliveries.”

Take these two observations together and you begin to see why dynamic rescheduling could become a real growth area in the coming months. It’s a familiar concept, but has not so far been implemented widely. Now interest appears to be hotting up.

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