The benefits of the transportation deployment scheduler LevelLoad are numerous.

Kimberly-Clark is a global leader in child care and personal care goods, with such famous brands as Kleenex, Huggies, Kotex, and Cottonelle, Scott, among others. Demand volatility impacted ten major North American distribution centers that ship between 900-1,100 truck loads shipments each day. To overcome the volatility were used a few systems but it is still were not reliable solution.

Kimberly-Clark recognized the issue of volatility, partnered with our sister company, ProvisionAI, and deployed LevelLoad. The transportation deployment scheduler is a tool to automate the distribution planning and deployment process, improve scheduling, and smooth the volatility.

LevelLoad uses our optimizing load builder AutoO₂ to determine what should ship on each vehicle.

Load builder AutoO₂ loads all ships ultimately, with the highest-priority, most-needed product – no wasted capacity in either cube or weight.  Also, it makes each load safe and legal.

We are very proud of helping Kimberly-Clark generate the significant advantages outlined in an article in Consumer Goods Technology. So let's see what Kimberly-Clark VP Global Logistics talks benefits of LevelLoad.

You can see the whole piece here or just read the summary.

Summary

Eliminating deployment volatility by using Transportation Deployment Scheduler LevelLoad,  generates a lot of savings and benefits.

LevelLoad is a digital twin of the network that:

• • Levels deployment over the next 30+ days  to minimize the use of shipping and receiving site  overtime and non-preferred carriers
  • Constrains deployment to match network capability — cost-effectively
  • Ensures customer service levels are met
  • Supports early tendering to lock in preferred carriers while waiting until just before shipment to determine the highest-priority items to put on each load
  • Creates optimized full truck shipments that use 98% of truck capacity and arrive damage-free

In short, LevelLoad optimizes deployment to attain high customer service and save money.