Ep 306: Postal and parcel resource management with Kardinal

May 23, 2023

Cédric Hervet, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Kardinal, discusses a technology-assisted approach to delivery resource management.

• How postal and parcel delivery companies manage resources
• Deciding who does what and where, and moving beyond planning via spreadsheets
• Productivity lost thanks to suboptimal route organisation
• Maximising driver productivity
• Advantages of drivers being familiar with their delivery area
• Dealing with increasingly volatile parcel volumes in a stable parcel delivery structure
• Avoiding the problem of subcontractors going out of business
• Keeping good contractors
• Using data and new methodology to create resilient, optimised delivery networks
• Putting facts and data at the centre of discussions between delivery companies and subcontractors
• Getting the balance right with delivery subcontractors and employees, including managing shift lengths and delivery route distances
• Getting to the key number of what the last mile delivery cost is
• DPD France case study
• Advanced territory analytics and optimisation
• Productivity improvements of up to 25%
• Making better decisions based on the algorithm