Beverages and distribution · In production
An Argentine bottler calculates pallets and route at the same time with Geodot. The space that used to travel empty becomes usable capacity.
Truck load
Before
85%
Average load per truck
Load margin left empty: 15%
With Geodot
99%
Average load per truck
Load margin left empty: 1%
Fleet before Geodot
Each truck drawn stands for 10
The volume called for 150 trucks
100 contracted
50 on a second run
Anonymized story: we name the industry, never the customer.
An Argentine bottler delivers to its customers every day. It moves product in returnable glass and other packaging, and each one stacks differently. Glass goes on the bottom, and returnables come back and take up space.
Routes and loads were built every morning from the team's experience, plus a load margin so nothing was left behind. That gap was the price of not knowing in advance what fit in each truck.
It had 100 trucks under contract for a volume that called for 150, and 50 went out on a second run.
Two modules sharing the same calculation, connected to the ERP the company already had.
First the data, then the rules of the trade, then daily operations.
01
Orders and the material master from the existing ERP: weight, volume and how each product stacks. The ERP remains the system of record.
02
Every time an order moves to another truck, palletizing is recalculated. The planner sees what fits before confirming.
03
The load margin and returnables become system rules. The glass rule spreads glass customers across trucks to free up space without breaking margins.
04
The plan leaves with the load solved. The knowledge of whoever built loads by heart is kept in the system.
85% → 99%
Truck load, as a share of total capacity
Measured in operation
−8%
Transport cost
Measured in operation
+10%
Truck capacity freed by the returnable-glass rule
Measured in operation
4 to 5
Fewer trucks every day
Measured in operation
The same logic applies to operations with returnables, mixed packaging or load constraints. The first step is measuring how much leaves empty today, with your orders.
In the demo we calculate, with your orders, how much capacity travels unused today.
