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Beverages & Bottlers

Geodot calculates the route and the pallet build in the same step. Before a trip is closed, it knows what fits in each truck, how much space the returnables need and where the glass goes.

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Inside a bottler's distribution center, pallets of returnable glass bottle crates and a forklift moving toward the docks.

What shapes a bottler's truck load

  • Every truck holds space for the returnable containers coming back, and that space is estimated by eye.
  • Glass, PET, cans and Tetra Pak follow different stacking rules. Glass goes on the bottom.
  • Since nobody knows whether the pallet build will fit, trucks leave with a load margin and empty space.
  • BASIS has no standard connectors; the Release 53 integration is in production.
  • Some SKUs move on specialized equipment rather than as full layers.
Routing and palletizingOne calculation
Returnable-glass customersReassigned across trucks
BASIS connectionRelease 53, in production
StackingBy container type
A bottler's dock yard at dawn, with returnable crate pallets and a forklift crossing.

Modules for bottlers

Core modules

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Smart Palletizing

Pallet plans calculated while the route is built, with your product's stacking rules

Route + load

calculated together, before the trip is closed

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iRouter

Routes built around each customer's window, capacity and priority

Per customer

routing by window, priority and capacity

Complementary modules

A bottler in Argentina, in production

  • 85% → 99%

    average truck load, with transport cost down 8%. Routing and palletizing are calculated in the same step.

    Bottler · Argentina

  • +10%

    capacity from the returnable-glass rule, which moves glass customers between trucks without rebuilding the rest of the trip.

    Bottler · Argentina

  • 4 to 5

    fewer trucks per day. The operation had 100 trucks under contract for a volume that called for 150, and 50 were running second trips.

    Bottler · Argentina

Next steps

One day of your orders, run through Geodot

Let's review one day of your orders and work out how much capacity your fleet has left.

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