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PARIS was primarily designed for identifying and automatically assembling a transport plan with increased import-export load matches by considering thousands more tip-and-reload permutations than possible by any team of planners. The idea is that after an import is tipped, the box together with its truck should be re-used for an export move rather than being round tripped back to the port or depot. Triangulated matches are sometimes called a matchback, a backload or a tip and reload. Such matches give operational savings owing to reduced lifts of empty units and the accompanying reduction in empty distance for trucks, drivers and containers and the associated fuel savings. Today, trucks carrying empty containers can often be found passing each other on UK roads. However, with PARIS daily matching percentages can be increased from single figures to thirty plus percent and naturally the resulting operational savings are considerable.
Developed since the early nineties, PARIS is now the market-leading product that considers and optimises all modes of transport; truck, rail, feeder and barge and their combinations. Equally, PARIS will consider cross port matching (import from a port matching with an export going to a different port), the only boundaries to the planning optimisation being those stated by the organisation.
This is done by loading into PARIS various master table data, rail and barge timetables, tariffs, availability for spot/contract (block trains), hauliers and their agreed tariffs, ports, customer locations, vessel schedules (used for ETA/ETD of the box on quay) and business rules about how PARIS should match and plan. A road distance and transit time matrix can be provided if not already available.
When PARIS is considering the different ways to plan jobs, it also considers the empty equipment situation and the location of strategic depots. PARIS tracks stock levels and uses target levels to produce trips with the most appropriate and cost-effective equipment restitution (pickup/drop off) already selected.
The main purpose of PARIS is to automatically assemble a least cost transport plan that is executable and presented in easy to use planning screens. This frees up time for planners to manage any exceptions. The majority of jobs can usually be automatically allocated by PARIS based on pre-agreed arrangements, getting jobs to hauliers much earlier than in manual environments allowing them to better manage their resources. This leaves a smaller part of the plan still to be allocated by the planner. Using all the optimisation features of PARIS, recent deployments within European areas have identified and provided savings of up to 7.5% of the inland transport budget of major shipping lines, for example, a £1.5m on a £20m spend with an empty running reduction in excess of one million miles.
No other planning software can challenge the ability of the innovative technology in PARIS to automate the planning process in real-time while taking into account last minute changes to jobs and automatically matching tip-and-reloads. PARIS works non-stop to provide significant financial savings whilst reducing carbon footprint and contributing to an organisation’s environmental sustainability.
For more information about PARIS, please contact Andy Barker, General Manager PARIS, Tel: +44 (0)1223 531821 or email: andy.barker@paris-tms.com
CILT 2010 Award For Excellence Winner in Information Management
IFW 2010 Technological Innovation Award Runner-up
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