Industrial use case: intelligent container load planning
BASF
Chemical Industry Leader
Multinational Company
Background
BASF SE is a multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. Its headquarters is located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Dorabot services the needs of BASF with regard to the company’s supply chain optimization solutions. To date, efforts are focused on bolstering BASF’s shipping operations, particularly those origination in the Asia Pacific region.
Challenges
BASF produces a great variety of chemical products, often shipped together, according to strict rules for container loading and segmentation.
The operation of the container booking team is separated from that of the container loading team, resulting in high communication costs
The loading rate needs to be improved. Delays accrue added costs and lost earnings.
Solution
· Dorabot’s CLP (Container Load Planning) software provides an intelligent management system to optimize the process of container booking and loading.
· Dorabot’s AI software delivers container load planning that maximizes use of space, providing significant annual cost savings.
· Adopt supply chain optimization solutions to optimize business processes, reducing the number of steps required, from 5 to 2.
· Allow for an unlimited number of constraints, with incredibly fast processing speed.
Customer Benefits
Streamline the container booking and loading process to improve operational efficiency
Visualization tools save time and reduce operating costs
99.99% sorting accuracy
Improved supply chain transparency and further digitization of the process