Unlike day-to-day dispatch, which assigns existing orders to available vehicles, transport planning optimization works at the level of the planning parameters themselves: vehicle type, routing, loading sequence, scheduling, and capacity utilization are tuned jointly to cut empty runs, reduce transit times, and lower costs while improving delivery reliability and fill rates.
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