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In this blog I want to cover two frequent questions:I want to have only Freight Orders with more than x% utilization.I want to distribute the freight between two Freight Orders in a specific way.I want to discuss this scope from different views. We ...

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In this blog we want to have a look into the proposal and what’s it makes different from the „usual“ optimizer. Let’s start why we use the optimizer:The goal of the optimizer is to find the best plan in term of costs in a given run-time, to transport...

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The VSR optimizer is mainly driven by Freight Units. As long as there are not planned Freight Units it is searching for capacity to transport these Freight Units. As result the optimizer is creating Freight Orders or Bookings to describe how and wh...

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During the last years SUV’s became very popular in Europe. SUV stands for “Sport Utility Vehicle”. It is a kind of cars. Usually they are large, have a strong motor and look like they could drive off-road. You could get the impression this kind of ...

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As you may know we use Meta-Heuristic for our VSR-optimization. We call it evolutionary local search. One important part in such an approach are the local steps to check every possibility in a neighborhood and some random steps to get new aspects i...

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Of course you can try to do any kind of disaggregation. Inside the optimizer we do it a little bit simpler: If we need a coverage of 1.5 weeks wee the into account all demands of the first week and 50% of all demands of the second week. We avoid the ...

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Please check if your selection profiles are ok. Check if the Deamdns and the resources are selected, as intended. Most probably the resource/MTr is missing and then as follow-up effect also the lane is not considered.

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You right! Sorry for the mistake. It is available with 9.4

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Hello!In incremental planning the optimization engine is not searching FOR's for trailer units. If both, the trailer unit and the FOR are incremental, the engine can incrementally add new FU's to both. But this means FO1 and FO& will survive with inc...

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Currently there is no explicite balancing feature inside the optimzier. The usual requirment is to reduce the number of required resources, what is supported via cost settings.Perhaps you get "better" results, if you reduce the horizon. Or you may de...

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