Digital scheduling and delivery

lanz oensingen ag

The challenge - manual scheduling, high time expenditure and lack of transparency

Lanz oensingen ag was founded over 100 years ago and is still entirely family-owned today. It is the Swiss market leader in the production, distribution and installation of cable routing systems, conductor rail systems and electrical work enclosures. The company employs around 100 people at its headquarters in Oensingen and throughout Switzerland. Every day, a large number of customer orders are delivered using the company's own trucks and, if required, additional external transport service providers.

Until now, deliveries were planned entirely manually. Route planning took up to three hours a day and was heavily dependent on the expertise of individual employees - especially their experience in route planning and Swiss geography. The process was paper-based, error-prone and offered little transparency regarding the current status of deliveries.

In a previous project, iDIP had already implemented the first steps towards digitalizing the delivery process, including a digital delivery bill, mobile driver app and container tracking. Based on the positive experience, lanz oensingen ag decided to take the next step and fully digitalize and automate the scheduling process.

The aim was to map the entire process end-to-end digitally, without media discontinuity and highly efficiently - from order transfer from the ERP and automatic route planning through to transparent delivery and tracking.

The implementation - automated order planning and end-to-end logistics processes

The following main functions were implemented with iDIP:

Order planning: Approved delivery orders are automatically transferred from the ERP system to iDIP. Both the company's own trucks and external transport service providers are defined in the platform. A connected scheduling algorithm calculates the optimum route for each vehicle based on delivery addresses, time windows, unloading times and vehicle capacities, which is then assigned to the responsible driver.
Digital route sheet: The entire delivery is managed digitally. Paper-based route plans and accompanying documents are completely eliminated and replaced by an end-to-end digital process.

Dashboards / KPI analysis and evaluation: Central dashboards provide a live overview of the processing status of all routes and deliveries. In addition, historical data is available for evaluations and analyses.
Central data hub: iDIP acts as a connecting platform between ERP, scheduling and the mobile driver app. Existing functions such as digital delivery bills and container tracking have been seamlessly integrated and the entire delivery process digitized end-to-end.

The result - massive time savings, full transparency and paperless processes

With the introduction of the iDIP platform, lanz oensingen ag was able to fundamentally optimize the scheduling process. The daily time required for scheduling has been reduced from around three hours to just a few minutes. At the same time, the company now has complete transparency regarding the current status of all deliveries - in real time and retrospectively for analysis purposes.

Thanks to end-to-end digitalization, paper has been completely eliminated. This reduces sources of error, simplifies processes for employees and drivers and increases process reliability in the long term.

With the scheduling solution based on iDIP, lanz oensingen ag has not only optimized a single process, but also created a scalable digital foundation to efficiently digitize other logistics and process areas in the future.