Beverages and distribution · In production
A leading bottler stopped shipping air. Geodot calculates the pallet and the route at the same time, so the truck leaves full and the safety gap stops eating capacity.
Truck load
Safety gap left empty: 15%
Anonymized story: we name the industry, never the customer.
Argentina's largest bottler delivers to its customers every day. It moves product in returnable glass and other packaging, and each one stacks differently: glass goes on the bottom, returnables come back and take up space.
Routes and loads were built every morning from the team's experience, plus a safety gap so nothing was left behind. That gap was the price of not knowing in advance what fit in each truck.
It had 100 trucks under contract for a volume that called for 150: 50 went out on a second run and trucks left at 85%.
Two modules sharing the same calculation, connected to the ERP the company already had.
Order matters: data first, then the rules of the trade, then daily operations.
01
Orders and the material master from the existing ERP: weight, volume and how each product stacks. The ERP remains the system of record.
02
Every time an order moves to another truck, palletizing is recalculated. The planner sees what fits before confirming.
03
The safety gap and returnables become system rules. The glass rule spreads glass customers across trucks to free up space without breaking margins.
04
The plan leaves with the load solved. The knowledge of whoever built loads by heart stays in the system instead of leaving with the person.
85% → 99%
Truck load, as a share of total capacity
Measured in operation
−8%
Transport cost
Measured in operation
+10%
Truck capacity freed by the returnable-glass rule
Measured in operation
4 to 5
Fewer trucks on the road every day
Measured in operation
The same logic applies to any operation with returnables, mixed packaging or load constraints. The first step is measuring how much leaves empty today, with your real orders.
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