Linehaul network plan optimization
Optimal network plans, every time
Create better network plans, faster with automated linehaul network planning software designed to maximize efficiency and profitability of your linehaul operation.
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HaulPlan helps carriers plan smarter, react faster, and increase profits
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Decreased planning time
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Reduction in empties
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Reduction in linehaul miles
Reduce linehaul costs
Optimized load plans and schedules reduce linehaul and handling costs to increase profit.
Improve service quality
Optimization reduces service delays, improves on-time performance, and increases customer satisfaction.
Responsive planning
Automated linehaul planning reduces plan creation time from days to hours, supporting quicker, more frequent changes to plans.
Powerful planning options
Create plans considering endless day-of-week and week-of-month scenarios to support the variability of high-volume LTL operations.
What-if scenario
analysis
Understand the impact of complicated operational changes, such as gaining or losing a customer, to shifting zip codes or switching facilities.
Advanced strategic planning
Design networks from scratch using advanced simulation and modeling technology, and make strategic decisions based on science over institutional knowledge.
Comprehensive linehaul planning
Our multiple optimzation modes enable an LTL carrier to engage in a constant process of improving its linehaul plan and continuously adapting to changing shipment volumes and service commitments.
Upgrade/downgrade mode
Upgrade some terminals to hubs or downgrade some terminals to end-of-lines. You can also change processing capacities and generate a new load plan to study the effectiveness of your changes.
Incremental optimization
Generate the best changes to improve cost and service. You can specify the number and types of changes you would like to see, and HaulPlan will generate these recommendations.
Full optimization
Do a clean-sheet optimization of the entire linehaul plan. HaulPlan makes changes as needed to reduce linehaul costs and improve service quality. The scope of optimization can be controlled to make plan changes only in specific regions of the network.
User-driven optimization
Do a clean-sheet optimization of the entire linehaul plan. HaulPlan makes changes as needed to reduce linehaul costs and improve service quality. The scope of optimization can be controlled to make plan changes only in specific regions of the network.
"HaulPlan has become an integral part of our strategic planning tools and continues to support our efforts to gain efficiency in multiple facets of our network design."
Scott Ware, Chief Network Officer
"HaulPLAN has been used to empower our planners to easily see the network impact of our decisions, design temporary weather or covid impacted alternatives, and seamlessly push our changes into our execution system, saving us time and money."
Jeff Owen, Director of Linehaul
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Hub skipping
Automatically identify where to build directs to skip handling, reducing cost and risk across the network.
Network design planning
Redesign and optimize break locations and service product offerings to save money and increase competitiveness.
Disruption planning
Adapt linehaul plans for weather and terminal disruptions to minimize cost and mitigate service impact when adversity strikes.
Third-party plan optimization
Create holistic plans that include optimization of third-party rail and purchase plans.
Sophisticated modeling
Enjoy advanced LTL planning and create a “digital twin” of any network.
Day-of-week modeling
Analyze differences in demand by day of week or month to make smarter decisions based on the real-world variability of your network.
LTL-tailored algorithms
Advanced algorithms built specifically for the LTL industry help carriers not just find a solution, but find the best solution.
Time-space simulation
Proprietary time-space LTL network simulations bring detailed insights and enhanced decision-making capabilities planners.
Unparalleled insights
See your network from every angle to understand the true impact of future decisions.
Advanced analytics
See the impact of different scenarios, including network expansions, plan adjustments, and zip-to-terminal mapping changes.
Understand the latest possible time a shipment must leave any facility considering all operating windows and travel times.
Linehaul cost
Service violation
Loaded miles
Empty miles
Handling cost
Load average
Lane balance
Purchase and rail cost
Create optimized schedules with advanced models
Network cost simulation
Calculate the cost of deviations in your network, such as changes in demand, load plans, and weather.
Zip-to-terminal mapping
Visualize the impact on load average and cost when shifting zip codes between terminals.
