Hail, Caesar: How ECG’s template is giving power to distribution planning
By Victoria Johns2019-09-30T13:25:00
Inadequate forecasting is one of the biggest causes of inefficiency in finished vehicle logistics, but ECG’s Project Caesar is setting new standards for distribution planning.
When ECG published its Efficiency Survey in 2013, the greatest cause of inefficiency in the vehicle logistics sector was found to be unbalanced flows and unequal mileage caused by inaccurate forecasting.
“Some OEM forecasts are at times not satisfactory and lacking completeness, causing a misalignment between capacity and demand. This is turn creates inefficient fleet utilisation, capacity shortfalls and associated hidden costs for OEMs and LSPs alike,” explains ECG executive director, Mike Sturgeon.