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Archive for October, 2008

Using Transport Instead of BTL for Load Building

In a recent project, our team was tasked to design and implement a solution for a client that would drive Load Building functionality with Recommended Shipments from Fulfillment. Through a detailed analysis, we ended up selecting Transport as the engine for Load Building these RecShips from Fulfillment. The end solution was well received, and offered the client extremely flexible and robust configurability to distribution planning while utilizing constraint-based optimization to help generate a more realistic plan.