RAIL FREIGHT

Maximize Profit with Demand-Based Planning

DELMIA provides Rail Freight undertakings with the must-have capabilities to deal with the today’s industry challenges and gain value via optimized planning. Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, our solution is designed to maximize agility and flexibility across all planning horizons from strategic planning up to day-of-operations scheduling.

Keeping Your Costs, Resource Usage and Punctuality on Track

DELMIA helps you rein in costs by maximizing train utilization and operational flexibility. This ultimately allows you to improve your ability to win and retain contracts. The solution supports you in balancing conflicting demands. Clients expect your services to be reliable, affordable and traceable. Shareholders expect you to maximize shareholder return. Employees expect you to accommodate their personal needs and preferences. And safety regulators expect you to comply with labor regulations. Handle all these requirements with ease leveraging our planning and optimization solution. It provides capabilities for integrated rail freight planning, supply chain management, optimization of rolling stock utilization and yard management. In addition, it equips you with the support needed to manage dynamic rail freight pricing and optimize transportation costs so you can maximize revenue. It also enables you to overcome some of the biggest challenges facing operators today such as last-minute orders, seasonal fluctuations and day-of-operations disruptions. With real-time visibility, you will gain control over and synchronization across your rail freight supply chain. This will allow you to continuously plan for improvement to achieve the goal of operational excellence.

 

Key features and benefits include:

Create Demand Plans Based on Forecasts

DELMIA provides the support of an extensive library of forecasting algorithms. It enables visibility into your current contracts and order history. Balance short-term rail freight orders with long-term rail track capacity. Create better long-term demand plans. Get operational plans that can be managed with minimal deviations and optimized utilization.

Compare and Select the Best Scenarios

No matter your next move, DELMIA provides support in comparing and selecting optimal scenarios for operations. Whether it’s responding to a 15% demand increase, the operational feasibility of another train movement or the financial viability of that customer consignment. You can predict the consequences of the decisions you make on these fronts and measure their impact on your operations—all in a matter of minutes.

Enhance Schedule Flexibility and Accuracy

Plan last-minute orders with minimal impact to your operational plans. DELMIA tracks information from infrastructure managers, order systems as well as other key sources. It then automatically propagates any changes to keep all your schedules up to date and free of conflicts.

Maximize Revenues with Dynamic Pricing

DELMIA analyzes your company’s historical pricing data and accounts. Tackle various aspects, from current market fluctuations to train utilization, customer demand to price sensitivity and other critical factors. The solution arms your sales representatives and pricing consultants with the most profitable quotes, every time.

Increase Utilization and Reduce Empty Kilometers

DELMIA lets you integrate the planning of key functions. It enables you to optimize the capacity of all your assets and prevent underutilization. End-to-end operational visibility enables you to improve cost control and ROI on your assets.