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STREAMLINER MODULES

Slot Booking

Slot booking and yard management is vital in supply chain management as it ensures efficient resource allocation, reduces congestion, and enhances predictability. It fosters collaboration, improves customer satisfaction, and generates data-driven insights for optimisation. And of course, slot booking leads to cost savings and streamlined operations across the supply chain. Overall, slot booking is an essential tool for modern supply chain management, promoting efficiency, collaboration, and visibility throughout the supply chain network

Slot booking and yard management plays a crucial role in supply chain management for several reasons:

  • By designating time slots for arrivals and departures based on the availability of resources, it minimises congestion, promoting smoother workflows.

  • Predictable schedules aid planning for suppliers and receivers, while real-time tracking enhances visibility and informed decision-making.

  • Workforce efficiency improves through accurate staffing based on schedules.

  • Timely slot bookings ensure on-time product arrivals, vital for industries relying on timely deliveries.

  • Data-driven insights highlight bottlenecks and cost-saving opportunities and improve SLA monitoring.

Altogether, slot booking reduces costs, enhances customer satisfaction, and drives operational improvements.​

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STREAMLINER SLOT BOOKING - KEY FEATURES 

VERSATILE CONFIGURATION

Streamliner is designed to seamlessly adjust to your configuration and organizational structure, avoiding costly setups for incorporating seasonal locations or more permanent network changes.

streamliner set-up screens

Warehouse network mapping

You have the freedom to define your own digital twin, structuring your organisation into countries, sites, and warehouses as per your requirements.

Zone segmentation

Streamliner splits your warehouses into different zones with dedicated assigned gates or with shared gates, each designated for specific types of goods or activities.

Available resources

You have the capability to manage dynamically the loading and unloading capacity of your warehouses across the week and even within one day, by type of goods and/or operation.

STREAMLINER SLOT BOOKING - KEY FEATURES 

SELF SERVICE

The Streamliner platform empowers your supply chain stakeholders, i.e. suppliers, customers or carriers, to autonomously schedule their preferred time slots for delivering goods to your warehouse.

Autonomous scheduling

Users can select themselves their preferred delivery time slots. Time slots can be reserved for specific carriers or suppliers, applying appropriate recurring patterns.

Based on order information

Streamliner uses information sourced directly from the originating orders, enabling intelligent and automated slot length definition based on the shipment's content.

Based on availability

Streamliner optimises the scheduling process by allowing users only to choose available time slots that align with your resource availability.

Streamliner slot booking screen

STREAMLINER SLOT BOOKING - KEY FEATURES 

EFFORTLESS OPTIMISATION

The Streamliner platform empowers stakeholders, including carriers, to autonomously schedule their preferred time slots for delivering goods to your warehouse.

Streamliner dashboards

Data collection

Streamliner diligently collects and stores all slot booking data. This encompasses details of time slots, actual arrival, turn around time,  resources allocated, and any encountered issues.

Interactive dashboards

Data is translated into user-friendly dashboards, offering a visual representation of resource allocations and usage patterns and providing valuable insights at a glance.

Effortless configuration updates

You can make informed decisions, optimise resource allocations, and continuously enhance your warehouse reception operations. Based on data, not on emotions.

SLOT BOOKING BENEFITS AND COST SAVINGS

WHITE PAPER

Efficient slot booking reduces costs by optimising resource usage during warehouse reception and dispatch. This boosts operational efficiency, replaces manual methods, and shifts performance assessment towards data-driven insights. Learn more about Streamliner's slot booking benefits and cost savings in our white paper.

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