Do you know the cost of ‘extra mixer truck’ to your company?
Planning in ready mixed dispatch is compared to financial management! Planning, in a sense, is the budgeting of the work. Sending concrete with mixers means writing checks and subsequently converted into cash.
No commercial company want to take risks in this regard.
And the best man should be used in dispatch position like in the financial management.
Unfortunately, this is not the case in concrete shipment and the need to employ an experienced and skilled man for problem-free shipment is often overlooked or ignored.
The aim of the planning is to provide maximum service with minimum cost. This can be accomplished by planning when and where to send the mixers firstly.
The basic steps of dispatch planning are:
-Determination of the required number of mixers for the cycle
-Determining the filling time of the first mixer.
-Determining the loading time of the remaining mixers, etc.
The dispatcher should make some maths to determine the required mixer for a cycle. The formula for the calculation of this is very simple ‘cycle time / unloading time at site’.
However, it is known by everyone that the dispatchers sometimes keep some vehicles for their beloved customers. Some managers even take it with appreciation. So, why are all these calculations and plannings being made? And why there are some mixer trucks waiting for unclear request.
Does the dispatcher know the cost of an additional mixer to the company? We should ask the same question also the manager who appreciates the shipper who keep mixers his customer. How much does an extra mixer cost the company?
The calculations show that extra truck waiting idle every day a week and all year along cost to company around 100.000 Euro.
If the company has multiple plants, it is clear that, there may be more trucks waiting idle which beyond the number required to haul orders for a given day.
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