The 4th Fresh Logistics Asia, known as the largest exhibition of fresh logistics industry in Asia, has been successfully held from May 17th to 19th, 2017 in Shanghai New International Expo Center.
As an annual gathering of the logistics industry, this exhibition set a new high record both in size and volume of visitors: over 250 exhibitors from many countries such as China, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States. The focus of the exhibition was to exhibit intelligent, green, safe and innovative solutions in fresh food logistics within the 17,000 m2 exhibition area which attracted 16,827 professional visitors.
With the improvements of Chinese people’s living standards and upgrades of their consumption patterns, fresh food has gradually taken up a larger portion of their tables than ever. To ensure that fresh food materials are delivered from their place of origin to consumers in “as-is” freshness, cold-chain logistics has become the key to maintaining the freshness throughout the long journey.
Fresh Logistics Asia aims to safeguard the freshness of products throughout the logistics from its place of origin to consumers, to realize industry-wide seamless relay from company to company, and to provide fresh product distributors with complete solutions. With developments in the industry and technologies, optimization of transportation links, reduction of transportation costs and intelligent scheduling and improvement of vehicle efficiency have become the urgent barriers in the cold-chain logistics industry. Geoconcept, as a recognized market pioneer and technological leader in the market of geographical optimization, was invited to the exhibition.
The route optimization engine can completely change the way logistics companies’ dispatch vehicles today. Thanks to powerful optimization algorithms, TourSolver generates the most profitable routes and schedules possible, all while considering customer specifications, human resources constraints and the special features of each individual vehicle. The use of Geoconcept optimization engine allows daily activities that would otherwise require several man-hours to be done within several minutes. Compared with manual dispatching, the engine-optimized results are more scientific and efficient.
TourSolver is suitable regardless of the size of the vehicle fleet and available in cloud, servers and desktop solutions, and has a large user base throughout the world. In just a few clicks, the user can set optimized routes and schedules and reduce journey distance and time. Logistical costs are reduced by more than 15%, CO² emissions are reduced, and mobile team productivity is improved for a greater quality of service.
In the future, cold-chain logistics will see accelerated growth and enterprises will have higher demands for high-quality, high-efficient and environment-friendly logistics. Hence, route optimization engine is an indispensable link in cold-chain logistics.
