Case Studies

Included in this section are case studies for some of our major international & national clients outlining the challenges they faced and how Orbit Systems were able to utilize Operations Research techniques and systems to overcome the challenges. Each of the clients below has seen significant benefits from the introduction of our solutions, including over USD$4,000,000 saved per annum.

Warehousing & Logistics Planning & Systems

In an increasingly competitive market, manufacturing companies must become more and more efficient in the way they produce, store and transport products. Orbit Systems has been working with the world’s best manufacturing companies like Procter & Gamble and Nestlé to develop planning tools to help in just these areas.

As well as analyzing current practice and suggesting better strategies, Orbit Systems has also developed a number of intelligent planning tools for warehousing and logistics.

Our capabilities include

Storage capability and layout planning
Resource planning
Route planning
Loading building and packing algorithms

Example Products & Services

AutoScheduler: A warehouse planning tool that helps Procter & Gamble make shipments on time at least cost.
AutoLoader: A system that determines the best way to load pallets into trailers in order to meet legal requirements such as weight distribution, while minimising the chance of damaging goods in transit and meeting customer preferences to the greatest extent possible.
AutoVLB: A system that plans multiple trailer shipments between sites that have large volumes of items with differing priorities that require transportation. The system determines what number of trailers are required to send high-priority items while ensuring a product mix that efficiently fills up each trailer.
SpaceSaver: A tool that saves space in a warehouse by advising on ways to merge partial locations and reallocate items into appropriately sized locations, as well as re-organise items with different ages to facilitate FIFO.