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How a Concrete Supplier Cut Logistics Costs by 20 Percent
Episode 99 of The Operations Podcast dives into a surprisingly overlooked operations challenge: heavy-materials logistics. Lucas and Luna examine how a mid-sized concrete supplier in the US Midwest used a combination of route optimization, telematics data, and customer-demand smoothing to reduce its distribution costs by 20 percent — saving $3.2 million in a single year. They unpack the specific decisions: why dispatch software alone wasn't enough, how the company shifted from first-come-first-served to time-window scheduling, and what role driver behavior played in fuel savings…
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