Load Planner
Load Planner is a comprehensive solution for distribution companies that enhances fleet efficiency by automating and optimizing truck loading and routing through features like multi-stop, multi-zone load planning, weight compliance, pallet optimization, and seamless integration with existing systems to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and ensure stable, compliant, and damage-free deliveries.
Optimize Every Load. Maximize Every Route.
Load Planner is a solution for distribution companies that maximizes fleet efficiency through smarter truck utilization, optimized loading, and higher-performing delivery routes.
Build Faster, Load Smarter, Deliver Efficiently
Load Planner boosts productivity in the warehouse, on the dock, and at customer sites by optimizing how your team builds every truck that leaves your distribution center.
- Operational Efficiency: Optimized selection, faster loading, better trailer space utilization, and more organized and accurate delivery with reduced damages and eliminated re-work.
- Automated Load Planning: Save time and reduce manual effort to create optimized loads and loading diagrams.
- Complete Weight Compliance: Avoid overweight and axle-balancing fines, and eliminate re-loading to meet weight requirements.
- Don't Change How You Work: Integrate with your existing systems, workflows, and equipment available at each distribution center.
Load Planner: Key Capabilities
Everything you need to streamline loading, optimize routes, and improve your outbound distribution operations.
- Multi-Stop, Multi-Zone: Enable dynamic truck selection and configuration driven by automated, route-aware temperature zone grouping, stop-based sequencing, and capacity validation.
- Load Optimization: Support complex pallet building and selection rules at product, layer, and pallet level. Optimize for product characteristics, pallet cube, and weight constraints—ensuring efficient pallet formation and stable loads that hold up from dock to delivery.
- Warehouse Execution: Dynamically identify optimal stop-aware load plan and pallet orientation. Automatically generate loading instructions including partitions, load straps, and load bars.
- Weight Balancing: Meet weight limitations, prevent regulatory fines, and improve transit stability by ensuring loads are balanced evenly across axles and side-to-side while also leveling position heights.
- Driver Execution: Provide load plan visualization and spatial awareness in terms of stop-aware truck door configuration, pallet cube, and pallet adjacency.
- Pre-Built Integrations: Ingest orders and route data with existing connectors.
Don’t Take Our Word, Take Theirs
Read what it's like to use BFC Software.
"Over the years, our trust in BFC has paid off. They've not just optimized our operations and profitability; they've been a reliable partner that's allowed us to grow and expand our business. That's why we've never needed to look elsewhere."
Robert Berkowitz
President @ City Line
“BFC Software saved us so much time and resources while giving us way more insights into the operations and efficiency of our business than we ever had manually."
Ed Maybrun
President @ Cotati Food Service
"BFC reduced the number of selectors from 30 to 17, eliminated 2 checkers and improved mispicks from 1-1,000 to 1-12,000."
Dennis Merchant
Operations Manager @ Jordano's FoodService
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