Overview

Dairy supply chains are complex and markets are dynamic. Margins are tight and customers are demanding. Above all, in the weekly crush of scheduling, time is short. As a scheduler it is important, but virtually impossible, to assess all of the factors all of the time, and in the end..."make all the right moves." Dairy.com Scheduling changes this reality by providing a powerful new way of managing your dairy supply chain - connecting your production facilities, trading partners, and haulers over the Internet - so production schedules can be optimized, communicated and adjusted in real-time. Dairy.com Scheduling enables dairy organizations to quickly make and communicate "the right" scheduling decisions for a more efficient and responsive dairy supply chain and a bigger bottom-line.

The Challenge

A big part of dairy scheduling is keeping plants, trading partners, and haulers on the same page with the same information. Every decision and every change to your schedule requires multiple rounds of communication across plants, trading partner locations, and haulers. It often takes extraordinary efforts to keep plants running with little time left for analyzing supply chain alternatives. With multiple plants, suppliers, customers, and haulers, simply gathering and disseminating information becomes such a burden that the best solution is often sacrificed in the interest of finding any fast and workable alternative.

A Better Way

Dairy.com Scheduling puts you back in command by providing real time visibility to the needs and availability entered by the plants and trading partners across your supply chain. With Dairy.com's QuickAssign technology, you "drag and drop" your available loads over your needs, instantly notifying your plants and trading partners of your decisions and alerting your hauler(s) to pick-up and delivery times. Security access rules ensure that each plant, trading partner, and hauler only see the loads they are associated with. Changing your schedule on Dairy.com Scheduling instantly emails or faxes all involved parties and instantly updates their schedules. Haulers confirm loads and negotiate pick-up and delivery times on-line, giving you up-to-the-second load status completely integrated within your scheduling view. With the mundane and repetitive task of scheduling communication now automated by Dairy.com Scheduling, you have more time to ensure production schedules are optimized and to focus on the opportunities that create real value for your organization.

Linkage to Spot Markets

An extremely powerful feature of the Scheduling tool is its full integration with Dairy.com's commodities and transportation exchange. See the whole picture - your internal loads, contract loads, and external spot loads - on the same schedule. Take any excess supply or unfilled needs to the spot market with a mouse click and quickly pursue trading opportunities, or weigh the economic benefits of scheduling a load internally against available external posts. And, once you've made your trades, QuickShip enables posting to over 100 haulers, so you get loads covered at the best rate. With Dairy.com Scheduling, your supply chain becomes an efficient and responsive tool for growing revenue and profits.

Dairy.com Scheduling gives you visibility and control over your supply chain enabling you to be more responsive and efficient.