PARIS is the market leading planning solution for full-load multimodal transport.
Unlike traditional transport management systems, PARIS intelligently plans and optimises collection and delivery bookings in real-time using available truck, rail and barge/feeder transport options.
The focus of the planning desk changes to overseeing the plan generated by PARIS, managing exceptions and improving service performance.
PARIS has been designed to significantly reduce inland transport costs by optimising both the laden and empty transport moves.
PARIS plans the best transport mode for deliveries and collections by scheduling transport bookings on available space of rail, barge and coastal feeder services combined with truck transport planning.
PARIS is developed and supported from Hutchison Ports (UK) offices within the 'Cambridge cluster', a region around Cambridge, England, which is home to high-tech businesses focusing on software, electronics and latest technologies. With links to Cambridge universities, the area is one of the most important technology centres in Europe.
PARIS is a highly configurable software solution that has very advanced algorithms and parallel processing to provide optimised transport planning in real-time. The PARIS team continues to innovate and develop new solutions to planning intermodal transport, adding new features to PARIS year on year.
PARIS was designed to optimise the inland planning of laden and empty transport legs.
PARIS considers all available booking information to ensure the transport plan produced is feasible and executable.
PARIS is the only true multimodal planning solution that optimises all modes of transport.
PARIS provides the most accurate prediction of stock information by bringing the latest transport and equipment situation together in real-time in one system.
PARIS optimises with automatic selection of Haulier based on cost, availability and capability.
We continue to be at the forefront of planning technology by continually innovating the PARIS products.
On a £20m transport spend, PARIS typically saves between 5% and 8% of the transport budget, including in excess of 1,000,000km of reduced empty distance travelled by truck.
Reduced empty mileage results in a significant carbon footprint reduction, contributing to the constantly increasing focus on sustainability.
MSC (UK) Ltd selected PARIS as its intermodal system, with the aim of establishing a low cost solution that would enable us to deliver a world class service, respond to our customer needs to be greener and drive out waste whilst planning all our multimodal options.
Kelvin Wilden, Transport Director MSC (UK) Ltd.
We have seen massive growth in recent years and through the use of PARIS our planning team has not needed to grow in size. PARIS continues to innovate our business, year on year.
Kelvin Wilden, Transport Director MSC (UK) Ltd.
The PARIS system delivers real time planning and optimisation across all of our transport moves enabling us to maximise vehicle use and reduce the empty miles run.
Hamburg Sud, www.hamburgsud.com
In Great Britain PARIS saved a total of 580,000 kilometres for the same transport capacity in the first ten months of 2012. This is equivalent to avoiding 373 tons of climate malign gases, which would have accrued without optimisation.
Hamburg Sud, www.hamburgsud.com
Today, PARIS is used throughout Europe optimising in excess of 1 million transport orders in deep and short sea markets, planning over 200 rail and barge services and allocating transport to over 500 different hauliers.
The unrivalled optimisation and comprehensive features in PARIS give our customers a competitive edge when planning their transport.
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