Advanced Shipment Planning
Delivery Route Planning Software for Packaging Manufacturers
Advanced Shipment Planning (ASP) uses machine learning to build optimized loads and routes from live production data, reducing the effort, time, and cost of achieving 95% or higher on-time-in-full (OTIF) delivery. Full trucks, fewer miles, and a shipping planner who manages exceptions instead of building every load by hand.
What Is Advanced Shipment Planning?
Advanced Shipment Planning is Amtech’s load and route planning extension for EnCore ERP. It automatically builds delivery schedules across multiple trucks and days based on actual production readiness, truck capacity, and customer commitments, with machine learning that streamlines loading assignments and dynamic route re-sequencing visualized on Bing Maps. Because it reads live EnCore data, ASP never plans a shipment the plant hasn’t produced.
Load Building Shouldn’t Be a Full-Time Job
Shipping teams juggle changing production schedules, tight delivery windows, truck availability, and last-minute customer requests, usually in spreadsheets, usually under deadline. Trucks leave with empty trailer space, planners burn hours rebuilding routes, and OTIF slips one exception at a time. ASP automates the planning so the plan absorbs the change.
One Plan Connecting Production, Trucks, and Promises
For Shipping Managers and Dispatch: a command center, not a spreadsheet
- The Truck Plan view puts production status, inventory, truck space, and route plans on one screen, exceptions surface; you resolve them.
- Plan multiple trucks and multiple days simultaneously; re-sequence routes dynamically with Bing Maps visualization.
- Intuitively assign orders and visualize trucks, let the software do the work while you handle what actually needs judgment.
For Plant Managers and Scheduling: shipments that match production reality
- Production-aware scheduling plans loads from actual production readiness, not optimistic promises.
- Real-time visibility into the production status of every planned order before the load is finalized.
- When the schedule shifts, routes adapt, no more end-of-day fire drills at the dock.
For Operations and Finance Leaders: OTIF up, freight cost down
- Maximize truck utilization and reduce miles traveled, every full trailer is freight spend you didn’t waste.
- Machine learning keeps improving loading assignments and route decisions as it learns your operation.
- 95%+ OTIF protects your customers’ scorecard, and your contracts.
The Results Plants See with Amtech Scheduling Automation
Coleman Containers runs Amtech’s scheduling automation with Advanced Shipment Planning integrated across its operation. Documented in their case study: scheduling automation went from 0% to 65–85% across machines, they achieved their original 95% OTIF goal, and reset the target to 98%.
Plan It, Ship It, Prove It
EnCore ERP
Orders, inventory, and production status feed planning in real time
Sign & Drive
Routes end in signatures, electronic proof of delivery closes the loop
Customer Care Portal
Customers watch their own deliveries with live truck mapping
TopGun
Barcode-verified truck loading matches the load to the plan
Advanced Planning Board
Converting schedules and shipping plans stay in sync
FAQ
What is delivery route planning software for manufacturers?
It is software that automatically builds truck loads and delivery routes from live order, inventory, and production data. Amtech’s Advanced Shipment Planning does this for corrugated and folding carton plants inside EnCore ERP, planning multiple trucks and days simultaneously.
How does ASP improve OTIF performance?
ASP plans shipments from actual production readiness and re-optimizes as conditions change, reducing the effort, time, and cost of achieving 95% or higher on-time-in-full delivery. Coleman Containers, running Amtech scheduling automation with ASP integrated, hit its 95% OTIF goal and reset the target to 98%.
Does ASP use machine learning?
Yes. Planners define the parameters; machine learning streamlines loading assignments and route planning, and keeps improving decisions as it learns the operation.
Can planners still adjust routes manually?
Yes. ASP is built for exception management, the software generates the plan, and planners intervene only where judgment is needed, with drag-and-drop assignment and dynamic re-sequencing visualized on Bing Maps.
How does ASP know what’s ready to ship?
ASP is integrated with EnCore ERP and reads real-time production status, so loads are planned around orders that will actually be ready, not around a static schedule.
Full Trucks. Fewer Miles. Promises Kept.
See how packaging plants use Advanced Shipment Planning to automate load building, cut freight cost, and protect OTIF.
