Booker uses Paragon in reshaped distribution
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• Booker Foods is using Paragon for Windows computerised transport planning system as part of a restructuring of its wholesale and cash-andcart.: business.
The system has a detailed digital road network database and can calculate the most efficient routes and schedules, taking into account vehicle capacities, drivers shift patterns, delivery "time windows", aver age speeds and unloading rates.
Other software packages provide daily order details while Paragon calculates routes and schedules.
The host system fields the results, then arranges a picking process at Bookers' regional distribution centres.
Booker Foods is currently running trials on a Volvo FL614 rigid reefer with Allison's MD 3060 PR five-speed automatic transmission with a view to cutting operating costs and improving driver conditions, The Gray & Adams dualtemperature two-compartment bodied rigid based at its Enfield, north London depot joins a local distribution fleet where two clutch replacements a year are the norm. Although operations manager Peter Powell stresses its early clays yet but "there are encouraging signs of better fuel consumption and drivers appreciate the two pedal driving".