KASSETTS - Knowledge-enabled Access of Central Europe SMEs to Efficient Transnational Transport Solutions
Overview
Background & policy context:
KASSETTS was born to answer the need for ICT tools to help manufacturing companies, in particular SMEs, to optimise their transnational logistic traffics. SMEs EU logistics management was far from being optimal and SMEs could hardly access the optimised transnational transport solutions because of:
- small shipping; low frequency of their transports, the generation of a scattered transport demand; producing a large number of unfilled running vehicles; low use of intermodal transport (with increasing transport emissions);
- their low level of ICT endowment limiting their accessibility to the logistic supply.
Objectives:
KASSETTS aimed to solve the aforementioned problems by creating a stable EU operative ICT network of logistics brokers, based on open source policy, in which every broker is a joint logistic office among SMEs.
Methodology:
Ordering - Enabled manufacturing companies and SMEs to submit all daily transportation orders and keep their evidence and status.
Planning - Optimised the transportation missions by matching the orders' parameters with most effective routes and logistic operators' capacities, and assigned them to the best transport service providers.
Reporting - Sent detailed information on the used vehicle, costs and kilometres to each manufacturing company.
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