Territory · Substrate signal

04Vanning + load building.

22 distribution centers + 19 manufacturing plants + private fleet (one of the nation's largest) + 200+ contracted carriers. The 4 Big Bets explicitly call out lower cost-to-serve. Multimodal vanning + 3D load building is exactly that lever.

The dispatch loop

Plant → distribution center → store · with constraints.

Demand signal · store-level constraints · retailer-OTIF dock windows

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CADDIE · dispatch planning + multimodal vanning + 3D load building

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Plant-to-DC scheduling

DC-to-store route planning

Private fleet + carrier dispatch

Symbotic-aware load mix

Caddie optimizes load mix against bulky-product constraints, dock-window penalties, and Symbotic warehouse cube.

What we read

The cost-to-serve lever.

4 Big Bets · cost-to-serve

Stated savings lever: "lower cost-to-serve." Vanning + load building lives exactly here.

Path to Purchase

Network footprint

22 distribution centers + 19 manufacturing plants + private fleet (one of the nation's largest) + 200+ contracted carriers.

Descartes case

Symbotic constraint

Tolleson live · Melrose Park installing · target 30% volume automated by year-end. Symbotic does not care about cadence; it cares about cube.

Supply Chain Dive

What Enmovil delivers here

Three surfaces · one dispatch loop.

Multimodal vanning

Across mixed truck / rail / private-fleet / contracted-carrier mix. Optimizes for cost + service + capacity in one decision.

3D load building

Cube-aware against Symbotic warehouse constraints + bulky product + retailer dock-window timing.

Capacity planning

Cross-DC capacity rebalancing when one DC throttles (labor, dock, weather) and another has slack — drafted action with audit trail.

Proof anchor

Where we have shipped this shape.

~$2.15M / yr

Multimodal vanning savings · tier-1 automotive manufacturer · manual Excel eliminated

10%

Transport-spend reduction on country-wide dispatch · Fortune 100 packaged-goods manufacturer

8-15%

Logistics cost savings · across deployments

For the conversation

Questions, fence, timeline.

How is plant-to-DC-to-store load building decided today — at the DC level, the BU level, or via Blue Yonder Enterprise Supply Planning?
When a DC throttles (labor, dock, weather), how is cross-DC capacity rebalancing decided — and on what timeframe?
Where would a first-lane vanning pilot land — a private-fleet route, a contracted-carrier lane, or a plant-to-DC inbound flow?

We would touch

Multimodal vanning across truck + rail + private fleet + contracted carriers.
3D load building against bulky / cube / dock-window constraints.
Cross-DC capacity rebalancing with audit trail.
Symbotic-aware load-mix optimization.

We would not

Symbotic warehouse automation.
Manhattan / Blue Yonder warehouse system replacement.
Dock-door physical operations.
Driver-app / fleet telematics.

90-day proof · one DC pair · one product family

First lane: one inbound + one outbound DC instrumented for cross-network sequencing, with 90 days of historical operations data for the throttle / rebalance pattern.