Case Study: NHS Blood and Transplant achieves timely, traceable deliveries to UK hospitals with Aptean Routing & Scheduling Paragon Edition

NHS Blood & Transplant Enables Time-Critical Deliveries with Aptean Routing & Scheduling

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), responsible for moving blood, organs and tissues to over 250 hospitals, faced unreliable, largely manual route planning across a fleet of more than 200 specialist vehicles and fragmented planning, execution and tracking systems. To address these time‑critical logistics challenges, NHSBT selected Aptean Routing & Scheduling Calidus Edition as its new Transportation Management System (TMS).

Aptean Routing & Scheduling Calidus Edition delivered a fully integrated solution—linking the ERP, route optimization, telematics/Sat Nav, electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) and a hospital portal—equipping 250+ drivers with ePOD on Android and 200+ vehicles with tracking and automated traffic‑avoidance routing. The Aptean system enabled barcode scanning of transportation containers for end‑to‑end traceability, live tracking for hospitals, dashboards on driver performance and fuel use, and a measurable step‑change in reliability and control of NHSBT’s time‑critical deliveries.

NHS Blood and Transplant