Case Study: Bibby Distribution achieves enhanced strategic route planning and faster, more reliable quoting with Aptean Routing & Scheduling Paragon Edition

Paragon route scheduling software boosts strategic planning for Bibby Distribution

Bibby Distribution, the UK’s leading independent logistics company operating more than 1,000 vehicles from 60 operating centres with 2,500 staff, needed to standardise strategic route scheduling within its business development team to improve modelling, costing and responsiveness to clients and prospects. To address this, Bibby selected Aptean Routing & Scheduling Paragon Edition as its routing and scheduling solution for strategic planning across the business.

Aptean Routing & Scheduling Paragon Edition was installed in August and used to model new distribution operations, calculate resource requirements and transport costs, and test alternative strategies; its Multi-Period Planner capability enabled planning over longer timescales. The rollout delivered immediate benefits—faster data input and analyses, quicker responses to clients and prospects, and greater confidence that quotes are based on tightly optimised, practical schedules—improving Bibby’s strategic planning and commercial responsiveness across its 1,000+ vehicle network.

Bibby Distribution

Martin O’Reilly

General Manager Business Development