Improve profitability by filling your racks more efficiently and dynamically upselling your customers
RIO
Rack Item Optimizer
RIO Overview
Optimize your Loading Process
RIO is the result of over twenty years of Supply Chain strategies, and over 16 years of LEAN in the Green Industry experience. Our patented software will allow you to more closely manage your logistical payloads and ensure that your customers are receiving their product with the highest level of accuracy while exceeding quality standards.
Completely Fill
Racks
Many growers today leave it up to their dock employees to determine what to put on the plant racks; this is time consuming and, in most cases, leads to partially filled racks. RIO puts the supply chain in your control, allowing you to optimize your racks and truck loads. The tried and true First Fit Decreasing algorithm will allow your order entry team to completely fill the racks before the orders are routed.
Reduce Transportation Costs
Sending out partially filled racks to your customers significantly increases transportation costs, while simultaneously costing growers opportunities to upsell their customers to full racks. Once an order is imported, RIO instantly calculates the number of racks required as well as each rack’s capacity (percent full).
Complete
Visibility
RIO provides a level of visibility that will not only position your sales team to increase sales, but will also drastically decrease the confusion on the shipping dock due to logistical challenges accompanying incomplete racks. RIO’s patented algorithms, along with multiple sorting capabilities, will allow for orders to be optimized whether the customer is an independent garden center or a big box store.
End-to-End
Efficiency
RIO Racks Sheets are created for every rack and essentially become individual packing slips, making receiving more efficient while minimizing discrepancies. The rack sheet has the supermarket rack sequence number identified so the employees know what rack in the supermarket to pull the product from. This makes shopping quick and easy while helping to mitigate the risk of picking the wrong product.
Integrations
RIO is ERP/MRP agnostic. We can integrate with nearly any system and have
numerous examples of multiple different ERP integrations for the same customer
What our clients say
Your product life cycles are shorter, marketing campaigns are short-lived and Engineering simply
must be on-time, on-budget and exceeding all design criteria.