Biarri Supply Chain delivered vital improvements to pathology courier routes

SA Pathology and Primary Healthcare needed to manage their time-sensitive vehicle routes with greater efficiency. They are responsible for collecting pathology specimens from their many customers several times a day. Additionally, their collections needed to be timed to ensure the specimens are delivered to one of a number of labs within limited hours of being drawn. Creating these routes manually was time-consuming and complex for supervisors.

Biarri Supply Chain partnered with SA Pathology to develop a scheduling and routing engine to optimise the collection activities while complying with the constraints and rules in place. Biarri’s Transport Planning Software produced routes which reduced the number of drivers by around 13% and reduced the weekly shift hours by 41 hours. Idle driver time was also reduced by 46% by the generation of more efficient shifts and routes.

The solution freed supervisors from the time-consuming task of having to manually generate routes and reduced transport costs through the creation and implementation of efficient vehicle routes on an ongoing basis.