The Transportation Enhancement of Equipment and Office Supplies : A Case Study of Saha Office company

Abstract

            This independent study aims to enhance the performance of Saha Office company’s stationery and office supplies delivery since the company was facing problems with delay outbound delivery. This study proposes concept of vehicle routing problem by applying VRP solver software to arrange the transportation route together with realistic routes evaluation function on Google map application for reducing cost of transportation and adjusting route arrangement, which lead to an improvement on key performance index (KPIs). The samples of this study are all employees and vehicles in company’s transportation department. The result of this study shows that the concept of vehicle routing problem could reduce fixed cost of transportation 16.67% per day and 30.12 % per day for variant cost. By applying the result of VRP solver on Google maps application shows the result that it could reduce working time in average 10.94% per day. Moreover, the study shows that applying concept of vehicle routing problem could enhance the performance of transportation toward sales 20.85% and 22.41% toward delivery stop point.