Hunt Brothers Pizza, LLC has signed a contract with InterGis to implement Visual Control Room in its pizza supplies operation. The Company licenses more than 6000 convenience stores in 26 states to sell its unique pizza products. These convenience stores are restocked each week with new pizza inventory and supplies from 13 Hunt Brothers-owned warehouses. Historically, Hunt Brothers dispatches 89 trucks, making 13-14 stops per day, allowing drivers to choose the sequence of stops.
Driver routes and store sequence will be automated and optimized using Visual Control Room (VCR), the leading routing, scheduling and dispatching software. Hunt Brothers will use VCR to prepare one-week schedules for each driver in each branch, eliminating backtracking and inefficient use of drivers’ time. Already completed pilot deployment in two warehouses demonstrates that this implementation saves miles and cost, allowing for an increase in the number of stops per day without adding drivers. VCR will also import GPS data real-time from in-vehicle devices already installed by Discrete Wireless, allowing management to observe how drivers run their routes and print exception reports. Lastly, VCR will interface with Hunt Brothers use of Great Plains accounting software.
“Hunt Brothers excellent performance for their convenience store partners has fueled tremendous growth for them, but their operation has remained largely unchanged,” stated Steve Brown, president, InterGis. “The implementation of Visual Control Room will bring unparalleled efficiency to their business, allowing more growth with less overhead. We’re pleased to play a significant part in the future of this successful enterprise.”
InterGis creates and markets proprietary software solutions that perform automated routing, scheduling and vehicle optimization for companies who have transportation, delivery or distribution fleets and for companies who have field service or mobile workers. InterGis products are designed to bring cost-saving, operational efficiencies to these businesses by providing software that produces the least cost assignment and best utilization of resources of work to be done, through a suite of easy-to-use, visual/graphic tools. InterGis also offers their software to developers and other business associates who are looking to form partnerships in marketing complete solutions, or use the routing, scheduling and mapping engine within their own software applications.
