Kardinal Transport
Cold Chain Transport
The trend today is to increase the need for fresh product delivery from traders, artisans and restaurants. In the Paris area, the latter are delivered 1 to 3 times a week on average.
Manufacturers and wholesalers are currently developing numerous services around delivery in order to meet the needs of their customers, who sometimes now enforce delivery frequencies and transit times.
Kardinal helps you easily plan tours that meet your customers’ constraints, while preserving your margin.
Use cases
Use cases for fresh and perishable goods delivery
Freshness-constrained scheduling
Based on the orders to be delivered and each product's shelf life, our algorithms build routes that respect freshness deadlines, while keeping costs and productivity under control.
Predictive ETA and cold chain
Based on scheduled routes, our algorithms calculate predictive arrival times to coordinate handoff at cold storage facilities or with the end customer and limit cold chain breaks.
Real-time adjustments
As deliveries unfold, in the event of unexpected delays, our algorithm continuously recalculates the best route adjustments, taking into account traffic and driver conditions, to preserve product quality.
Multi-temperature optimization
When a single vehicle carries frozen, chilled and ambient products, our algorithms build routes that account for temperature compartments and their specific constraints.
Operational constraints
Handle the constraints specific to cold-chain last-mile delivery.
From the expected baseline to the signature rules almost no one can model, pick a level to see what the optimization accounts for.
Time windows
Hard opening hours and soft customer slots on the same stop, both respected.
Multi-dimension capacity
Weight, volume and pallet count: every truck limit is respected at once.
Working time
Breaks, paid overtime, and shift limits handled inside the route.
Benchmark
Compare our coverage to the competition.
Our benchmark pits 149 real business constraints against 10 competing routing APIs, sector by sector. Cold-chain delivery gets its own breakdown, and every result is verifiable at the source.
