Kuehne + Nagel Logistics
Who Is the Client?
Kuehne + Nagel Logistics is a logistics and distribution center managing high volumes of diverse freight daily. Acting as a key supply chain link for their B2B customers, the team handles everything from incoming inventory to outbound shipments, where reliable and precise load planning is essential to delivering on their service promise.
What Was Kuehne + Nagel Looking to Optimize in Its Logistics?
Before integrating EasyCargo, the distribution center handled its entire load planning workflow through manual estimation. Without a dedicated application or specialized digital tool, logistics planners had to rely strictly on intuition, experience, and math to arrange complex orders.
This “guessing game” made container capacity planning highly inefficient. It was incredibly difficult to predict the exact space requirements for mixed-industry cargo, resulting in frequently wasted space. The team often faced the stressful scenario of realizing a shipment wouldn’t fit only after the physical loading process had already begun at the dock, a bottleneck that directly threatened their core mission of providing satisfying customer service.
Key challenges:
- Estimation-Based Planning: Relying on guesswork and intuition instead of data-driven models.
- Lack of Dedicated Tools: Operating without a specialized loading application to visualize vehicle layouts.
- Loading Uncertainty: Inability to accurately verify volume availability before physical loading commenced.
- Service Quality Pressure: The urgent need to modernize day-to-day operations to offer a better service to their customers.
How Did Our Container Capacity Planner Help?
EasyCargo provided the distribution center with an intuitive, user-friendly application that completely replaced manual estimation with reliable 3D modeling, giving the logistics team total visual control over their cargo spaces.
Load Verification: Instead of guessing, the logistics team can now check if cargo fits into a container or truck before a single pallet is moved in the warehouse. The software generates a clear visual layout, ensuring planners can verify the layout before loading begins.
Container Capacity Planning: With EasyCargo, the center can execute flawless container capacity planning. They can mix different freight sizes from various industries, knowing exactly how much volume remains.
Cargo Space Optimization: The powerful 3D algorithm automatically arranges mixed cargo to maximize available space and ensure the highest possible load density for every vehicle while respecting restrictions and weight limits.
Easy Software Adoption: True to the company’s feedback, EasyCargo is easy to use. The distribution team adopted the platform seamlessly into their daily routine without facing a steep learning curve or needing training.
What Were the Results?
Shifting from manual estimation to digital precision has completely transformed the distribution center’s daily operations. The logistics team can now rapidly check if cargo fits into a container or truck, stripping stress and delay out of the loading process. By achieving better cargo space optimization, they have significantly reduced wasted trailer volume and eliminated last-minute dockside surprises. Most importantly, this operational leap allowed them to achieve their ultimate goal: delivering a faster, more transparent, and noticeably better service to their customers.
What Does Kuehne + Nagel Say About EasyCargo?
“It is much easier for us to check if a shipment will fit into a container or truck. We would absolutely recommend EasyCargo; it is very easy to use.”
– Cindy Raus, Contract Logistics Planning Specialist, Kuehne + Nagel Logistics
