ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) division has presented SCALAR, its advanced new digital Fleet Orchestration Platform, ahead of IAA Transportation 2022. This new platform supports a wide range of customer requirements, including fully automatic and live planning, routing, scheduling and dispatching solutions.
Hjalmar Van Raemdonck, Head of Digital System Solutions, ZF Commercial Vehicle Solutions Division, said, “Leveraging the powerful capabilities of our SCALAR digital Fleet Orchestration Platform will enable ZF to virtually redefine Fleet Management.”
Leveraging unique vehicle data and taking real-time, AI-based automated decision-making and fleet optimisation to the next level, SCALAR’s open, modular platform can support a wide range of customer requirements for both homogeneous and mixed fleets, claims the company.
The company claims that with over 25% of freight journeys estimated to be empty runs, Orchestration has the potential to help improve fleet efficiency by sending the right driver to the right vehicle at the right time. This includes helping select the most fuel-efficient and less environmentally impactful route, supporting fleet sustainability and reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Planning, routing, dispatching and business intelligence can be actively integrated and optimised with AI. This includes eliminating management by exception and human error margins and ensuring live adaption and re-optimisation to automate fleet operations fully.
Raemdonck added, “Helping commercial fleets achieve new levels of efficiency, SCALAR establishes intelligent end-to-end systems which ‘orchestrate’ the whole process of freight logistics as well as passenger transport.”