One trip or two: how do you decide with a calculation, not a hunch?
The calculation opened from the order: two scenarios side by side, the verdict in a sentence and a number, the label on each assumption and the case where the freight doesn’t fit.
What you get
- A figure to show the client who asks you to split the load.
- A decision a new dispatcher understands from day one.
- Capacity checked against your declared trailers, at planning time.
Transcript
The question "one trip or two?" comes up several times a week, and it gets settled by experience. Experience is often right, but it doesn't show the math, and it doesn't pass on to a new dispatcher.
Here, the calculation opens straight from the order. It reads the freight already entered and the trip's kilometres, and puts the two scenarios side by side. Splitting means loading and unloading one extra time, and that has a price, written on a line of its own.
The verdict is a sentence and a number: "one trip, saving eight thousand six hundred and twenty dirhams."
And every assumption carries a label. The cost per kilometre is derived from your closed trips over ninety days, and it says how many. Handling is your setting. The fixed cost per trip is the default value, because you haven't entered it yet. Advice whose assumptions you can't open is just an opinion.
And if the freight won't fit even in the biggest of your trailers, the "one trip" option dims and shows its reason, and the recommendation changes — not because it's cheaper, but because otherwise the freight doesn't leave.
The advisor changes nothing in your data: it's a calculator on top of it. No artificial intelligence — just arithmetic you can check.