Customer requirement

A reliable solution for managing transport

Sapio was already using a software solution to manage both industrial gas distribution and home oxygen therapy cylinder deliveries, but due to difficulties presented by the then solution provider, it became necessary to rely on a company that could guide it towards a new, stable and technologically future-proof solution.

On.Plant solution

Picking up the baton and accompanying Sapio into the future

The On.Plant/TMS solution gave Sapio the stability it needed, making certain aspects of delivery management even more efficient and opening the door to new possibilities for tackling future business challenges.
The transport services organised by Sapio are divided into three business areas:

• Industrial and medical gases in packages
  Deliveries of technical and/or medical gases, transported in battery-powered vehicles or pressure vessels, to supply companies in the industrial and hospital sectors
  
  
• Industrial and medical gases in tanks
  Transport in cryogenic tanks of refrigerated liquefied gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, CO2)
  
  
• Home oxygen therapy
  Home deliveries of liquid and gaseous oxygen in cryogenic containers and cylinders, directly to patients' homes

For the transport of industrial and medical gases in packages and for home oxygen therapy deliveries, ONIT has provided Sapio with Planning and Cost Control functionalities.

To date, the system is used by a centralised structure that receives orders from customers and plans trips throughout the country. 

Distribution starts from a dozen directly managed branches, strategically located, which receive the trip planning developed by TMS, physically prepare the trips and transfer them to the carriers' on-board terminals.

Sapio's fleet includes around 100 vehicles dedicated to cylinder distribution, making around 350 deliveries per day to the industrial sector, and between 350 and 400 vans for home deliveries (around 7,000 per day) of oxygen therapy cylinders.

In addition to the large number of vehicles to organise and daily trips to plan, one of the main challenges concerned the cartography to be used, which was optimised to provide routes suitable for heavy vehicles, with specific constraints also related to the transport of dangerous goods.

On.Plant/TMS made it possible not only to plan the fleet's activities, but also to cost the journeys during the preparation phase and to calculate the final cost of those carried out, with the consequent monthly issuance of pre-invoices to contracted carriers.

The relationship with Sapio grew with the creation of the Document Portal: a platform dedicated to the collection, management and digitisation of documentation relating to the transport companies that collaborate with the Group, their vehicles and drivers. This allows for quick and accurate monitoring of all regulatory deadlines, ensuring that Sapio can be certain that it is using compliant suppliers. 
To complete the optimised management of carriers, Onit also offers Sapio a support service in which an operator handles contact and reminders to carriers and drivers.

Finally, the TMS has been further enhanced with the GPS Monitoring feature: real-time integration with on-board terminals to detect the GPS position of vehicles and the routes actually travelled.