Omnibus Koch GmbH is an established transport company with around 500 employees, specialising in passenger and school transport. The company faces particularly complex planning and costing challenges in the area of school transport: children living in different locations, tight time slots, specialised vehicle equipment and intense competitive pressure from public tenders.
The challenge: cost-effective planning in the tender market.
In the school transport sector, contracts are often put out to tender to several transport companies. In many cases, the contract is awarded to the company that submits the most cost-effective bid.
For Omnibus Koch, this means that every route must be calculated in a way that is realistic, accurate and, at the same time, cost-effective.
The particular challenges involved are:
- Vehicles are often parked at the drivers’ homes
- In some cases, co-drivers are on duty
- Different accessibility requirements, e.g. ramps for wheelchair users
- Fixed collection and arrival time slots
- Taking into account the maximum transport times
- Different distances and places of residence of the children
The solution: Tender and route planning with TransIT.
To meet these requirements, Omnibus Koch relies on TransIT for cost calculation and route optimisation in tendering processes.
With TransIT, you can:
- Optimised route plans created
- All relevant planning parameters have been taken into account
- Enables realistic and competitive cost calculations
This provides Omnibus Koch with a sound basis for decision-making when responding to tenders, enabling it to calculate quotes that are both cost-effective and reliable.
The result: significantly better chances of winning contracts.
The use of TransIT has a direct impact on the success of the tender process.
“By using TransIT, we’ve been able to significantly increase our order volume,” says Sascha Trillhaase, a user at Omnibus Koch.
Thanks to optimised planning, the chances of submitting financially attractive bids increase significantly – without taking on operational risks.
