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Pollux at ZUFALL

How paper loading lists in the ZUFALL logistics group network became a digital loading process – built during live operation, in regular use today.

The starting point

The ZUFALL logistics group is a family-owned logistics provider based in Göttingen, Germany. In its groupage terminals, what arrived during the day gets loaded every evening – under time pressure, with changing drivers, and with a process the TMS only knew from hearsay.

  • Loading lists on paper

    The state of a tour lived on printouts that were stale after the first incident.

  • Questions over the radio

    Anyone who wanted to know how far a tour had progressed had to interrupt exactly the people doing the loading.

  • No view of the state

    Whether one more shipment would still go on was decided at the gate instead of on a screen.

What we built

One list instead of many slips

A digital loading list per tour, one scan per package when staging and when loading, guided workflows for damage and shortages – and a digital twin of the hall where dispatch sees every tour in its loading section. Built during live operation: what went in at night was on trial in the next morning's shift.

The digital twin: tours, fill levels and reports on one screen.
  • ReferenceDaily

    in production at ZUFALL

    Pollux carries the loading process in regular operation – not as a test install.

  • RolloutNetwork-wide

    in use

    From the pilot site outward: connected branches work from the same digital loading list.

The internal tool became a product

Pollux carries the daily loading at ZUFALL and is available as a product in its own right – licence model included.