Software sought for optimizing cardboard box structure

We are a large international company (logistics service provider, intralogistics) and are looking for software to optimize our cardboard box structure for the 3PL industry. We handle at least 100,000 packages per month and our annual volume is around 3 million packages. We serve a wide range of customers, from large customers and retailers to smaller and small commercial customers, as well as B2C.

In terms of requirements, we have the following ideas for the solution we are looking for:

We need software that allows us to increase the fill level in our packages (packages). We are open to a software partnership in the form of a license or cooperation/outsourcing.

The primary goal of our problem and your software is to improve our customers' cardboard packaging structure. Based on the optimal cardboard cut and distribution calculated by your software, we want to achieve an improvement in the fill rate and/or optimization of the cardboard packaging portfolio. In layman's terms, we want to reduce the amount of air in our packages.

The software should determine the most suitable cardboard cut for our packages based on our cardboard restrictions and delivery data from single-liner and multi-liner orders. Based on your optimization results, the new frequency distribution of the cardboard cutouts used, the (changed) filling level, and the unused volume per cutout should be displayed.

Typical questions in our projects are:

• What effects does a reduction or increase in the number of cardboard cutouts have on the filling level?
• What effects do changes in the cut-to-size geometry (LxWxH) of the cardboard boxes currently used have (brownfield approach)?
• What are the optimal “n” cardboard box cut-to-size pieces, taking into account the smallest and largest boxes and a maximum number “n” of permitted cardboard box cut-to-size pieces?

The data provided by us is:

• The material master (e.g., ID, material, geodata (LxWxH), weight, product category, etc.)
• Historical order lines
• Currently used cardboard box portfolio
• Additional cardboard box restrictions, such as smallest box, largest box, etc.

Additional requirements:

• Must be able to process large amounts of data
• Remote access
• SAP connection, nice to have

Two to ten software workstations are planned, depending on the software costs and the contract. Work will be carried out in an MS Windows system landscape.