EPG’s Software Wins Benelux Enterprise Award 2025

The EPG (Ehrhardt Partner Group) has been awarded the Benelux Enterprise Award 2025 in the category “Supply Chain Tech Innovation of the Year” for its route planning and optimization software Greenplan. The jury particularly recognized the measurable contribution of the solution to more efficient logistics processes and sustainable transport planning.

(Boppard-Buchholz) The award honors companies that create economic momentum in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg through innovation, digitalization, and sustainability. The accolade also underscores the increasing importance of intelligent route optimization in times of growing urbanization and tightly scheduled delivery windows.

Greenplan was developed to answer one of the central questions of modern logistics: How can tours be planned economically, resource-efficiently, and practically? To this end, Greenplan takes into account a multitude of real-world influencing factors in every calculation, from time-dependent traffic flows to delivery time windows, individual restrictions, and seasonal fluctuations. The special feature: Greenplan not only determines the shortest route but also the most realistic one. The underlying dynamic algorithm can adjust the solution in real-time to changed conditions, such as traffic jams, new orders, or weather-related delays—handling thousands of changes per minute. Companies benefit from reliable planning, higher utilization, and significantly reduced empty kilometers. “Greenplan is based on decades of logistics experience and mathematical precision,” explains Carolin Pieper, route planning expert at Greenplan. “The solution demonstrates how data intelligence can be directly translated into efficiency and sustainability.”

Sustainability as a Central Decision Criterion

A key decision criterion for the award was the sustainable benefit of the software. By reducing unnecessary travel distances and vehicle deployments, Greenplan directly contributes to lowering CO₂ emissions, fuel consumption, and noise pollution. At the same time, it alleviates traffic infrastructure and improves the quality of life in urban areas.

The social component is also playing an increasingly important role: Through smarter route planning, working hours are distributed more evenly, overtime is reduced, and stressful situations are minimized, a factor that positively impacts the job satisfaction of drivers and dispatchers. “Our vision is a logistics that combines economic efficiency with social responsibility,” Pieper continues. “Greenplan helps our customers to implement this balance measurably.”

Continuous Development with a Focus on Practicality

EPG is consistently further developing Greenplan and works closely with customers, partners, and research institutions. Recent enhancements include precise cost allocation per shipment in postal and parcel networks, intelligent optimization of refueling and loading breaks, and an expanded driver app that integrates all route information and real-time feedback directly. “We understand innovation not as a completed process but as continuous development,” emphasizes Dr. Clemens Beckmann, CEO of Greenplan. “Our goal is to solve the real challenges of our customers with practical technology and thereby create measurable added value for the economy and the environment.”

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