Transportation Planning
The programming of the transport is a critical process for maintaining a good level of service while reducing transportation costs.
Companies must therefore be prepared to manage complex networks transport large volumes of orders, adapting to the changing needs related to delivery management. Transport planning solutions manage the transformation of the supply and delivery plans in transportation programs, cost-optimized, using configurable business rules in order to conform to the constraints generated by the infrastructure of the extended supply chain. The transportation programs must be physically and operationally executable acceptable: they must consider delivery commitments agreed with customers, product availability and other variables from the field, minimizing human intervention and manual examination.
Transport Planning Software Service has developed procedures and tools to support in a timely and effective planning and design:
- Identify and verify the most efficient solutions in relation to demand to be served
- Better use of available resources
- Define a time-efficient timing of implementation
There are various Transportation Planning Software Solution available at reasonable prices with very useful and effective features like:
- Ability to add new shipping addresses to existing routes.
- Program calculates the cost of tolls and toll kilometers
- Route optimization based on vehicle capacity (indicating overload based on the weight, volume, the pallets, empty trips)
- Opening and closing times of the deposit and the accessibility of customers
- Dynamic linking to external database (SQL, Access, Excel, Outlook, Oracle) for import, integration and positioning on the map of addresses of customers, suppliers and warehouses
- Commands directly in Word and Excel to calculate the distance for the mapping of the transfer and delivery addresses to map & guide for transport planning of the round, sending e-mail and print itineraries and maps.
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