Route Optimization

Through route optimization, companies operating fleets can benefit from financial savings, improved customer services and simplified operations. Increase your productivity. More visits, more deliveries. Decrease resource requirements and fewer vehicles. Control your process and reduce planning time. TourSolver allows the evaluation of manually prepared routes and the ability to prepare optimized routes. The optimization routes takes into account various customer characteristics (ie: quantity to be delivered, day of delivery etc.) as well as resource characteristics (ie: load capacity, hours of operation, permitted overtime etc.).

Daily Questions How to compare forecasted plannings and actual driven routes ? How to include last minute visits in planned schedules ? Can driven distance be reduced ? How to reorganize the routes without jeopardizing the internal organization ? How to perform all my visits with fewer vehicles ?

Complexities Optimize the vehicle load Should you subcontract your fleet ? Contact Mr. Jones urgently Avoid wasted time Vehicle not available o

Objectives Financial Savings Better Cost Control Mechanism Improved Customer Service Simplified Operations

Integration with operations Delivery Request Customer inquiries Delivery inquiries Ad-hoc orders Delivery Routing/Scheduling Scheduled deliveries Ad-Hoc deliveries Available resources Prepare delivery trip-sheets Delivery Vehicle Loading Warehouse pick lists Optimized delivery loading

Process 02/09/09 Easy to implement Fast ROI Customers Resources Geography Planning Reports Directions

Required Information 02/09/09 Resources Customers

Customer Data Time control data Visit time windows (customer availability) Punctuality, delay penalty Fixed and per unit unloading time Existing route comparison data Resource identification Visit sequence number Assignment to a specific resource Visit control data Quantities (up to 8 dimensions or products) Possible visit days Requested characteristics (skills, type of vehicle, …) Customer location (automatic geocoding)

Resource data Time control data Working time, lunch break Driver hours legislation Overtime periods Fixed and per unit loading time Cost control data Distance, hours cost, night breaks Fixed costs Overtime costs Visit control data Capacities (up to 8 dimensions or products) Resource working days Resource characteristics (skills, type of vehicle, …) Multiple depot locations

Results Planning, directions and mileage charts Excel, Word, Text formats Individual or All tours Map displays Detailed or synoptic directions Individual or All tours Manual Adjustments Visit/Resource data and Recalculation Accurate Customer Locations (X,Y coordinates) Interface to Real-time AVL services

Savings/Benefits Savings Scheduling Planning time reduction Fleet operations Mileage reduction Customer fill-in ratio Overtime reduction Warehouse operations Optimized loading directions Benefits Improved quality of customer service Improved compliance to instructions Improved sizing of the vehicle fleet Accuracy of customer locations

Next Steps Required customer delivery data Customer name or identifier Customer street address (delivery address) Estimated time to perform the delivery at the customer site Delivery sequence number Delivery cycle start and end times (assume no overtime allowed) Lunch time and duration by vehicle Vehicle capacity by vehicle type (estimated) Vehicle kilometers per delivery cycle What DigiMap will do Enter the data into TourSolver Evaluate your existing routes (produce equivalent trip-sheets) Optimize the routes (produce revised trip-sheets) Evaluation + Optimization = $avings 02/09/09

Why Microsoft MapPoint ? Functionality and geographical coverage Integration capability Price Dynamic link with source file

For more information, contact: Peter Luebke Senior GIS Manager DigiMap [email_address]

Route Optimization

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