Routing and Scheduling

Enterprise Transport Management has successfully interfaced to a number of Route Optimising solutions, and to date these include:-

• Paragon
• Truckstops
• DPS
• MTM (Manugistics)

Orders are fed into these systems and the Visual Planner (ESP) then accepts their suggested plans of activity. Orders are automatically presented on the Gantt Planning screen either

1. in the grouped order well if a resource hasn’t been allocated
2. or directly onto the Gantt if it has been allocated a resource.

The method that the Route Optimising solutions use to create their plans can vary and will be dependant on rules that you have defined. The rules can be as simple or complex as required, and are based on the number of constraints you wish to build into the matrix.

For example these rules can be order driven, contract or generally business driven and variations can include:-

• Optimum route for a small batch of orders or specific contract
• Best route to achieve maximum utilisation of the fleet
• Optimum route at minimal cost

These can still be changed once the planned activity is fed back to ESP.