| Critical Performance Gap in the Freight Transportation | | | | It's like being told that it is raining at the moment it |
| Bussiness- The Last Mile | | | | begins to rain, without supplying you with theumbrella |
| Enterprises that depend on transportation, or who are | | | | necessary to keep you dry. Knowing where the fleet |
| in the business of transportation, have invested heavily | | | | is currently positioned provides limited value to |
| in computingplatforms that enable better management | | | | Dispatchers duringexecution. The real value they seek |
| of the overall supply chain up to their warehouse | | | | is in knowing how to deploy/redeploy assets based on |
| docks. However, these systems providelittle control or | | | | accurate future predictions of where theywill be given |
| visibility into what happens when orders leave the | | | | current conditions, and if they will be on time for their |
| shipping dock and are delivered to customers. | | | | deliveries. |
| It's that last mile of delivery that matters most: it's then | | | | Make Tomorrow's Performance Better than Today's. |
| that your business is most vulnerable. This is where the | | | | The power to improve tomorrow's last-mile |
| real worldand unpredictable conditions can mean the | | | | performance based on real-time analysis of the fleet's |
| difference between on-time delivery and revenue for | | | | performance today offerssignificant profit potential, |
| your fleet, or delays, added costs,and strained | | | | incremental efficiency, and better customer satisfaction |
| customer relations. What has been lacking is a system | | | | every day. You need a system that can |
| that actively manages the gap between the | | | | makepredictions based upon an intelligent |
| warehouse and thecustomer; a system that enables | | | | scenario-based approach of identifying what would |
| the control and management of business profitability in | | | | most likely happen given various situationsand |
| this last, but critical stage of ordermanagement. | | | | conditions, while keeping profitability, on-time delivery, |
| Prior generations of systems attempting to address | | | | and customer satisfaction at the forefront. You need a |
| this gap have been limited to pre-day route planning | | | | system withthe ability to model dynamically, that |
| based on a hypotheticalassumption of what driving | | | | "learns" from the prior day's real-world events and the |
| conditions and driver performance might be like. The | | | | daily operation of vehicles,drivers, and conditions. |
| problem is, once the day begins, the real worldtakes | | | | The Real World Includes Your Computing Environment. |
| over. | | | | You've made significant investments in enterprise |
| Enterprises can now dramatically boost their | | | | resource planning platforms, supply chain management |
| profitability by managing the real-time performance of | | | | systems, and transportationmanagement systems, the |
| this last stage - this "lastmile" of delivery, with real-time | | | | real world of today's enterprise is one that has little |
| visibility and decision making. And, they can incorporate | | | | room or patience for added software or |
| today's real-world business experiencesinto | | | | lengthydevelopment and integration. More importantly, |
| tomorrow's transportation plan, ensuring that events | | | | your dispatch center is the nerve center of your fleet, |
| that took place the day before, produce a smarter, | | | | and improvements there willhave to add value rapidly, |
| more efficientoperation the next day. | | | | and be deployed in days or weeks, and certainly not |
| Real-Time Wireless Location Information Isn't Enough. | | | | require legions of consultants to design andcustomize |
| Wireless technology that tracks the location of | | | | a new system. In the real world of transportation |
| vehicles and the fleet only tells you where assets are, | | | | execution computing, you need a solution that rapidly |
| that's it. Without theability to transform that "location" | | | | deploys,seamlessly integrate within your dispatch |
| into a set of actionable decisions the increase your | | | | center, and deliver results with minimal assistance. |
| fleet's profitability and customerservice performance. | | | | |