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