Trip Planner Add-On
Effective scheduling of vehicle trips with SAP Business One at its core
Purpose
Clockwork’s Trip Planner Add-On supports in efficient scheduling of the dispatch vehicle trips based on the orders volume and the distance of the delivery sites.
Business Challenges the Add-on Addresses
Businesses face challenges of managing the vehicles (inhouse and outsourced) and dispatches e.g. sometimes two vehicles are allotted the same route owing to unavailability of centralized organized data leading to improper planning. In a nutshell here are a few challenges:
- Ensuring timely delivery
- Assigning the right vehicle based on the load
- Effective routing
- Avoidance of repeating the vehicles for a given route
- Avoiding last minute delivery rush
Solution that the Trip Planner Add-On offers
- Definition of Route Names and area Names / zip codes
- Mapping of Customer addresses with predefined Area Names / zip Codes
- Definition of Vehicle Masters with capacity and type of Vehicle
- A Custom screen loads all the Orders pertaining to a Route which contains multiple Areas / Zip codes
- Segregation of Items depending on the nature of material for example refrigerated item, regular item etc.
- Presentation of total weight of the Items based on the item type so that correct vehicle is assigned
- Complete automation of vehicle assignment
Outcome / Business Benefits of Trip Planner Add-On
- Effective vehicle assignment leading to delivery time optimization
- Ensuring delivery schedules are aligned with customers’ expectations
- Cost-effective deliveries
- Effective scheduling activities of warehousing, loading bay, dispatch etc.
- Complete visibility and tracking of orders and stock availability on a real time basis
- Reconciliation of dispatches and returns is simplified.
- Monitoring of vehicles and their mileage
