Fleet Management: Finding the Best Combination of Transportation Resources
To contain sharply rising transportation costs, many shippers augment their use of traditional commercial carriers with private and dedicated fleets. Combining the two and managing them efficiently requires a single workflow to plan orders and minimize transportation costs.
Manhattan Associates' Fleet Management enables you to optimize profitability for all transportation resources without compromising efficiency and quality. The solution automatically recommends the optimal route, driver, tractor and trailer based on hours of service, availability, compliance, seniority and service needs.
To solve your transportation optimization challenges, Fleet Management gives you strong feature sets for two processes—Shipment Planning and Dispatch Re-Optimization:
- Shipment Planning is designed to create efficient loads within the scheduling process and recommend resources for those loads. The resulting plans, which encompass driver, tractor and trailer assignments, maximize utilization of these resources while minimizing transportation costs.
- Dispatch Re-Optimization continuously updates resource assignments with the latest information on resources and loads.
Both processes use the same dispatch optimization model to create the most efficient run combination for the day. If fleet resources are insufficient, Shipment Planning will issue a warning and display how much hired resources are needed. Dispatch Re-Optimization will alert you if initial fleet resources are no longer available.
Manage the Mix for Maximum Results
Fleet Management gives you the means to plan the use of common carriers and private/dedicated fleets—and to gain holistic visibility into your combined resources. Here are some of the benefits you will see:
- Optimal use of both private and dedicated fleet
- Integrated evaluation of costs and constraints
- Flexibility to tailor costs and benefits to your transportation network
- More effective dock scheduling
- Enhanced decision support
- Better ability to manage exceptions
- Real-time alerts
- Enhanced driver support tools
Explore the Transportation Lifecycle Management process - click the diagram below for an interactive approach to understanding Manhattan's solution.
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