Transportation Management
Appian
Partner Overview
Trimble supplies end-to-end solutions for transportation companies including full truckload (FTL) and less than truckload (LTL) carriers, 3PLs, final-mile carriers and shippers.
Trimble Maps & Applications for Professional Solutions (Trimble Maps) provides fleet and route optimization solutions through its Appian Software Vehicle Routing and Scheduling solution, focused on private and dedicated fleets.
The Appian suite of solutions contain operational workflow capabilities that support daily route optimization, automated dispatch, live planned vs. actual visibility, driver ePOD, navigation, automated customer notifications, and business intelligence reporting.
Appian Daily Planner is a web-based solution that enables customers to easily optimize their daily routes and improve asset utilization to help them reduce unnecessary transportation spend.
It's highly configurable, user-friendly interface is ideal for customers with varying routing needs and preferences, and helps them make quick, efficient routing decisions to reduce planning time while adhering to customer constraints.
Benefits
- Cost savings - Route optimization enables fleets to reduce fuel consumption, vehicle wear and tear, and labor costs resulting in significant savings
- Improved customer service - Factor and optimize many delivery constraints, such as multiple customer delivery time windows or special equipment requirements, to provide faster, more reliable deliveries and increase customer satisfaction
- Increased efficiency - Streamline daily route planning, to improve overall efficiency through increased asset utilization
- Better, faster decision making - Robust decision assist capability, users can quickly determine the best, most cost-effective route placement for last minute stops
- Sustainability - Optimized routes can help reduce a fleet’s carbon footprint by lowering fuel consumption and emissions
Features
- Daily route planning. Develop optimal, cost-effective, multi-stop routes. Configure parameters such as time windows, capacity and costing
- Supports fixed, dynamic or hybrid routing approaches
- Leverage strategic planning to build master fixed routes and model what-if analysis scenarios
- Real-time planned vs. actual route tracking and monitoring with advanced customer email and text message delivery notifications
Details
- Category: Transportation Management
- Solution type: Integration
- Required software: Verizon Connect Reveal
- Supported region: Global
- Language: English
- By: Trimble