[ICS] Transportation Package

[ICS] Transportation Package was developed for Microsoft Dynamics 365 SCM end-users: manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, logistics service providers and other companies that operate complex logistics/delivery networks and look to optimize their transportation processes to achieve lower operating costs, better performance, and improved customer service.

The Package allows to achieve this objective in an easy to use yet flexible, functional way. It fully integrates into the Transportation Management (TMS) module and further expands its functionality with a host of unique tools for last mile and line-haul delivery automation.

The Package includes the following solutions:

Optimal Route Building Solution

• Build in real time an optimal delivery route and perform its visual analysis

Transport Routing Solution

• Plan cargo trips for a large number of orders for delivery by vehicles with different carrying capacities

Multi-Echelon Delivery Network Solution

• Plan and optimize transportation routes in a multi-echelon delivery network

Mobile Application for Drivers

• Access all necessary cargo and delivery information in a mobile app, view the created routes and synchronize the data with your GPS navigator

Key Features:

• New functionality that introduces logistic hub masters and allows to associate each delivery address with a hub master
• Supply chain visualization to display logistic hub masters on a map
• Integration with cartographic services (OSRM, Mapbox, HERE) to obtain transit time/distance between logistic hub masters
• New functionality that introduces geofences where logistic hub masters are attached to their respective geofence
• New functionality for maintaining data about vehicles, their capacity (weight, volume) and assigning carrier’s service to each vehicle
• Vehicle tours calculation for the pool of open sales/purchase orders
• New rate engines and a new rate engine framework to simplify new rate engines development
• Two-purpose routes: one for transportation cost calculation, second for transportation fulfilment
• 4 new trip calculation strategies are supported (volumetric weight, number of containers, normalized number of containers, volume weight)
• Possibility to calculate trips by dividing orders according to geofences
• Possibility to build trips manually using Load Planning Workbench
• Possibility to reserve vehicles for trips manually using a Gantt chart
• Visualization of calculated optimal routes and trips
• Milkrun routes and vehicle assignment for milkrun routes
• Ease of use through smooth and seamless integration with D365 SCM

Some typical benefits that companies can achieve with [ICS] Transportation Package include:

• Considerable reduction in route planning time
• Greatly simplified overall workflow
• Decreased operating costs through reduction in mileage, driving time and the number of vehicles used (and/or driver shifts)
• Improved customer service