Roadnet. Planning for Transportation Success

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1 Roadnet Planning for Transportation Success

2 Profitable Distribution, Each Day To someone on the outside it looks like the same route every day. But in managing your company s delivery operations, you know differently. Every morning, it s a different road one with the potential to throw off your deliveries in a thousand different ways, driving up costs and driving down service. All it takes is a driver out sick, a big customer calling up with a delivery request, a sudden change in weather, or a five-mile backup, and you can be looking at one very bad day. The key is flexibility having the means to foresee and adapt to any possible threat to your distribution schedule and goals on a daily basis. Now that competitive edge is yours every delivery day with Roadnet from UPS Logistics Technologies. Optimize Your Routing And Scheduling Today Using Roadnet can help you: Dramatically reduce miles driven, fuel spending and driver overtime to build greater profitability Measure driver performance on a daily basis with clearly defined itineraries, manifests, maps and directions Maximize driver and equipment productivity while adhering to new hours of service regulations Meet and exceed customer service expectations by seamlessly converting exceptions into opportunities Assess delivery costs for profitability by drilling down to actual costs per stop Work smarter by investing fewer hours in route planning and more time in strategic forecasting Explore what-if critical scenarios to plan in advance for the unexpected Capture customized daily reports and vital historical data

3 Roadnet Roadnet gives my department the ability to route more efficiently, cutting run time and transportation costs, while staying within the limits of DOT laws. Leo Farber, Routing Manager SYSCO Baltimore Take Charge Of Everyday Delivery Operations From the moment you and your dispatchers start to use Roadnet, you re in total control. This versatile enterprise or stand alone solution gives you an effective, tactical routing tool to optimize daily delivery operations in just minutes, not hours. Integrating Roadnet with your existing operation is painless as a multi-user system running on a relational database; it works seamlessly with your existing order entry and host systems, as well with all other Roadnet Transportation Suite products. Overall, Roadnet offers you the ability to transform today s orders into tomorrow s routes, locking in the highest number of efficiencies to improve customer service while reducing costs. In fact, Roadnet typically delivers ROI within its first year of deployment, simply by helping you minimize excessive mileage, fuel costs, high overtime, inefficient resource utilization and missed customer time windows. Roadnet users consistently cut their annual delivery costs by as much as 5 to 15 percent. Make Your Routes The Best They Can Be When your customer database is first imported, Roadnet geocodes and stores every account by its exact address. This data, when compared to your actual road network, lets Roadnet optimize the fastest and most precise travel times and distances factoring in such issues as speed limits, turn restrictions and rush hours in advance. In addition, by continually updating its map databases, Roadnet assures you the most mapping information at all times. Adding a customer? Roadnet can instantly integrate new accounts into your current delivery network by attaching your customers to the closest street segment, ensuring accuracy. Find The Right Plan For Your Business Every day, when your host system uploads your next-day deliveries, Roadnet generates and displays a set of routes that are optimized and balanced for the highest degrees of customer service and delivery profitability. But that s only half of the picture. Roadnet can help you customize your distribution network even further, no matter its size or complexity. By tapping into Roadnet s advanced algorithms and custom street-level routing passes, you can quickly generate a range of unique routing assignments to fit your company s particular criteria. Revise your routes to account for whatever variables you determine, including preferred start/close times, maximum route duration, vehicle and driver allocation, time window requirements and other special rules up to a maximum of 999 separate routing passes. Plus, Roadnet can easily handle such daily exceptions like route reloads; off-day deliveries, extended runs and more. You can even create what-if crisis scenarios to plan for possible emergencies, holidays or inclement weather. Throughout this planning process, Roadnet can quickly accommodate whatever new ideas you may have regarding route changes. Simply input your change to the route in questionand it s recalibrated and displayed instantly. Move a stop from one route to another, put larger accounts onto preferred routes, flip or change the

4 Successful Deliveries Everyday. With Roadnet, you can plan for today with the unique ability to access a top-down view of every intended delivery route. As this sample screen shows, Roadnet lets you view all of the particulars of your active next-day deliveries, including equipment, travel times, and exceptions. In addition, you can zoom in on the specific details of any one delivery itinerary, and even generate a dynamic map view of that delivery route that clearly pinpoints each stop. Get the most ROI out of every route, every day with Roadnet s Suggest Route application. This powerful feature allows you to insert unassigned stops into the most appropriate route in your territory, based upon whatever parameters that you set. So, instead of losing money on orphan stops, you re generating added revenue. If you like, Roadnet can even assess and place unassigned stops in the best routes for you. delivery sequence, or add a group of stops. Roadnet can handle this and more. By having flexibility and control, Roadnet allows you to maintain consistent standards for your daily operations, providing your drivers with clear performance expectations for scheduling and sequencing. As a result, expenses due to driver overtime and excessive stop times become a thing of the past. Vehicle capacities and resource utilization increases. Customer service dramatically improves. In short, by minimizing costs and maximizing performance, your operation delivers more while driving less, every day.

5 Are you operating on plan and on budget? As one of Roadnet s most vital progress reports, Actual vs. Planned gives you a precise route-by-route comparison of successes and shortfalls. As this sample screen shows, actual stops are 100 percent on-plan; however, variances in service and travel time are also evident. As a result, you quickly can determine the real costs per stop on each route and even assess the particular costs per case or unit on a given load. With this level of detail at your fingertips, you can easily create a more accurate plan for tomorrow. Effectively Manage Your Merchandising Routes Want to better manage your growing number of merchandisers and provide enhanced customer service at the same time? With Roadnet, you can apply the same tactical controls for optimized routing and scheduling to your merchandising routes. Roadnet can create merchandiser routes that match your current driver routes, accounting for a merchandiser s planned delivery time and time window setup. It will then filter the day s orders and create only the merchandiser routes for those you select. You can even configure the time windows for your merchandiser to arrive exactly at the time your driver completes the specific customer stop. Roadnet also generates such critical information for your merchandisers as itineraries, driving directions and maps. The Information You Need Creating and monitoring benchmarks for your daily operations couldn t be easier with Roadnet. Choose from a broad selection of pre-formatted and easily customizable progress reports (or create your own) to track and evaluate every aspect of your daily deliveries and the costs involved. The Resource Utilization Report gives you the big picture on resource control including number of vehicles used, vehicle capacity and efficiency, vehicle costs per day and more over a defined time period. The Customer Delivery Cost Report monitors delivery cost by account over whatever time period you select. The Time Window Exception Report gauges your customer service levels by comparing your actual or planned delivery times with each customer s required time window, revealing your daily percentage of missed time windows. Other standard reporting features in Roadnet include: Driver manifests, maps, directions and itineraries Route summary statistics Off-day delivery exception report Actual versus planned by route and by stop reports

6 Supporting Your Every Move When you work with Roadnet, you re also working with UPS Logistics Technologies, an industry leader of delivery management solutions. As a business unit of UPS, we have a solid reputation, financial stability and the tools needed to ensure results. Through our evolving Roadnet Transportation Suite, we continue to deliver on that promise, through global solutions that integrate territory planning, street-level route optimization, mobile delivery execution, real-time wireless dispatch and GPS tracking. With this comprehensive set of fully integrated applications, your logistics staff can quickly take control over every aspect of your order-to-delivery process. Today, you ll find our products in daily use at more than 3,500 locations worldwide, optimizing delivery logistics and management of over 154,000 vehicles. UPS Logistics Technologies also provides you and your employees with dedicated customer service 24/7, 365 days a year, as well as specialized product training through onsite seminars or our Roadnet University. Whatever the hour, whatever the route, we ll make sure that your operations stay on plan with your goals. For more information: UPS Logistics Technologies 849 Fairmount Avenue, Suite 400 Baltimore, MD toll free roadnet@ups.com Copyright 2008 United Parcel Service of America, Inc. UPS, the UPS brandmark and the color brown are trademarks of United Parcel Service of America, Inc. All rights reserved. PL02 B 12/08