ArcLogistics, The Routing And Scheduling Solution For Fleet Management

ESRI has released a new white paper which provides an insight into ArcLogistics.

The white paper provides an introduction to ArcLogictics, talking about some of the key features and advanced solver functionality, street data options, application framework and system requirements.

ESRI® ArcLogistics™ software is a complete solution for complex routing and scheduling problems and helps you minimize costs, maximize productivity, and improve customer service. Offering a quick and significant return on investment, ArcLogistics lends itself to fleet management across all organizations including food and beverage, manufacturing and delivery, local governments, school districts, courier and messenger, and utilities and telecommunications.

Some of the key features of ArcLogistics include:

• Ability to use your own street data including any network restrictions and parameters
• Option to purchase high-quality street data for either Europe or the USA and Canada
• Builds routes based on network drive times, distances, and restrictions, not straight-line distances
• Takes into account specialties of vehicles and orders
• Imports customer orders from any Open Database Connectivity-compliant database
• Geocodes customer addresses
• Ability to use your own geographic data
• Outputs route summary reports, detailed and overview maps, street-level directions, driver manifests, and more
• Outputs routes and schedules to other GIS-based applications
• Integrates with automatic vehicle location (AVL), vehicle navigation, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, warehouse management,accounting, and route accounting systems, as well as other enterprise technologies

This white paper is a great read for those looking at ArcLogistics and wanting further information on the topic. You can find the white paper here: http://feeds.esri.com/…