Scheduling, Routing, and Dispatching

Ivan Smith Furniture optimizes delivery routes with GIS.

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New Book from Esri Press Designing Geodatabases for Transportation details enterprise GIS design for managing transportation systems.

Fleet and dispatch managers need to know when, where, and how quickly tasks are completed to keep operations running smoothly and at lowest cost. GIS technology helps you manage these business processes with real-time tracking, scheduling, and optimum routing tools. You can also build location-based applications for sales force, field service, and field force automations.

Specialized Esri software helps you

• Audit and measure mobile workforce productivity.
• Meet customer time windows.
• Route workers correctly.
• Integrate location into short messaging alert notifications and e-mail.

Esri routing technology offers a choice of two applications.

• ArcLogistics—An easy-to-install, low-cost routing application that can be expanded via plug-ins available from Esri or Esri business partners.
• ArcGIS Network Analyst—Enables customized routing solutions that run on individual machines or provide Web-based access. With GIS-based modeling, you can calculate accurate drive times based on realistic network conditions, a key factor for precise routing, scheduling, and optimization.

Success Stories

See how logistics agencies benefit from the use of geographic analysis and GIS.

• ArcLogistics Optimizing Routing and Scheduling [VIDEO]
• Optimizing Delivery Routes at Productos Ramo
• Ivan Smith Furniture Reduces Miles Driven [PDF]

Take a look at case studies, demos, and books and white papers.