FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Contents Definition

Field Of Application

Route Planning

GPS Tracking

Advantages

DefinitionFleet Management comprises the target-

oriented, optimal planning, supervision and control of the fleet operations based on the available resources, considering internal and external influencing factors. A special focus is on the integration of organizational processes with modern information systems.

Fields Of ApplicationObject tracking (vehicle tracking)Health and safety trackingFuel and speed managementSales order transmissionRoute planningDriver ManagementVehicle diagnostics

Route PlanningRoute Planning serves to arrange different

transport orders to tours of a vehicle fleet.The most known Route Planning problems are:

The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) (only one vehicle) the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) the Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP)

Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP)

Goal: Find the shortest way of a circular tour (starting

point = end point) that is as cost effective as possible that visits a certain amount of customers exactly once.

Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)

The VRP is an extension of the TSP in which various vehicles are available at a depot.

The VRP is therefore a combined assignment- and circular tour-problem.

Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP)In PDP, consignments are picked up at one place

and transported to their destination.The PDP is an amplified VRP Pick up locations and the destinations have to be

in the same tourFull-Truckload PDP

Route PlanningDYNAMIC ROUTE

PLANNINGSTATIC ROUTE

PLANNING

New data can get known and already known data can change

All relevant data is known before the planning starts

Timely close decisions are more important than the once more remote in time

Same importance of decisions that are close or remote in time

Only little time for verification, manual correction and implementation of changed route plans

Enough time for the creation, verification and the implementation of route plans

Location-Tracking

Location-tracking helps companies to streamline and control supply chains move products to the market faster monitor assets prevent inventory loss track vehicle fleets

Location tracking is not one, single technology.Local Area & Indoor Tracking

RFID: Small, battery-less microchips is attached to consumer goods, vehicles, objects to track movements.

Wide Area TrackingGPS: Signals received from Satellites to track movements of

objects moving great distances.

Tracking Technologies: GPS TrackingEvery vehicle must be equipped with a GPS

receiver.As the vehicle moves around the world, satellites

track the vehicle’s position.Positioning can be requested at anytime.

AdvantagesImprove efficiency & productivityReduce operating costsSpeed up logistics activitiesTransparency of all the transport eventsAutomatic data transfer from the order entry

systemOptimal order distribution to the tours

(cost-, time and customer optimal)