OR/MS Today, February 2008
Vehicle Routing Software Survey
Table 15
| Product | What is the largest change in the industry over the last two years? | What do you expect to be the biggest change in the next two years? |
| Descartes Routing & Scheduling | ||
| Direct Route | Affordable GPS real-time tracking and reporting. | Web services integration availability, increased demand for real time actual vs. plan delivery information enabling more visibility by the enterprise. |
| DISC | Greater integration along the supply chain and across transport networks, which leads to a demand for more powerful and flexible optimisation solutions. | Increased expectations in terms of optimisation performance and flexibility. |
| ILOG Dispatcher | ||
| JOpt.SDK | Since seamless integrated software become | We believe that Software as a Service (SaaS) will even gain more importance in the near future. Therefore we are about to launch a SOA VRP plattform that allows to access VRP/VRPTW functions as a web service. |
| Optrak4 Vehicle Routing & Scheduling | ||
| ORTEC Routing and Scheduling | Fleet cost, dynamic sourcing for bulk industries, i/b, o/b planning. | Utilization of Logistics Solutions. |
| Paragon Routing and Scheduling System | Increased maturity of vehicle tracking technology, facilitating reliable int | A general increase in the deployment of routing and scheduling optimisation systems driven by increased pressure on reducing Carbon emissions, in tandem with cutting fuel costs and increasing fleet productivity. |
| Prophesy Total Transportation System | more computerized approch to customer service | More of the same. |
| PTM Pro Online, Pupil Transportation Manager | Immediate access to stakeholder information over the Internet. Reduction in data duplication and redundancy (data sharing). Increased use of sensor and locational technologies. | Selling solutions first, matching the technology second. Solutions that respect the needs and capacity of school bo |
| REACT | The largest change i | Greater availability of real-time information and higher expectation to use this information for route planning and scheduling. |
| Roadnet Anywhere | The need for smaller fleets and fleets outside of traditional industries to use the same technology as larger fleets to remain competitive and provide exceptional customer service. | Changes in the way applications are deployed to the different sets of end-users. Hosted (ASP) models will become more prevalent. |
| Roadnet Transportation Suite | Using transportation information to initiate chage in business processes outside of distribution. | Additional information to integrate into and consider into the routing and dispatching problem. |
| STARS 5.0 | integration of real-time tracking systems, deployment of vehicle routing systems at large carriers over hub-and-spoke networks, wider usage of ASP applications | increased usage of ASP applications, integration with cell phones and PDA, and real-time information over internet |
| StreetSync Desktop | ||
| The LogiX Suite | Saas | Migration to SaaS |
| TourSolver for MapPoint / MapInfo Pro | ||
| TruckStops Routing and Scheduling Software |
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